Deborah Mailman

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1972-07-14 (53 years old)

Place of Birth

Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia

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.

Acting

2007

Lucky Miles

as Lisa (voice)

2024

Combat Wombat: Back 2 Back

as Maggie Diggins (voice)

2023

The New Boy

as Sister Mum

2012

2013

The Darkside

as Pamela

2022

2023

Scarygirl

as Treedweller (voice)

2014

Paper Planes

as Maureen

2024

Runt

as Bernadette Box

2012

Mabo

as Bonita Mabo

1999

Dear Claudia

as Cathy

2002

2015

Blinky Bill the Movie

as Blinky's Mother (voice)

2015

Oddball

as Mayor Lake / Narrator

1998

Radiance

as Nona

2002

2017

A Few Less Men

as Sergeant Simpson

2017

2021

H Is for Happiness

as Penelope Benson

2009

Bran Nue Dae

as Roxanne

2020

2067

as Regina Jackson

2020

Combat Wombat

as Maggie Diggins (voice)

2006

2012

Mental

as Sandra

2025

Kangaroo

as Rosie

2009

The Graduate From Sudan

as Self - Narrator

1999

2019

Total Control

as Alex Irving

Production

2002

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