Deborah Mailman
Acting
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
2026Wolfram
Pansy
2025Kangaroo
Rosie
2024Combat Wombat: Back 2 Back
Maggie Diggins (voice)
2024Runt
Bernadette Box
2023The New Boy
Sister Mum
2023Scarygirl
Treedweller (voice)
2022Looking Black
Self
2021H Is for Happiness
Penelope Benson
20202067
Regina Jackson
2020Combat Wombat
Maggie Diggins (voice)
2017A Few Less Men
Sergeant Simpson
2017Three Summers
Pam
2015Blinky Bill the Movie
Blinky's Mother (voice)
2015Oddball
Mayor Lake / Narrator
2015Redfern Now: Promise Me
Lorraine
2014Jack Irish: Dead Point
Cynthia
2014Paper Planes
Maureen
2013The Darkside
Pamela
2012The Sapphires
Gail
2012Mabo
Bonita Mabo
2012Mental
Sandra
2009Bran Nue Dae
Roxanne
2009The Graduate From Sudan
Self - Narrator
2007Lucky Miles
Lisa (voice)
