Deborah Mailman

1972 (54) • Acting

Born: 7/14/1972 (54) in Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia

Known for: Acting

Deborah Mailman

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

2067

55%

Regina Jackson

2020

Rabbit-Proof Fence

70%

Mavis

2002

The Sapphires

68%

Gail

2012

Wolf Creek

70%

Bernadette

2016

Please Like Me

76%

Siobhah

2013

Boy Swallows Universe

74%

Poppy Birkbeck

2024

Paper Planes

60%

Maureen

2014

Oddball

69%

Mayor Lake / Narrator

2015

Wolfram

50%

Pansy

2026

Kangaroo

64%

Rosie

2025

Last Days of the Space Age

56%

Eileen Wilberforce

2024

Runt

62%

Bernadette Box

2024

ARK: The Animated Series

78%

Deborah Walker (voice)

2024

Combat Wombat: Back 2 Back

63%

Maggie Diggins (voice)

2024

Boy Swallows Universe

74%

Poppy Birkbeck

2024

Scarygirl

69%

Treedweller (voice)

2023

The New Boy

61%

Sister Mum

2023

Australia's Wild Odyssey

70%

Narrator (voice)

2023

Looking Black

Self

2022

H Is for Happiness

65%

Penelope Benson

2021

Combat Wombat

66%

Maggie Diggins (voice)

2020

2067

55%

Regina Jackson

2020

The Sound

Self - Co-Host

2020

Total Control

58%

Alex Irving

2019

Bite Club

57%

Anna Morton

2018

Mystery Road

69%

Kerry Thompson

2018

Three Summers

53%

Pam

2017

Little J & Big Cuz

Big Cuz (voice)

2017

A Few Less Men

54%

Sergeant Simpson

2017

Cleverman

58%

Aunty Linda

2016

Wolf Creek

70%

Bernadette

2016

Tomorrow When the War Began

65%

Kath

2016

Jack Irish

65%

Cynthia

2016

Oddball

69%

Mayor Lake / Narrator

2015

Blinky Bill the Movie

54%

Blinky's Mother (voice)

2015

Redfern Now: Promise Me

80%

Lorraine

2015