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Mawuyul Yanthalawuy is an Indigenous Australian educator and actor. Yanthalawuy, from
Elcho Island Elcho Island, known to its traditional owners as Galiwin'ku (Galiwinku) is an island off the coast of Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is located at the southern end of the Wessel Islands group located in the East Arnhem ...
in the Northern Territory, was teaching in a pre-school in Darwin when she was chosen to play the title role in the 1980 film ''
Manganinnie ''Manganinnie'' is an AFI Award-winning 1980 film which follows the journey of Manganinnie, a Tasmanian Aboriginal woman who searches for her tribe with the company of a lost white girl named Joanna. Based on Beth Roberts' novel of the same nam ...
''. She was nominated for an Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress for this debut performance. Her other film and television credits include '' Women of the Sun'' (
Penguin Award The Penguin Award is an annual award given for excellence in broadcasting by the Television Society of Australia. It was founded in 1954. The award trophy depicts an ear listening to a television tube, but strongly resembles a penguin, hence the ...
winner for Best Single Performance by an Actress in television), '' We of the Never Never'', ''
A Waltz Through the Hills ''A Waltz Through The Hills'' is a 1988 Australian-American made-for-television adventure drama film based on the novel of the same name by Gerald Glaskin. It is the story of two orphaned children who run away from their home in the Western Aus ...
'', and ''
Bedevil ''Bedevil'', stylised as ''beDevil'', is a 1993 Australian horror film directed by Tracey Moffatt, the first feature directed by an Australian Aboriginal woman. Plot The film is a trilogy of surreal ghost stories. Inspired by ghost stories she ...
''. Yanthalaway was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in the General Division (AM) in 1991 for service to education and to Aboriginal culture.


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* Australian film actresses Indigenous Australian actresses Living people Members of the Order of Australia Year of birth missing (living people) {{IndigenousAustralia-stub