Deborah Mailman
Acting1972Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia
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
Acting History
2024
Combat Wombat: Back 2 Back
as Maggie Diggins (voice)
Runt
as Bernadette Box
ARK: The Animated Series
TVas Deborah Walker (voice)
Boy Swallows Universe
TVas Poppy Birkbeck
Last Days of the Space Age
TVas Eileen Wilberforce
2023
Scarygirl
as Treedweller (voice)
The New Boy
as Sister Mum
Australia's Wild Odyssey
TVas Narrator (voice)
2022
Looking Black
as Self
2021
H Is for Happiness
as Penelope Benson
2020
2019
Total Control
TVas Alex Irving
2018
Bite Club
TVas Anna Morton
Mystery Road
TVas Kerry Thompson
2017
2016
Tomorrow When the War Began
TVas Kath
Jack Irish
TVas Cynthia
Cleverman
TVas Aunty Linda
Wolf Creek
TVas Bernadette
2015
Redfern Now: Promise Me
as Lorraine
Oddball
as Mayor Lake / Narrator
Blinky Bill the Movie
as Blinky's Mother (voice)
2014
Paper Planes
as Maureen
Jack Irish: Dead Point
as Cynthia
2013
2012
2010
2009
Bran Nue Dae
as Roxanne
The Graduate From Sudan
as Self - Narrator
Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation
TVas Self - Contestant
Ralph
Director
Ralph
Writer
2008
Rush
TVas Gabe
2007
Lucky Miles
as Lisa (voice)
2006
2002
2001
1999
1998
Radiance
as Nona
1976
AACTA Awards
TVas Self