Acting · Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia · Born July 14, 1972
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.
MovieWolfram
2026
as Pansy
MovieKangaroo
2025
as Rosie
TVLast Days of the Space Age
2024
as Eileen Wilberforce
MovieRunt
2024
as Bernadette Box
TVARK: The Animated Series
2024
as Deborah Walker (voice)
MovieCombat Wombat: Back 2 Back
2024
as Maggie Diggins (voice)
TVBoy Swallows Universe
2024
as Poppy Birkbeck
MovieScarygirl
2023
as Treedweller (voice)
MovieThe New Boy
2023
as Sister Mum
TVAustralia's Wild Odyssey
2023
as Narrator (voice)
MovieLooking Black
2022
as Self
MovieH Is for Happiness
2021
as Penelope Benson
MovieCombat Wombat
2020
as Maggie Diggins (voice)
Movie2067
2020
as Regina Jackson
TVThe Sound
2020
as Self - Co-Host
TVTotal Control
2019
as Alex Irving
TVBite Club
2018
as Anna Morton
TVMystery Road
2018
as Kerry Thompson
MovieThree Summers
2017
as Pam
TVLittle J and Big Cuz
2017
as Big Cuz (voice)
MovieA Few Less Men
2017
as Sergeant Simpson
TVCleverman
2016
as Aunty Linda
TVWolf Creek
2016
as Bernadette
TVTomorrow When the War Began
2016
as Kath
TVJack Irish
2016
as Cynthia
MovieOddball
2015
as Mayor Lake / Narrator
MovieBlinky Bill the Movie
2015
as Blinky's Mother (voice)
MovieRedfern Now: Promise Me
2015
as Lorraine
MoviePaper Planes
2014
as Maureen
MovieJack Irish: Dead Point
2014
as Cynthia
MovieThe Darkside
2013
as Pamela
TVIt's a Date
2013
as Joanne
TVPlease Like Me
2013
as Siobhah
TVRedfern Now
2012
as Lorraine
MovieMental
2012
as Sandra
MovieThe Sapphires
2012
as Gail
MovieMabo
2012
as Bonita Mabo
TVOffspring
2010
MovieThe Graduate From Sudan
2009
as Self - Narrator
MovieBran Nue Dae
2009
as Roxanne
TVTalkin' 'Bout Your Generation
2009
as Self - Contestant
TVRush
2008
as Gabe
MovieLucky Miles
2007
as Lisa (voice)
MovieThe Book of Revelation
2006
as Julie
MovieThe Archive Project
2006
as Herself
TVGoing Bush
2006
Black Chicks Talking
2002
as Herself
MovieRabbit-Proof Fence
2002
as Mavis
MoviePlay School: Nursery Rhymes
2001
as Deborah
TVThe Secret Life of Us
2001
as Kelly Lewis
MovieThe Monkey's Mask
2001
as Lou
TVRove
1999
as Self
The Third Note
1999
as Tina
MovieDear Claudia
1999
as Cathy
MovieRadiance
1998
as Nona
TVAACTA Awards
1976
as Self
