Deborah Mailman

Known for: Acting

Born: 1972-07-14 (age 53)

From: Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia

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.

Filmography (56)

MOVIE★ 9.0
Wolfram
2026
as Pansy
MOVIE★ 6.4
Kangaroo
2025
as Rosie
TV★ 5.6
Last Days of the Space Age
2024
as Eileen Wilberforce
MOVIE★ 6.2
Runt
2024
as Bernadette Box
TV★ 7.8
ARK: The Animated Series
2024
as Deborah Walker (voice)
MOVIE★ 6.3
Combat Wombat: Back 2 Back
2024
as Maggie Diggins (voice)
TV★ 7.4
Boy Swallows Universe
2024
as Poppy Birkbeck
MOVIE★ 6.9
Scarygirl
2023
as Treedweller (voice)
MOVIE★ 6.1
The New Boy
2023
as Sister Mum
TV★ 7.0
Australia's Wild Odyssey
2023
as Narrator (voice)
MOVIE
Looking Black
2022
as Self
MOVIE★ 6.4
H Is for Happiness
2021
as Penelope Benson
MOVIE★ 6.6
Combat Wombat
2020
as Maggie Diggins (voice)
MOVIE★ 5.5
2067
2020
as Regina Jackson
TV
The Sound
2020
as Self - Co-Host
TV★ 5.6
Total Control
2019
as Alex Irving
TV★ 5.7
Bite Club
2018
as Anna Morton
TV★ 6.9
Mystery Road
2018
as Kerry Thompson
MOVIE★ 5.3
Three Summers
2017
as Pam
TV
Little J and Big Cuz
2017
as Big Cuz (voice)
MOVIE★ 5.4
A Few Less Men
2017
as Sergeant Simpson
TV★ 5.8
Cleverman
2016
as Aunty Linda
TV★ 7.0
Wolf Creek
2016
as Bernadette
TV★ 6.5
Tomorrow When the War Began
2016
as Kath
TV★ 6.7
Jack Irish
2016
as Cynthia
MOVIE★ 6.9
Oddball
2015
as Mayor Lake / Narrator
MOVIE★ 5.5
Blinky Bill the Movie
2015
as Blinky's Mother (voice)
MOVIE★ 8.0
Redfern Now: Promise Me
2015
as Lorraine
MOVIE★ 6.0
Paper Planes
2014
as Maureen
MOVIE★ 6.7
Jack Irish: Dead Point
2014
as Cynthia
MOVIE★ 9.0
The Darkside
2013
as Pamela
TV★ 6.3
It's a Date
2013
as Joanne
TV★ 7.6
Please Like Me
2013
as Siobhah
TV★ 8.0
Redfern Now
2012
as Lorraine
MOVIE★ 5.6
Mental
2012
as Sandra
MOVIE★ 6.8
The Sapphires
2012
as Gail
MOVIE★ 7.1
Mabo
2012
as Bonita Mabo
TV★ 6.9
Offspring
2010
MOVIE
The Graduate From Sudan
2009
as Self - Narrator
MOVIE★ 5.3
Bran Nue Dae
2009
as Roxanne
TV★ 3.3
Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation
2009
as Self - Contestant
TV★ 7.4
Rush
2008
as Gabe
MOVIE★ 6.0
Lucky Miles
2007
as Lisa (voice)
MOVIE★ 5.2
The Book of Revelation
2006
as Julie
MOVIE
The Archive Project
2006
as Herself
TV
Going Bush
2006
MOVIE★ 7.0
Black Chicks Talking
2002
as Herself
MOVIE★ 7.0
Rabbit-Proof Fence
2002
as Mavis
MOVIE
Play School: Nursery Rhymes
2001
as Deborah
TV★ 5.7
The Secret Life of Us
2001
as Kelly Lewis
MOVIE★ 4.4
The Monkey's Mask
2001
as Lou
TV★ 7.5
Rove
1999
as Self
MOVIE★ 7.0
The Third Note
1999
as Tina
MOVIE★ 5.7
Dear Claudia
1999
as Cathy
MOVIE★ 5.9
Radiance
1998
as Nona
TV
AACTA Awards
1976
as Self