Deborah Mailman
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.
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Movies (30)
Wolfram
2025
Kangaroo
as Rosie
2025
Runt
as Bernadette Box
2024
Combat Wombat: Back 2 Back
as Maggie Diggins (voice)
2024
Scarygirl
as Treedweller (voice)
2023
The New Boy
as Sister Mum
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
Total Control
as Alex Irving
2019
Three Summers
as Pam
2017
A Few Less Men
as Sergeant Simpson
2017
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
Mental
as Sandra
2012
The Sapphires
as Gail
2012
Mabo
as Bonita Mabo
2012
The Graduate From Sudan
as Self - Narrator
2009
Bran Nue Dae
as Roxanne
2009
Lucky Miles
as Lisa (voice)
2007
The Book of Revelation
as Julie
2006
The Archive Project
as Herself
2006
Black Chicks Talking
as Herself
2002
Australian Rules
Thanks (Crew)
2002
Rabbit-Proof Fence
as Mavis
2002
TV Shows (20)
Last Days of the Space Age
as Eileen Wilberforce
2024
ARK: The Animated Series
as Deborah Walker (voice)
2024
Boy Swallows Universe
as Poppy Birkbeck
2024
Australia's Wild Odyssey
as Narrator (voice)
2023
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
Little J and Big Cuz
as Big Cuz (voice)
2017
Cleverman
as Aunty Linda
2016
Wolf Creek
as Bernadette
2016
Tomorrow When the War Began
as Kath
2016
Jack Irish
as Cynthia
2016
It's a Date
as Joanne
2013
Please Like Me
as Siobhah
2013
Redfern Now
as Lorraine
2012
Offspring
2010
Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation
as Self - Contestant
2009
Rush
as Gabe
2008
Going Bush
2006