Deborah Mailman
Born: 1972-07-14 in Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2026
- Wolfram as Pansy
2025
- Kangaroo as Rosie
2024
- Boy Swallows Universe as Poppy Birkbeck
- ARK: The Animated Series as Deborah Walker (voice)
- Last Days of the Space Age as Eileen Wilberforce
- Runt as Bernadette Box
- Combat Wombat: Back 2 Back as Maggie Diggins (voice)
2023
- Scarygirl as Treedweller (voice)
- The New Boy as Sister Mum
- Australia's Wild Odyssey as Narrator (voice)
2022
- Looking Black as Self
2021
- H Is for Happiness as Penelope Benson
2020
- 2067 as Regina Jackson
- The Sound as Self - Co-Host
- Combat Wombat as Maggie Diggins (voice)
2019
- Total Control as Alex Irving
2018
- Mystery Road as Kerry Thompson
- Bite Club as Anna Morton
2017
- Little J and Big Cuz as Big Cuz (voice)
- A Few Less Men as Sergeant Simpson
- Three Summers as Pam
2016
- Jack Irish as Cynthia
- Wolf Creek as Bernadette
- Cleverman as Aunty Linda
- Tomorrow When the War Began as Kath
2015
- Oddball as Mayor Lake / Narrator
- Blinky Bill the Movie as Blinky's Mother (voice)
- Redfern Now: Promise Me as Lorraine
2014
- Paper Planes as Maureen
- Jack Irish: Dead Point as Cynthia
2013
- Please Like Me as Siobhah
- It's a Date as Joanne
- The Darkside as Pamela
2012
- Redfern Now as Lorraine
- The Sapphires as Gail
- Mental as Sandra
- Mabo as Bonita Mabo
2010
2009
- Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation as Self - Contestant
- Bran Nue Dae as Roxanne
- The Graduate From Sudan as Self - Narrator
- Ralph ... (Director)
2008
- Rush as Gabe
2007
- Lucky Miles as Lisa (voice)
2006
- The Book of Revelation as Julie
- Going Bush
- The Archive Project as Herself
2002
- Rabbit-Proof Fence as Mavis
- Australian Rules ... (Thanks)
- Black Chicks Talking as Herself
2001
- The Secret Life of Us as Kelly Lewis
- The Monkey's Mask as Lou
- Play School: Nursery Rhymes as Deborah
1999
- Rove as Self
- Dear Claudia as Cathy
- The Third Note as Tina
1998
- Radiance as Nona
1976
- AACTA Awards as Self