Deborah Mailman
Department: Acting
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
Lucky Miles
2007
Combat Wombat: Back 2 Back
2024
The New Boy
2023
The Sapphires
2012
The Darkside
2013
Jack Irish: Dead Point
2014
Looking Black
2022
Scarygirl
2023
Paper Planes
2014
Runt
2024
Mabo
2012
Play School: Nursery Rhymes
2001
Dear Claudia
1999
Rabbit-Proof Fence
2002
Blinky Bill the Movie
2015
Oddball
2015
Radiance
1998
Black Chicks Talking
2002
A Few Less Men
2017
Three Summers
2017
H Is for Happiness
2021
Bran Nue Dae
2009
Redfern Now: Promise Me
2015
2067
2020
The Monkey's Mask
2001
Combat Wombat
2020
The Archive Project
2006
Mental
2012
Kangaroo
2025
The Graduate From Sudan
2009
The Third Note
1999
Wolfram
2026
The Book of Revelation
2006
The Secret Life of Us
2001
Rush
2008
ARK: The Animated Series
2024
Please Like Me
2013
Going Bush
2006
Offspring
2010
Tomorrow When the War Began
2016
Rove
1999
Cleverman
2016
Last Days of the Space Age
2024
Wolf Creek
2016
Mystery Road
2018
Little J and Big Cuz
2017
Bite Club
2018
It's a Date
2013
The Sound
2020
AACTA Awards
1976
Boy Swallows Universe
2024
Total Control
2019
Redfern Now
2012
Australia's Wild Odyssey
2023
Jack Irish
2016
Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation
2009