Portrait of Deborah Mailman

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

Filmography

2025
Kangaroo

as Rosie

2024
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

2023
Scarygirl

as Treedweller (voice)

2023
The New Boy

as Sister Mum

2023
Australia's Wild Odyssey

as Narrator (voice)

2022
2021
H Is for Happiness

as Penelope Benson

2020
Combat Wombat

as Maggie Diggins (voice)

2020
2067

as Regina Jackson

2020
The Sound

as Self - Co-Host

2019
Total Control

as Alex Irving

2019
Total Control

as Alex Irving

2018
Bite Club

as Anna Morton

2018
Mystery Road

as Kerry Thompson

2017
2017
Little J and Big Cuz

as Big Cuz (voice)

2017
A Few Less Men

as Sergeant Simpson

2016
Cleverman

as Aunty Linda

2016
Wolf Creek

as Bernadette

2016
Jack Irish

as Cynthia

2015
Oddball

as Mayor Lake / Narrator

2015
Blinky Bill the Movie

as Blinky's Mother (voice)

2014
Paper Planes

as Maureen

2013
The Darkside

as Pamela

2013
It's a Date

as Joanne

2013
Please Like Me

as Siobhah

2012
Redfern Now

as Lorraine

2012
Mental

as Sandra

2012
2012
Mabo

as Bonita Mabo

2009
The Graduate From Sudan

as Self - Narrator

2009
Bran Nue Dae

as Roxanne

2009
Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation

as Self - Contestant

2008
Rush

as Gabe

2007
Lucky Miles

as Lisa (voice)

2006
2002
2001
The Secret Life of Us

as Kelly Lewis

1999
Rove

as Self

1999
Dear Claudia

as Cathy

1998
Radiance

as Nona

1976