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Deborah Mailman

Deborah Mailman

Birthday: 1972-07-14 | Place of Birth: Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia

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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2025
Kangaroo

as    Rosie

2025
The New Boy

as    Sister Mum

2024
Runt

as    Bernadette Box

2024
Last Days of the Space Age

as    Eileen Wilberforce

2024
Last Days of the Space Age

as    Eileen Wilberforce

2024
Combat Wombat: Back 2 Back

as    Maggie Diggins (voice)

2024
Bluey: The Sign

as    Sheepdog 1 (voice)

2024
Scarygirl

as    Treedweller (voice)

2023
Australia's Wild Odyssey

as    Narrator (voice)

2022
Looking Black

as    Self

2021
H Is for Happiness

as    Penelope Benson

2020
Combat Wombat

as    Maggie Diggins (voice)

2020
2067

as    Regina Jackson

2019
Total Control

as    Alex Irving

2019
Total Control

as    Alex Irving

2018
Bite Club

as    Anna Morton

2017
Little J and Big Cuz

as    Big Cuz (voice)

2017
Three Summers

as    Pam

2016
Cleverman

as    Aunty Linda

2016
2015
Blinky Bill the Movie

as    Blinky's Mother (voice)

2015
Paper Planes

as    Maureen

2015
Oddball

as    Mayor Lake / Narrator

2014
Jack Irish: Dead Point

as    Cynthia

2013
The Sapphires

as    Gail

2013
The Darkside

as    Pamela

2012
Mabo

as    Bonita Mabo

2011
Bran Nue Dae

as    Roxanne

2009
The Graduate From Sudan

as    Self - Narrator