Deborah Mailman
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 57
Movies (34)
Wolfram2026Pansy
Kangaroo2025Rosie
Runt2024Bernadette Box
Combat Wombat: Back 2 Back2024Maggie Diggins (voice)
Scarygirl2023Treedweller (voice)
The New Boy2023Sister Mum
Looking Black2022Self
H Is for Happiness2021Penelope Benson
Combat Wombat2020Maggie Diggins (voice)
20672020Regina Jackson
Three Summers2017Pam
A Few Less Men2017Sergeant Simpson
Oddball2015Mayor Lake / Narrator
Blinky Bill the Movie2015Blinky's Mother (voice)
Redfern Now: Promise Me2015Lorraine
Paper Planes2014Maureen
Jack Irish: Dead Point2014Cynthia
The Darkside2013Pamela
Mental2012Sandra
The Sapphires2012Gail
Mabo2012Bonita Mabo
The Graduate From Sudan2009Self - Narrator
Bran Nue Dae2009Roxanne
Ralph2009Directing
Lucky Miles2007Lisa (voice)
The Book of Revelation2006Julie
The Archive Project2006Herself- Black Chicks Talking2002Herself
Rabbit-Proof Fence2002Mavis
Play School: Nursery Rhymes2001Deborah
Shows (23)
Last Days of the Space Age2024Eileen Wilberforce
ARK: The Animated Series2024Deborah Walker (voice)
Boy Swallows Universe2024Poppy Birkbeck
Australia's Wild Odyssey2023Narrator (voice)
The Sound2020Self - Co-Host
Total Control2019Alex Irving
Bite Club2018Anna Morton
Mystery Road2018Kerry Thompson
Little J and Big Cuz2017Big Cuz (voice)
Cleverman2016Aunty Linda
Wolf Creek2016Bernadette
Tomorrow When the War Began2016Kath
Jack Irish2016Cynthia
It's a Date2013Joanne
Please Like Me2013Siobhah
Redfern Now2012Lorraine
Offspring2010
Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation2009Self - Contestant
Rush2008Gabe
Going Bush2006
The Secret Life of Us2001Kelly Lewis
Rove1999Self
AACTA Awards1976Self