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.

Filmography

• 2026A Grief Encounter — Adrienne
• 2026Wolfram — Pansy
• 2025Kangaroo — Rosie
• ARK: The Animated Series — Deborah Walker (voice)
• Boy Swallows Universe — Poppy Birkbeck
• 2024Combat Wombat: Back 2 Back — Maggie Diggins (voice)
• Last Days of the Space Age — Eileen Wilberforce
• 2024Runt — Bernadette Box
• Australia's Wild Odyssey — Narrator (voice)
• 2023Scarygirl — Treedweller (voice)
• 2023The New Boy — Sister Mum
• 2021H Is for Happiness — Penelope Benson
• 20202067 — Regina Jackson
• 2020Combat Wombat — Maggie Diggins (voice)
• Total Control — Alex Irving
• Bite Club — Anna Morton
• Mystery Road — Kerry Thompson
• 2017A Few Less Men — Sergeant Simpson
• Little J & Big Cuz — Big Cuz (voice)
• 2017Three Summers — Pam
• Cleverman — Aunty Linda
• Jack Irish — Cynthia
• Tomorrow When the War Began — Kath
• Wolf Creek — Bernadette
• 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
• It's a Date — Joanne
• Please Like Me — Siobhah
• 2013The Darkside — Pamela
• 2012Mabo — Bonita Mabo
• 2012Mental — Sandra
• Redfern Now — Lorraine
• 2012The Sapphires — Gail
• Offspring
• 2009Bran Nue Dae — Roxanne
• 2009Ralph — Director, Writer
• Rush — Gabe
• 2007Lucky Miles — Lisa (voice)
• Going Bush
• 2006The Book of Revelation — Julie
• 2002Australian Rules — Thanks
• 2002Rabbit-Proof Fence — Mavis
• 2001Play School: Nursery Rhymes — Deborah
• 2001The Monkey's Mask — Lou
• The Secret Life of Us — Kelly Lewis
• 1999Dear Claudia — Cathy
• 1999The Third Note — Tina
• 1998Radiance — Nona
• Repeats

Appearances as themselves (8)

• 2022Looking Black — Self
• The Sound — Self - Co-Host
• Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation — Self - Contestant
• 2009The Graduate From Sudan — Self - Narrator
• 2006The Archive Project — Herself
• 2002Black Chicks Talking — Herself
• Rove — Self
• AACTA Awards — Self