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Deborah Jane Mailman, 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. Mailman first gained recognition for the 1998 film Radiance, for which she won her first AFI award.
Born
Friday, 14 July 1972
Actress Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Ark: The Animated Series | Deborah Walker / Deborah Walker (voice) | 2024 |
Combat Wombat: Back 2 Back | Maggie Diggins | 2024 |
Boy Swallows Universe | Poppy Birkbeck | 2024 |
Scarygirl | Treedweller / Treedweller (voice) | 2023 |
The New Boy | Sister Mum | 2023 |
Combat Wombat | Maggie Diggins / Maggie Diggins (voice) | 2020 |
2067 | Regina Jackson | 2020 |
At Home Alone Together | Self | 2020 |
H is for Happiness | Penelope Benson | 2020 |
Total Control | Alex Irving | 2019 |
Actress Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Ark: The Animated Series | Deborah Walker / Deborah Walker (voice) | 2024 |
Combat Wombat: Back 2 Back | Maggie Diggins | 2024 |
Boy Swallows Universe | Poppy Birkbeck | 2024 |
Scarygirl | Treedweller / Treedweller (voice) | 2023 |
The New Boy | Sister Mum | 2023 |
Combat Wombat | Maggie Diggins / Maggie Diggins (voice) | 2020 |
2067 | Regina Jackson | 2020 |
At Home Alone Together | Self | 2020 |
H is for Happiness | Penelope Benson | 2020 |
Total Control | Alex Irving | 2019 |
Bluey | Sheepdog 1 | 2018 |
Three Summers | Pam | 2018 |
Bite Club | Anna Morton | 2018 |
Mystery Road | Kerry Thompson | 2018 |
Big Mouth | Elanora / Auntie Deb | 2017 |
Get Krack!n | Prime Minister Burney | 2017 |
Little J & Big Cuz | Big Cuz / Big Cuz (voice) | 2017 |
A Few Less Men | Police Officer / Sergeant Simpson | 2017 |
Cleverman | Aunty Linda | 2016 |
Wolf Creek | Bernadette | 2016 |
Tomorrow, When the War Began | Kath | 2016 |
Jack Irish | Cynthia | 2016 |
Oddball | Narrator / Mayor Lake | 2015 |
Blinky Bill the Movie | Betty (Blinky's Mother) / Blinky's Mother (voice) | 2015 |
Redfern Now: Promise Me | Lorraine | 2015 |
Black Comedy | Guest Cast | 2014 |
Paper Planes | Maureen | 2014 |
Jack Irish: Dead Point | Cynthia | 2014 |
Advance Australian Film | Self - Red Carpet Interview | 2014 |
The Darkside | Pamela | 2013 |
It's a Date | Joanne | 2013 |
Please Like Me | Siobhan | 2013 |
Redfern Now | Lorraine | 2012 |
Mental | Sandra | 2012 |
The Sapphires | Gail | 2012 |
Mabo | Bonita Mabo | 2012 |
The Living Room | Self - Actress | 2012 |
Offspring | Cherie Butterfield | 2010 |
Bran Nue Dae | Roxanne | 2010 |
Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation | Self | 2009 |
Rush | Gabe | 2008 |
Lucky Miles | Lisa (voice) / Lisa | 2007 |
Stupid Stupid Man | Lenore Schutzstaffel | 2006 |
The Book of Revelation | Julie | 2006 |
Two Twisted | Detective Elsie Jones | 2006 |
The Archive Project | Herself | 2006 |
The Chaser's War on Everything | Self | 2006 |
Going Bush | Self | 2006 |
The Alice | Sonia | 2005 |
At the Movies | Self | 2004 |
Enough Rope with Andrew Denton | Self | 2003 |
Black Chicks Talking | Self / Herself | 2002 |
Rabbit-Proof Fence | Mavis | 2002 |
The Secret Life of Us | Kelly Lewis / Self | 2001 |
The Monkey's Mask | Lou | 2001 |
Radiance | Nona | 1998 |
Director Filmography
Title | Year |
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Little J & Big Cuz | 2017 |