Acting

Deborah Mailman

Born 1972-07-14 · 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.

Credits

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