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