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

Rush

Offspring

Rove

Total Control

Jack Irish

The Secret Life of Us

Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation

ARK: The Animated Series

All Movies (33)

• Wolfram2026 · as Pansy
• Kangaroo2025 · as Rosie
• Runt2024 · as Bernadette Box
• Combat Wombat: Back 2 Back2024 · as Maggie Diggins (voice)
• Scarygirl2023 · as Treedweller (voice)
• The New Boy2023 · as Sister Mum
• Looking Black2022 · as Self
• H Is for Happiness2021 · as Penelope Benson
• Combat Wombat2020 · as Maggie Diggins (voice)
• 20672020 · as Regina Jackson
• Three Summers2017 · as Pam
• A Few Less Men2017 · as Sergeant Simpson
• Oddball2015 · as Mayor Lake / Narrator
• Blinky Bill the Movie2015 · as Blinky's Mother (voice)
• Redfern Now: Promise Me2015 · as Lorraine
• Paper Planes2014 · as Maureen
• Jack Irish: Dead Point2014 · as Cynthia
• The Darkside2013 · as Pamela
• Mental2012 · as Sandra
• The Sapphires2012 · as Gail
• Mabo2012 · as Bonita Mabo
• The Graduate From Sudan2009 · as Self - Narrator
• Bran Nue Dae2009 · as Roxanne
• Lucky Miles2007 · as Lisa (voice)
• The Book of Revelation2006 · as Julie
• The Archive Project2006 · as Herself
• Black Chicks Talking2002 · as Herself
• Rabbit-Proof Fence2002 · as Mavis
• Play School: Nursery Rhymes2001 · as Deborah
• The Monkey's Mask2001 · as Lou
• The Third Note1999 · as Tina
• Dear Claudia1999 · as Cathy
• Radiance1998 · as Nona

All TV Shows (23)

• Last Days of the Space Age2024 · as Eileen Wilberforce
• ARK: The Animated Series2024 · as Deborah Walker (voice)
• Boy Swallows Universe2024 · as Poppy Birkbeck
• Australia's Wild Odyssey2023 · as Narrator (voice)
• The Sound2020 · as Self - Co-Host
• Total Control2019 · as Alex Irving
• Bite Club2018 · as Anna Morton
• Mystery Road2018 · as Kerry Thompson
• Little J and Big Cuz2017 · as Big Cuz (voice)
• Cleverman2016 · as Aunty Linda
• Wolf Creek2016 · as Bernadette
• Tomorrow When the War Began2016 · as Kath
• Jack Irish2016 · as Cynthia
• It's a Date2013 · as Joanne
• Please Like Me2013 · as Siobhah
• Redfern Now2012 · as Lorraine
• Offspring2010
• Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation2009 · as Self - Contestant
• Rush2008 · as Gabe
• Going Bush2006
• The Secret Life of Us2001 · as Kelly Lewis
• Rove1999 · as Self
• AACTA Awards1976 · as Self