
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