Deborah Mailman
Acting
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.
Born: July 14, 1972
Place of Birth: Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia
Known For
The Darkside
Writer and Director Warwick Thornton has assembled a collection of the most poignant, sad, funny and absurd ghost stories from around Australia. He will bring them to life with the help of some of Australia's most iconic actors as the storytellers.
ARK: The Animated Series
In a mysterious primeval land populated by dinosaurs and other extinct creatures, people from throughout human history have been resurrected. When 21st century Australian paleontologist Helena Walker awakes there after tragedy, she must learn to survive and find new allies, or die again at the hands of ruthless warlords, all while trying to uncover the true nature of their strange new world.
Redfern Now: Promise Me
Two young women are raped on their way home. The story follows the lives of both women and the different ways they deal with the crime.
Rove
Rove, formerly Rove Live, was an Australian television variety show which premiered on the Nine Network on 22 September 1999, before moving to Network Ten which aired the program from 2000 until November, 2009. The show was hosted by comedian Rove McManus, and featured an ensemble cast, who presented various segments throughout the course of the show. The show won the Logie Award for "Most Popular Light Entertainment Program" five times.
Redfern Now
Six extraordinary stories one unmissable series. Redfern Now is the first drama series written, directed and produced by Indigenous Australians.
Please Like Me
After breaking up with his girlfriend, Josh comes to the realization that he is homosexual. With the support of his now ex girlfriend Claire, and his best friend and house mate Tom, Josh must help his mother with her battle with depression and the rest of his family embrace his new found lifestyle.
Rush
They are trained to be smarter, tactically superior and technologically advantaged - Melbourne's answer for a cutting edge trend in policing worldwide. Rush was an Australian television police drama that first screened on Network Ten in September 2008. Set in Melbourne, Victoria, it focuses on the members of a Police Tactical Response team. It is produced by John Edwards and Southern Star. On 10 November 2011, as with Network Ten setting out DVD promotions for the finale of season 4, David Knox of TV Tonight has announced that Rush would not return after 4 years, as the next episode would be its last.
Boy Swallows Universe
A young boy growing up in the suburbs of 1980s Brisbane faces the harsh realities of life — and the looming dangers that threaten his family.
Mabo
The remarkable life story of Eddie 'Koiki' Mabo; a Torres Strait Islander who left school at the age of 15, yet spearheaded the High Court challenge that overthrew the fiction of terra nullius.
Wolf Creek
An anthology series which centers on different characters being targeted by crazed serial killer Mick Taylor in the Australian outback.
Filmography
as Rosie
as Eileen Wilberforce
as Bernadette Box
as Deborah Walker (voice)
as Maggie Diggins (voice)
as Poppy Birkbeck
as Treedweller (voice)
as Sister Mum
as Narrator (voice)
as Self
as Penelope Benson
as Maggie Diggins (voice)
as Regina Jackson
as Self - Co-Host
as Alex Irving
as Alex Irving
as Anna Morton
as Kerry Thompson
as Pam
as Big Cuz (voice)
as Sergeant Simpson
as Aunty Linda
as Bernadette
as Kath
as Cynthia
as Mayor Lake / Narrator
as Blinky's Mother (voice)
as Lorraine
as Maureen
as Cynthia
as Pamela
as Joanne
as Siobhah
as Lorraine
as Sandra
as Gail
as Bonita Mabo
as Self - Narrator
as Roxanne
as Self - Contestant
as Gabe
as Lisa (voice)
as Julie
as Herself
as Mavis
as Deborah
as Kelly Lewis
as Lou
as Self
as Cathy
as Nona
as Self