Milan Murray

Margaretha Murray (stage name Milan Murray) (30 October 1974) is a South African actress and writer. She is most well known to the South African public for roles in various soap operas, but she has also played and starred in feature films, and regularly does stage performances. In addition, she co-anchors Ontbytsake, a weekly Breakfast show on kykNET, an Afrikaans channel on DStv. She lives in Johannesburg with her husband, Schalk van der Merwe, her son Steph and daughter Lua. She was raised in the Cape Province, South Africa. Milan studied Drama at the Pretoria Technicon, and also studied at certain studios in New York City, United States. Milan's big break took place in 1999 when she was cast a role in the South African soap opera, Isidingo: The Need. She portrayed a rebellious teenager named Dusty da Silva from 1998 to 2001, when she was written out of the series, but made a comeback portraying the same character as a university student from 2003 to 2004. Milan also played in two small horror films, Slash (about a band called "Slash", in which she plays Karen) and Snake Island (a horror film in which she plays Carrie). She played the romantic lead "Sage" in the M-Net film Murmur.