Rachael Maza Long is an Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n actress, narrator and director. She is a Torres Strait Islander.

Maza Long has acted in film Radiance

Radiance (film)

Radiance is a 1998 Australian independent film. It is the first feature film by Aboriginal director Rachel Perkins about three indigenous sisters who reunite for their mother's funeral...

, on stage in The Sapphires

The Sapphires (play)

The Sapphires is an Australian play written by Tony Briggs and directed by Wesley Enoch. It is set in 1968 and it tells the story of The Sapphires, a singing group of four Koori women who tour Vietnam during the war.It was inspired by the true story of Briggs's mother, Laurel Robinson, and aunt,...

 and worked as a TV presenter on ABC

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as "the ABC" , is Australia's national public broadcaster...

's Message Stick

Message Stick

Message Stick is an Australian television series about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander lifestyles, culture and issues. It began screening in 1999 on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. It features features profile stories, interviews, video clips, short films and cooking segments.The...

 and SBS

Special Broadcasting Service

The Special Broadcasting Service is a hybrid-funded Australian public broadcasting radio and television network. The stated purpose of SBS is "to provide multilingual and multicultural radio and television services that inform, educate and entertain all Australians and, in doing so, reflect...

's ICAM. She is currently working as part of The Black Arm Band

The Black Arm Band

The Black Arm Band is a collection of some of Australia's premier Indigeous musicians. The band, conceived by Artistic Director Steven Richardson, was brought together "to perform, promote and celebrate contempary Australian Indigenous music". Members come from all over the country and have diverse...

 and as the director of Lou Bennett

Lou Bennett (musician)

Lou Bennett is an Indigenous Australian musician and actor.Bennett is a Yorta Yorta/Dja Dja Wurrung woman from Echuca.Bennett started her musical career with her uncle's band The Shades. She later joined Richard Frankland's band Djaambi where she met Sally Dastey and Amy Saunders. Bennett, Dastey...

's play Show Us Your Tiddas!

Show Us Your Tiddas!

Show Us Your Tiddas! is a play written and performed by Lou Bennett and directed by Rachael Maza.Show Us Your Tiddas! shares its name with the last album by Bennett's band Tiddas...

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She is the daughter of Bob Maza

Bob Maza

Robert "Bob" Lewis Maza was an Australian actor and playwright.Maza was born to a Murray Islander father and to a Yidinjdji mother.-Activism:...

, also an actor. Both father and daughter had roles in the Australian tv series Heartland

Heartland (Australian TV series)

Heartland was an Australian television drama series that ran on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1994. It ran for thirteen episodes and starred Cate Blanchett and Ernie Dingo...

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Maza has a son, Ariel, with partner and actor Tom Long

Tom Long (actor)

-Early life:Long was born on 3 August 1968 in the United States when his Australian parents were there at the time, and grew up on a farm near Benalla, Victoria...

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