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.
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Acting History
2025
Wolfram
2025Kangaroo as Rosie
2024Last Days of the Space Age as Eileen Wilberforce
2024Runt as Bernadette Box
2024ARK: The Animated Series as Deborah Walker (voice)
2024Combat Wombat: Back 2 Back as Maggie Diggins (voice)
2024Boy Swallows Universe as Poppy Birkbeck
2023Scarygirl as Treedweller (voice)
2023The New Boy as Sister Mum
2023Australia's Wild Odyssey as Narrator (voice)
2022Looking Black as Self
2021H Is for Happiness as Penelope Benson
2020Combat Wombat as Maggie Diggins (voice)
20202067 as Regina Jackson
2020The Sound as Self - Co-Host
2019Total Control as Alex Irving
2019Total Control as Alex Irving
2018Bite Club as Anna Morton
2018Mystery Road as Kerry Thompson
2017Three Summers as Pam
2017Little J and Big Cuz as Big Cuz (voice)
2017A Few Less Men as Sergeant Simpson
2016Cleverman as Aunty Linda
2016Wolf Creek as Bernadette
2016Tomorrow When the War Began as Kath
2016Jack Irish as Cynthia
2015Oddball as Mayor Lake / Narrator
2015Blinky Bill the Movie as Blinky's Mother (voice)
2015Redfern Now: Promise Me as Lorraine
2014Paper Planes as Maureen
2014Jack Irish: Dead Point as Cynthia
2013The Darkside as Pamela
2013It's a Date as Joanne
2013Please Like Me as Siobhah
2012Redfern Now as Lorraine
2012Mental as Sandra
2012The Sapphires as Gail
2012Mabo as Bonita Mabo
2010Offspring
2009The Graduate From Sudan as Self - Narrator
2009Bran Nue Dae as Roxanne
2009Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation as Self - Contestant
2008Rush as Gabe
2007Lucky Miles as Lisa (voice)
2006The Book of Revelation as Julie
2006The Archive Project as Herself
2006Going Bush
2002Black Chicks Talking as Herself
2002Rabbit-Proof Fence as Mavis
2001Play School: Nursery Rhymes as Deborah
2001The Secret Life of Us as Kelly Lewis
2001The Monkey's Mask as Lou
1999Rove as Self
1999The Third Note as Tina
1999Dear Claudia as Cathy
1998Radiance as Nona
1976AACTA Awards as Self