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.
Also Known As
Movie Appearances
Lucky Miles
as Lisa (voice)
2007
Combat Wombat: Back 2 Back
as Maggie Diggins (voice)
2024
The New Boy
as Sister Mum
2023
The Sapphires
as Gail
2012
The Darkside
as Pamela
2013
Jack Irish: Dead Point
as Cynthia
2014
Looking Black
as Self
2022
Scarygirl
as Treedweller (voice)
2023
Paper Planes
as Maureen
2014
Runt
as Bernadette Box
2024
Mabo
as Bonita Mabo
2012
Play School: Nursery Rhymes
as Deborah
2001
Dear Claudia
as Cathy
1999
Rabbit-Proof Fence
as Mavis
2002
Blinky Bill the Movie
as Blinky's Mother (voice)
2015
Oddball
as Mayor Lake / Narrator
2015
Radiance
as Nona
1998
Black Chicks Talking
as Herself
2002
A Few Less Men
as Sergeant Simpson
2017
Three Summers
as Pam
2017
TV Appearances
The Secret Life of Us
as Kelly Lewis
2001
Rush
as Gabe
2008
ARK: The Animated Series
as Deborah Walker (voice)
2024
Please Like Me
as Siobhah
2013
Going Bush
2006
Offspring
2010
Tomorrow When the War Began
as Kath
2016
Rove
as Self
1999
Cleverman
as Aunty Linda
2016
Last Days of the Space Age
as Eileen Wilberforce
2024
Wolf Creek
as Bernadette
2016
Mystery Road
as Kerry Thompson
2018