Deborah Mailman
Known for ActingBorn 1972-07-14Mount 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.
Known for
The New Boy
2023 · as Sister Mum
2067
2020 · as Regina Jackson
Scarygirl
2023 · as Treedweller (voice)
Rabbit-Proof Fence
2002 · as Mavis
Kangaroo
2025 · as Rosie
Oddball
2015 · as Mayor Lake / Narrator
Paper Planes
2014 · as Maureen
The Sapphires
2012 · as Gail
Runt
2024 · as Bernadette Box
A Few Less Men
2017 · as Sergeant Simpson
Mental
2012 · as Sandra
The Book of Revelation
2006 · as Julie
The Monkey's Mask
2001 · as Lou
Combat Wombat
2020 · as Maggie Diggins (voice)
Blinky Bill the Movie
2015 · as Blinky's Mother (voice)
Three Summers
2017 · as Pam
Wolfram
2026 · as Pansy
Bran Nue Dae
2009 · as Roxanne