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.
Filmography
A Grief Encounter
2026
as Adrienne
Wolfram
2026
as Pansy
Kangaroo: Uma Aventura na Austrália
2025
as Rosie
Runt
2024
as Bernadette Box
Combat Wombat: Back 2 Back
2024
as Maggie Diggins (voice)
Scarygirl
2023
as Treedweller (voice)
The New Boy
2023
as Sister Mum
Looking Black
2022
as Self
H Is for Happiness
2021
as Penelope Benson
Combat Wombat
2020
as Maggie Diggins (voice)
2067
2020
as Regina Jackson
Three Summers
2017
as Pam
A Few Less Men
2017
as Sergeant Simpson
Oddball
2015
as Mayor Lake / Narrator
Blinky Bill the Movie
2015
as Blinky's Mother (voice)
Redfern Now: Promise Me
2015
as Lorraine
Paper Planes
2014
as Maureen
Jack Irish: Dead Point
2014
as Cynthia
The Darkside
2013
as Pamela
Mental
2012
as Sandra
The Sapphires
2012
as Gail
Mabo
2012
as Bonita Mabo
The Graduate From Sudan
2009
as Self - Narrator
Bran Nue Dae
2009
as Roxanne