Deborah Mailman
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.

Top 10 collaborators

Roles

Match
Runt (2024)
Bernadette Box
Combat Wombat: Back 2 Back (2024)
Maggie Diggins (voice)
Scarygirl (2023)
Treedweller (voice)
The New Boy (2023)
Sister Mum
H Is for Happiness (2021)
Penelope Benson
Combat Wombat (2020)
Maggie Diggins (voice)
2067 (2020)
Regina Jackson
Three Summers (2017)
Pam
A Few Less Men (2017)
Police Officer
Oddball (2015)
Mayor Lake / Narrator
Blinky Bill the Movie (2015)
Blinky's Mother (voice)
Redfern Now: Promise Me (2015)
Lorraine
Paper Planes (2014)
Maureen
Jack Irish: Dead Point (2014)
Cynthia
The Darkside (2013)
Pamela
Mental (2012)
Sandra
The Sapphires (2012)
Gail
Mabo (2012)
Bonita Mabo
Bran Nue Dae (2009)
Roxanne
Lucky Miles (2007)
Lisa (voice)
Black Chicks Talking (2002)
Herself
Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)
Mavis
Play School: Nursery Rhymes (2001)
Deborah
The Monkey's Mask (2001)
Lou
Dear Claudia (1999)
Cathy
Radiance (1998)
Nona

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