Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
July 14, 1972
Place of Birth:
Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia
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Deborah Mailman
Biography
Deborah Jane Mailman, AM (born 14 July 1972) is an Aboriginal Australian television and film actress, and singer. She was the first Aboriginal actress to win the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, and has gone on to win four more both in television and film. The awards are now known as the AACTA Awards.
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Kangaroo | Rosie |
| 2024 | Combat Wombat: Back 2 Back | Maggie Diggins (voice) |
| 2024 | Runt | Bernadette Box |
| 2023 | The New Boy | Sister Mum |
| 2023 | Scarygirl | Treedweller (voice) |
| 2022 | Looking Black | Self |
| 2021 | H Is for Happiness | Penelope Benson |
| 2020 | 2067 | Regina Jackson |
| 2020 | Combat Wombat | Maggie Diggins (voice) |
| 2019 | Total Control | Alex Irving |
| 2017 | A Few Less Men | Sergeant Simpson |
| 2017 | Three Summers | Pam |
| 2015 | Blinky Bill the Movie | Blinky's Mother (voice) |
| 2015 | Oddball | Mayor Lake / Narrator |
| 2015 | Redfern Now: Promise Me | Lorraine |
| 2014 | Jack Irish: Dead Point | Cynthia |
| 2014 | Paper Planes | Maureen |
| 2013 | The Darkside | Pamela |
| 2012 | The Sapphires | Gail |
| 2012 | Mabo | Bonita Mabo |
| 2012 | Mental | Sandra |
| 2009 | Bran Nue Dae | Roxanne |
| 2009 | The Graduate From Sudan | Self - Narrator |
| 2007 | Lucky Miles | Lisa (voice) |
| 2006 | The Archive Project | Herself |
| 2002 | Rabbit-Proof Fence | Mavis |
| 2002 | Black Chicks Talking | Herself |
| 2001 | Play School: Nursery Rhymes | Deborah |
| 2001 | The Monkey's Mask | Lou |
| 1999 | Dear Claudia | Cathy |
| 1999 | The Third Note | Tina |
| 1998 | Radiance | Nona |
| Wolfram: A Sequel to Sweet Country |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | ARK: The Animated Series | Deborah Walker (voice) |
| 2024 | Last Days of the Space Age | Eileen Wilberforce |
| 2024 | Boy Swallows Universe | Poppy Birkbeck |
| 2023 | Australia's Wild Odyssey | Narrator (voice) |
| 2020 | The Sound | Self - Co-Host |
| 2019 | Total Control | Alex Irving |
| 2018 | Mystery Road | Kerry Thompson |
| 2018 | Bite Club | Anna Morton |
| 2017 | Little J and Big Cuz | Big Cuz (voice) |
| 2016 | Tomorrow When the War Began | Kath |
| 2016 | Cleverman | Aunty Linda |
| 2016 | Wolf Creek | Bernadette |
| 2016 | Jack Irish | Cynthia |
| 2013 | Please Like Me | Siobhah |
| 2013 | It's a Date | Joanne |
| 2012 | Redfern Now | Lorraine |
| 2010 | Offspring | |
| 2008 | Rush | Gabe |
| 2006 | Going Bush | |
| 2001 | The Secret Life of Us | Kelly Lewis |
| 1999 | Rove | Self |
| 1976 | AACTA Awards | Self |