Acting credits
54
Established
Large and steady acting portfolio.
Actor
Deborah Mailman
Acting
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
2.3
Moderate attention
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Movies: 33Series: 23Crew credits: 2
TMDB ID: 228704
IMDb ID: nm0537648
Known for: Acting
Born: July 14, 1972
Age: 53
Place of birth: Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia
Gender: Female
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1976 - 2025
Years active: 50
Average TMDB rating: 6.34
Wikidata: Q568179
Also known as
Deborah Jane Mailman • Deborah Mailmen • 데보라 메일맨 • Дебора Мейлман
Other jobs
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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.
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Deborah Mailman.
Wolfram
2025 Movie
6.6
Kangaroo
as Rosie
2025 Movie
5.8
Runt
as Bernadette Box
2024 Movie
6.3
Combat Wombat: Back 2 Back
as Maggie Diggins (voice)
2024 Movie
6.9
Scarygirl
as Treedweller (voice)
2023 Movie
5.6
The New Boy
as Sister Mum
2023 Movie
Looking Black
as Self
2022 Movie
6.3
H Is for Happiness
as Penelope Benson
2021 Movie
6.7
Combat Wombat
as Maggie Diggins (voice)
2020 Movie
5.4
2067
as Regina Jackson
2020 Movie
5.1
Three Summers
as Pam
2017 Movie
5.4
A Few Less Men
as Sergeant Simpson
2017 Movie
6.9
Oddball
as Mayor Lake / Narrator
2015 Movie
5.6
Blinky Bill the Movie
as Blinky's Mother (voice)
2015 Movie
8.0
Redfern Now: Promise Me
as Lorraine
2015 Movie
6.0
Paper Planes
as Maureen
2014 Movie
6.7
Jack Irish: Dead Point
as Cynthia
2014 Movie
9.0
The Darkside
as Pamela
2013 Movie
5.6
Mental
as Sandra
2012 Movie
6.8
The Sapphires
as Gail
2012 Movie
7.1
Mabo
as Bonita Mabo
2012 Movie
The Graduate From Sudan
as Self - Narrator
2009 Movie
5.4
Bran Nue Dae
as Roxanne
2009 Movie
Ralph
Director
2009 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Deborah Mailman.
5.6
Last Days of the Space Age
as Eileen Wilberforce • 8 eps
2024 Series
8.2
ARK: The Animated Series
as Deborah Walker (voice) • 14 eps
2024 Series
7.3
Boy Swallows Universe
as Poppy Birkbeck • 3 eps
2024 Series
7.0
Australia's Wild Odyssey
as Narrator (voice) • 3 eps
2023 Series
The Sound
as Self - Co-Host • 1 eps
2020 Series
5.6
Total Control
as Alex Irving • 18 eps
2019 Series
5.5
Bite Club
as Anna Morton • 8 eps
2018 Series
6.9
Mystery Road
as Kerry Thompson • 6 eps
2018 Series
Little J and Big Cuz
as Big Cuz (voice) • 40 eps
2017 Series
5.7
Cleverman
as Aunty Linda • 12 eps
2016 Series
7.0
Wolf Creek
as Bernadette • 2 eps
2016 Series
6.4
Tomorrow When the War Began
as Kath • 6 eps
2016 Series
6.9
Jack Irish
as Cynthia • 7 eps
2016 Series
6.3
It's a Date
as Joanne • 1 eps
2013 Series
7.6
Please Like Me
as Siobhah • 1 eps
2013 Series
8.0
Redfern Now
as Lorraine • 2 eps
2012 Series
6.9
Offspring
52 eps
2010 Series
2.0
Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation
as Self - Contestant • 1 eps
2009 Series
7.4
Rush
as Gabe • 1 eps
2008 Series
Going Bush
4 eps
2006 Series
5.0
The Secret Life of Us
as Kelly Lewis • 86 eps
2001 Series
8.0
Rove
as Self • 1 eps
1999 Series
AACTA Awards
as Self • 1 eps
1976 Series