Actor
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. ...

Known For
Acting
2025 -- Kangaroo | Rosie
2024 -- Runt | Bernadette Box
2024 -- Combat Wombat: Back 2 Back | Maggie Diggins (voice)
2023 -- Scarygirl | Treedweller (voice)
2023 -- The New Boy | Sister Mum
2022 -- Looking Black | Self
2021 -- H Is for Happiness | Penelope Benson
2020 -- Combat Wombat | Maggie Diggins (voice)
2020 -- 2067 | Regina Jackson
2017 -- Three Summers | Pam
2017 -- A Few Less Men | Police Officer
2015 -- Oddball | Mayor Lake / Narrator
2015 -- Blinky Bill the Movie | Blinky's Mother (voice)
2015 -- Redfern Now: Promise Me | Lorraine
2014 -- Paper Planes | Maureen
2014 -- Jack Irish: Dead Point | Cynthia
2013 -- The Darkside | Pamela
2012 -- Mental | Sandra
2012 -- The Sapphires | Gail
2012 -- Mabo | Bonita Mabo
2009 -- The Graduate From Sudan | Self - Narrator
2009 -- Bran Nue Dae | Roxanne
2007 -- Lucky Miles | Lisa (voice)
2006 -- The Archive Project | Herself
2002 -- Black Chicks Talking | Herself
2002 -- Rabbit-Proof Fence | Mavis
2001 -- Play School: Nursery Rhymes | Deborah
2001 -- The Monkey's Mask | Lou
1999 -- The Third Note | Tina
1999 -- Dear Claudia | Cathy
1998 -- Radiance | Nona
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