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Personal Info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1972-07-14 (52 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.

Known For

Acting

2025

Kangaroo as Rosie

2024

Combat Wombat: Back 2 Back as Maggie Diggins (voice)
Runt as Bernadette Box
ARK: The Animated Series as Deborah Walker (voice)
Last Days of the Space Age as Eileen Wilberforce
Boy Swallows Universe as Poppy Birkbeck

2023

The New Boy as Sister Mum
Scarygirl as Treedweller (voice)
Australia's Wild Odyssey as Narrator (voice)

2022

2021

H Is for Happiness as Penelope Benson

2020

2067 as Regina Jackson
Combat Wombat as Maggie Diggins (voice)
The Sound as Self - Co-Host

2019

Total Control as Alex Irving

2018

Mystery Road as Kerry Thompson
Bite Club as Anna Morton
Bluey as Sheepdog 1 (voice)

2017

A Few Less Men as Police Officer
Little J and Big Cuz as Big Cuz (voice)

2016

Cleverman as Aunty Linda
Wolf Creek as Bernadette
Jack Irish as Cynthia

2015

Blinky Bill the Movie as Blinky's Mother (voice)
Oddball as Mayor Lake / Narrator

2014

Paper Planes as Maureen

2013

The Darkside as Pamela
Please Like Me as Siobhah
It's a Date as Joanne

2012

Mabo as Bonita Mabo
Mental as Sandra
Redfern Now as Lorraine

2010

2009

Bran Nue Dae as Roxanne
The Graduate From Sudan as Self - Narrator

2008

Rush as Gabe

2007

Lucky Miles as Lisa (voice)

2006

2002

2001

The Secret Life of Us as Kelly Lewis

1999

Dear Claudia as Cathy
Rove as Self

1998

Radiance as Nona

1976

AACTA Awards as Self