Deborah Mailman
Acting • Born 1972-07-14
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
56 credits
Lucky Miles
Movie • 2007
Lisa (voice)
Combat Wombat: Back 2 Back
Movie • 2024
Maggie Diggins (voice)
The New Boy
Movie • 2023
Sister Mum
The Sapphires
Movie • 2012
Gail
The Darkside
Movie • 2013
Pamela
Jack Irish: Dead Point
Movie • 2014
Cynthia
Looking Black
Movie • 2022
Self
Scarygirl
Movie • 2023
Treedweller (voice)
Paper Planes
Movie • 2014
Maureen
Runt
Movie • 2024
Bernadette Box
Mabo
Movie • 2012
Bonita Mabo
Play School: Nursery Rhymes
Movie • 2001
Deborah
Dear Claudia
Movie • 1999
Cathy
Rabbit-Proof Fence
Movie • 2002
Mavis
Blinky Bill the Movie
Movie • 2015
Blinky's Mother (voice)
Oddball
Movie • 2015
Mayor Lake / Narrator
Radiance
Movie • 1998
Nona
Black Chicks Talking
Movie • 2002
Herself
A Few Less Men
Movie • 2017
Sergeant Simpson
Three Summers
Movie • 2017
Pam
H Is for Happiness
Movie • 2021
Penelope Benson
Redfern Now: Promise Me
Movie • 2015
Lorraine
Bran Nue Dae
Movie • 2009
Roxanne
2067
Movie • 2020
Regina Jackson
The Monkey's Mask
Movie • 2001
Lou
Combat Wombat
Movie • 2020
Maggie Diggins (voice)
The Archive Project
Movie • 2006
Herself
Mental
Movie • 2012
Sandra
Kangaroo
Movie • 2025
Rosie
The Graduate From Sudan
Movie • 2009
Self - Narrator
The Third Note
Movie • 1999
Tina
Wolfram
Movie • 2026
The Book of Revelation
Movie • 2006
Julie
The Secret Life of Us
TV • 2001
Kelly Lewis
Rush
TV • 2008
Gabe
ARK: The Animated Series
TV • 2024
Deborah Walker (voice)
Please Like Me
TV • 2013
Siobhah
Going Bush
TV • 2006
Offspring
TV • 2010
Tomorrow When the War Began
TV • 2016
Kath
Rove
TV • 1999
Self
Cleverman
TV • 2016
Aunty Linda
Last Days of the Space Age
TV • 2024
Eileen Wilberforce
Wolf Creek
TV • 2016
Bernadette
Mystery Road
TV • 2018
Kerry Thompson
Little J and Big Cuz
TV • 2017
Big Cuz (voice)
Bite Club
TV • 2018
Anna Morton
It's a Date
TV • 2013
Joanne
The Sound
TV • 2020
Self - Co-Host
AACTA Awards
TV • 1976
Self
Boy Swallows Universe
TV • 2024
Poppy Birkbeck
Total Control
TV • 2019
Alex Irving
Redfern Now
TV • 2012
Lorraine
Australia's Wild Odyssey
TV • 2023
Narrator (voice)
Jack Irish
TV • 2016
Cynthia
Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation
TV • 2009
Self - Contestant