Martha Millan

Martha Millan is a Filipino-Australian actress best known for playing Fiona De La Rosa in the crime drama “The Cleaning Lady.” Born in the Philippines and raised in Australia, she studied at the University of Sydney before graduating from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, building a career that has spanned Australian, American and international productions.

On “The Cleaning Lady,” Millan plays Fiona, the cousin of Élodie Yung’s lead character — a warm, resilient figure who became one of the show’s emotional anchors across its multiple seasons and earned her honourable mentions from the Gracie Awards.

Beyond that series she joined the cast of Guy Ritchie’s Netflix crime comedy “The Gentlemen” as Mercy, and was cast as Faith Valentine in the Apple TV+ adaptation of “Cape Fear,” a project executive-produced by Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese.

Millan has also worked behind the camera, founding the production company Nice AF Productions to develop character-driven, inclusive stories; its first project, “Short Thin Lines,” has been in post-production. She has spoken publicly about the significance of portraying Filipino characters on mainstream American television.

Before her US breakthrough, Millan performed on stage and screen across Australia, developing the versatility that would define her later work. Her combination of dramatic depth and comic timing has allowed her to move between the grounded family drama of “The Cleaning Lady” and the stylised world of “The Gentlemen.”

With a background bridging Australian theatre and a Manhattan drama education, Millan represents a growing wave of Filipino-Australian talent finding prominent roles in US network and streaming series, and her steady rise has made her one of the more visible Filipino-Australian actresses working internationally today.

Her recognition through the Gracie Awards and her casting in high-profile projects such as “Cape Fear” signal a rising trajectory. As both a performer and a producer, Millan has positioned herself among a new generation of Asian and Pacific actors reshaping representation on English-language television, and she continues to take on roles that foreground Filipino stories and characters.