Deborah Mailman
July 14, 1972 (52 years old) in Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia
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
Credits
- 2024 · Last Days of the Space Age as Eileen Wilberforce
- 2024 · Runt as Bernadette Box
- 2024 · ARK: The Animated Series as Deborah Walker (voice)
- 2024 · Combat Wombat: Back 2 Back as Maggie Diggins (voice)
- 2024 · Boy Swallows Universe as Poppy Birkbeck
- 2023 · Scarygirl as Treedweller (voice)
- 2023 · The New Boy as Sister Mum
- 2023 · 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)
- 2020 · 2067 as Regina Jackson
- 2020 · The Sound as Self - Co-Host
- 2019 · Total Control as Alex Irving
- 2018 · Bluey as Sheepdog 1 (voice)
- 2018 · Bite Club as Anna Morton
- 2018 · Mystery Road as Kerry Thompson
- 2017 · Three Summers as Pam
- 2017 · Little J and Big Cuz as Big Cuz (voice)
- 2017 · A Few Less Men as Police Officer
- 2016 · Cleverman as Aunty Linda
- 2016 · Wolf Creek as Bernadette
- 2016 · Tomorrow When the War Began as Kath
- 2016 · Jack Irish as Cynthia
- 2015 · Oddball as Mayor Lake / Narrator
- 2015 · Blinky Bill the Movie as Blinky's Mother (voice)
- 2015 · Redfern Now: Promise Me as Lorraine
- 2014 · Paper Planes as Maureen
- 2014 · Jack Irish: Dead Point as Cynthia
- 2013 · The Darkside as Pamela
- 2013 · It's a Date as Joanne
- 2013 · Please Like Me as Siobhah
- 2012 · Redfern Now as Lorraine
- 2012 · Mental as Sandra
- 2012 · The Sapphires as Gail
- 2012 · Mabo as Bonita Mabo
- 2010 · Offspring as
- 2009 · Bran Nue Dae as Roxanne
- 2008 · Rush as Gabe
- 2007 · Lucky Miles as Lisa (voice)
- 2006 · The Archive Project as Herself
- 2006 · Going Bush as
- 2002 · Black Chicks Talking as Herself
- 2002 · Rabbit-Proof Fence as Mavis
- 2001 · Play School: Nursery Rhymes as Deborah
- 2001 · The Secret Life of Us as Kelly Lewis
- 2001 · The Monkey's Mask as Lou
- 1999 · Rove as Self
- 1999 · Dear Claudia as Cathy
- 1976 · AACTA Awards as Self
- Future · Kangaroo as Rosie
- 1998 · Radiance as Nona