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.
Movies 35
2067
as Regina Jackson
2020
Kangaroo
as Rosie
2025
Scarygirl
as Treedweller (voice)
2023
A Few Less Men
as Sergeant Simpson
2017
Blinky Bill the Movie
as Blinky's Mother (voice)
2015
Rabbit-Proof Fence
as Mavis
2002
Mental
as Sandra
2012
Combat Wombat: Back 2 Back
as Maggie Diggins (voice)
2024
The Book of Revelation
as Julie
2006
H Is for Happiness
as Penelope Benson
2021
The Sapphires
as Gail
2012
Paper Planes
as Maureen
2014
Jack Irish: Dead Point
as Cynthia
2014
Runt
as Bernadette Box
2024
Oddball
as Mayor Lake / Narrator
2015
The New Boy
as Sister Mum
2023
The Monkey's Mask
as Lou
2001
Bran Nue Dae
as Roxanne
2009
Wolfram
as Pansy
2026
Mabo
as Bonita Mabo
2012
Combat Wombat
as Maggie Diggins (voice)
2020
Redfern Now: Promise Me
as Lorraine
2015
The Third Note
as Tina
1999
The Darkside
as Pamela
2013
Play School: Nursery Rhymes
as Deborah
2001
Radiance
as Nona
1998
Lucky Miles
as Lisa (voice)
2007
Three Summers
as Pam
2017
Repeats
The Archive Project
as Herself
2006
Looking Black
as Self
2022
Dear Claudia
as Cathy
1999
A Grief Encounter
as Adrienne
2026
The Graduate From Sudan
as Self - Narrator
2009
Black Chicks Talking
as Herself
2002TV Shows 23
Rush
as Gabe
2008
Offspring
2010
Rove
as Self
1999
The Secret Life of Us
as Kelly Lewis
2001
Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation
as Self - Contestant
2009
Please Like Me
as Siobhah
2013
Jack Irish
as Cynthia
2016
Total Control
as Alex Irving
2019
ARK: The Animated Series
as Deborah Walker (voice)
2024
Mystery Road
as Kerry Thompson
2018
Boy Swallows Universe
as Poppy Birkbeck
2024
Wolf Creek
as Bernadette
2016
Little J & Big Cuz
as Big Cuz (voice)
2017
Cleverman
as Aunty Linda
2016
AACTA Awards
as Self
1976
Last Days of the Space Age
as Eileen Wilberforce
2024
It's a Date
as Joanne
2013
Redfern Now
as Lorraine
2012
The Sound
as Self - Co-Host
2020
Tomorrow When the War Began
as Kath
2016
Bite Club
as Anna Morton
2018
Going Bush
2006
Australia's Wild Odyssey
as Narrator (voice)
2023