Deborah Mailman
Birthday: 1972-07-14
Place of Birth: Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia
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.
Movies
Lucky Miles
It's 1990 and an Indonesian fishing boat abandons Iraqi and Cambodian refugees in a remote part of t...
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Combat Wombat: Back 2 Back
When the promise of living in a perfect digital world traps the citizens of Sanctuary City online, C...
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The New Boy
In 1940s Australia, a nameless nine-year-old Aboriginal orphan arrives in the dead of night at a rem...
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The Sapphires
It's 1968, and four young, talented Australian Aboriginal girls learn about love, friendship, and wa...
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The Darkside
Writer and Director Warwick Thornton has assembled a collection of the most poignant, sad, funny and...
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Jack Irish: Dead Point
Jack Irish is thrown into a world of club owners, drug dealers and killers when he is hired by a jud...
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Looking Black
Looking Black explores the impact of Indigenous storytelling at the ABC, and how it has created deep...
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Scarygirl
As her world is shrouded in darkness, a young girl must overcome her fears and travel to a mysteriou...
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Paper Planes
Dylan discovers he has a talent for making paper planes. He has a chance to compete in a world champ...
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Runt
In the Australian town of Upson Downs, ten-year-old Annie and Runt, her stray dog, attempt to win th...
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Mabo
The remarkable life story of Eddie 'Koiki' Mabo; a Torres Strait Islander who left school at the age...
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Play School: Nursery Rhymes
For over 30 years, Play School has been entertaining and teaching thousands of young Australians wit...
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Rabbit-Proof Fence
In 1931, three Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domesti...
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Blinky Bill the Movie
Blinky Bill is a little koala with a big imagination. An adventurer at heart, he dreams of leaving t...
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Oddball
An eccentric chicken farmer, with the help of his granddaughter, trains his mischievous dog Oddball ...
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Radiance
After the death of their mother, three estranged sisters return to their childhood home....
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Black Chicks Talking
Performer and writer Leah Purcell talks with five dynamic Indigenous women - Rosanna Angus, Kathryn ...
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A Few Less Men
Travel plans for three men go horribly wrong with a race against time to return Luke home....
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Three Summers
Set over three summers at The Westival, a fictional West Australian rural folk festival redoubtable ...
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H Is for Happiness
A twelve-year-old girl with boundless optimism and a unique view of the world is inspired by the str...
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Redfern Now: Promise Me
Two young women are raped on their way home. The story follows the lives of both women and the diffe...
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Bran Nue Dae
In the Summer of 1965 a young man is filled with the life of the idyllic old pearling port Broome - ...
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2067
A lowly utility worker is called to the future by a mysterious radio signal, he must leave his dying...
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The Monkey's Mask
A lesbian private detective dives head first into murder, manipulation and the consuming power of se...
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Combat Wombat
Maggie Diggins, a wombat turned Wonder Woman, unintentionally becomes the city's superhero after she...
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The Archive Project
In the context of Australia's cold war a 'hidden history' of Melbourne's Realist film movement (1945...
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Mental
A charismatic, crazy hothead transforms a family's life when she becomes the nanny of five girls....
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Kangaroo
Ex TV personality, Chris Masterman, becomes stranded in an Outback town outside Alice Springs. There...
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The Graduate From Sudan
Victoria Achut battled her way through medical school and escaped a civil war in Sudan, but her bigg...
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The Third Note
A blind woman and her neighbour discover a common bond after battling each other with sound....
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Total Control
Alex Irving, an Indigenous woman, gets media attention after her heroic action. Her life then change...
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Wolfram
Aboriginal children are forced into wolfram (tungsten) mining until violence entangles them with rut...
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The Book of Revelation
An erotic mystery about power and sex, the entanglement of victim and perpetrator, and a man's strug...
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