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
2024
- Runt as Bernadette Box
- Boy Swallows Universe as Poppy Birkbeck
- ARK: The Animated Series as Deborah Walker (voice)
- Combat Wombat: Back 2 Back as Maggie Diggins (voice)
- Last Days of the Space Age as Eileen Wilberforce
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
- Combat Wombat as Maggie Diggins (voice)
- 2067 as Regina Jackson
- The Sound as Self - Co-Host
2019
- Total Control as Alex Irving
- Total Control as Alex Irving
2018
- Mystery Road as Kerry Thompson
- Bite Club as Anna Morton
2017
- A Few Less Men as Sergeant Simpson
- Little J and Big Cuz as Big Cuz (voice)
- 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
- Blinky Bill the Movie as Blinky's Mother (voice)
- Oddball as Mayor Lake / Narrator
- Redfern Now: Promise Me as Lorraine
2014
- Paper Planes as Maureen
- Jack Irish: Dead Point as Cynthia
2013
- The Darkside as Pamela
- Please Like Me as Siobhah
- It's a Date as Joanne
2012
- Mental as Sandra
- Mabo as Bonita Mabo
- Redfern Now as Lorraine
- The Sapphires as Gail
2010
2009
- Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation as Self - Contestant
- Bran Nue Dae as Roxanne
- The Graduate From Sudan as Self - Narrator
2008
- Rush as Gabe
2007
- Lucky Miles as Lisa (voice)
2006
- The Book of Revelation as Julie
- The Archive Project as Herself
- Going Bush
2002
- Australian Rules ... (Thanks)
- Rabbit-Proof Fence as Mavis
- Black Chicks Talking as Herself
2001
- The Secret Life of Us as Kelly Lewis
- Play School: Nursery Rhymes as Deborah
- The Monkey's Mask as Lou
1999
- Rove as Self
- Dear Claudia as Cathy
- The Third Note as Tina
1998
- Radiance as Nona
1976
- AACTA Awards as Self