Deborah Mailman
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.
Runt
as Bernadette BoxIn the Australian town of Upson Downs, ten-year-old Annie and Runt, her stray dog, attempt to...
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2067
as Regina JacksonA lowly utility worker is called to the future by a mysterious radio signal, he must leave his...
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Scarygirl
as Treedweller (voice)As her world is shrouded in darkness, a young girl must overcome her fears and travel to a...
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Rabbit-Proof Fence
as MavisIn 1931, three Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as...
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Paper Planes
as MaureenDylan discovers he has a talent for making paper planes. He has a chance to compete in a world...
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The Sapphires
as GailIt's 1968, and four young, talented Australian Aboriginal girls learn about love, friendship and...
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Oddball
as Mayor Lake / NarratorAn eccentric chicken farmer, with the help of his granddaughter, trains his mischievous dog...
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A Few Less Men
as Police OfficerTravel plans for three men in ill-fitting wedding tuxedos goes horribly wrong.
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The New Boy
as Sister MumIn 1940s Australia, a 9-year-old aboriginal orphan arrives in the dead of night at a remote...
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Blinky Bill the Movie
as Blinky's Mother (voice)Blinky Bill is a little koala with a big imagination. An adventurer at heart, he dreams of...
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Mental
as SandraA charismatic, crazy hothead transforms a family's life when she becomes the nanny of five girls.
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Jack Irish: Dead Point
as CynthiaJack Irish is thrown into a world of club owners, drug dealers and killers when he is hired by a...
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The Monkey's Mask
as LouA lesbian private detective dives head first into murder, manipulation and the consuming power...
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Combat Wombat
as Maggie Diggins (voice)Maggie Diggins, a wombat turned Wonder Woman, unintentionally becomes the city's superhero after...
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Bran Nue Dae
as RoxanneIn the Summer of 1965 a young man is filled with the life of the idyllic old pearling port...
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Mabo
as Bonita MaboThe remarkable life story of Eddie 'Koiki' Mabo; a Torres Strait Islander who left school at the...
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Combat Wombat: Back 2 Back
as Maggie Diggins (voice)When the promise of living in a perfect digital world traps the citizens of Sanctuary City...
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Three Summers
as PamSet over three summers at The Westival, a fictional West Australian rural folk festival...
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H Is for Happiness
as Penelope BensonA twelve-year-old girl with boundless optimism and a unique view of the world is inspired by the...
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Redfern Now: Promise Me
as LorraineTwo young women are raped on their way home. The story follows the lives of both women and the...
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The Archive Project
as HerselfIn the context of Australia's cold war a 'hidden history' of Melbourne's Realist film movement...
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Lucky Miles
as Lisa (voice)It's 1990 and an Indonesian fishing boat abandons Iraqi and Cambodian refugees in a remote part...
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The Darkside
as PamelaWriter and Director Warwick Thornton has assembled a collection of the most poignant, sad, funny...
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Play School: Nursery Rhymes
as DeborahFor over 30 years, Play School has been entertaining and teaching thousands of young Australians...
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Radiance
as NonaAfter the death of their mother, three estranged sisters return to their childhood home.
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The Graduate From Sudan
as Self - NarratorVictoria Achut battled her way through medical school and escaped a civil war in Sudan, but her...
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Looking Black
as SelfLooking Black explores the impact of Indigenous storytelling at the ABC, and how it has created...
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Bluey
as Sheepdog 1 (voice)Bluey is an inexhaustible six year-old Blue Heeler dog, who loves to play and turns everyday...
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Rush
as GabeThey are trained to be smarter, tactically superior and technologically advantaged - Melbourne's...
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Offspring
as uncreditedAn exuberant drama set in Melbourne's Fitzroy, centering on Nina Proudman and her struggle to...
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ARK: The Animated Series
as Deborah Walker (voice)In a mysterious primeval land populated by dinosaurs and other extinct creatures, people from...
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The Secret Life of Us
as Kelly LewisThe Secret Life of Us is an Australian television drama series about the lives of 20-30...
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Rove
as SelfRove, formerly Rove Live, was an Australian television variety show which premiered on the Nine...
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Last Days of the Space Age
as Eileen WilberforceIt's the end of an era, and everything is about to change. History is at a turning point, with a...
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Jack Irish
as CynthiaJack Irish is a man getting his life back together again. A former criminal lawyer whose world...
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Boy Swallows Universe
as Poppy BirkbeckA young boy growing up in the suburbs of 1980s Brisbane faces the harsh realities of life — and...
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Please Like Me
as SiobhahAfter breaking up with his girlfriend, Josh comes to the realization that he is homosexual. With...
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Total Control
as Alex IrvingA local Indigenous politician is recruited to the senate by the Australian Prime Minister after...
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Mystery Road
as Kerry ThompsonWhen there is a mysterious disappearance on an outback cattle station, Detective Jay Swan is...
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Cleverman
as Aunty LindaIn the near future, creatures from ancient Aboriginal mythology endowed with extraordinary...
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It's a Date
as JoanneIt's a Date is a comedy series exploring the tension, expectation and complication of finding...
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Wolf Creek
as BernadetteAn anthology series which centers on different characters being targeted by crazed serial killer...
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Tomorrow When the War Began
as KathThis dramatic adventure series tells the story of a group of teenagers who are separated from...
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Redfern Now
as LorraineSix extraordinary stories one unmissable series. Redfern Now is the first drama series written,...
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Bite Club
as Anna MortonAfter surviving a shark attack, homicide detectives Dan Cooper and Zoe Rawlings join forces to...
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AACTA Awards
as SelfThe Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards are a continuum of the AFI...
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The Sound
as Self - Co-HostCelebrating the movers and shakers of the Australian music scene, showcasing some of the...
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Australia's Wild Odyssey
as Narrator (voice)Australia's Wild Odyssey follows the flow of water across the Australian continent to uncover...
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Little J and Big Cuz
as Big Cuz (voice)Little J, he's five and Big Cuz, she's nine. They're a couple of Indigenous Australian kids...
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