Deborah Mailman
Deborah Mailman was born in Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia on July 14th, 1972 and is the TV Actress. At the age of 51, Deborah Mailman biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Deborah Jane Mailman, (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.
Mailman first gained recognition for the 1998 film Radiance, for which she won her first AFI award. Mailman played the character Kelly Lewis on the Australian television series, The Secret Life of Us.
and current role as Cherie Butterfield in the Australian drama series Offspring.
She portrayed the role of Lorraine in the Australian TV series Redfern Now, and Aunt Linda in the television program Cleverman. Mailman is currently the main character in the Australian TV series Total Control. She had roles in Rabbit-Proof Fence, Oddball, The Sapphires, and Paper Planes.
Personal life
Deborah Jane Mailman was born and grew up in Mount Isa in north-west Queensland. She is one of five children. She has both Aboriginal (Bidjara) and Māori (Ngāti Porou and Te Arawa) heritage. In 1992, she graduated from Queensland University of Technology Academy of the Arts with a Bachelor of Arts majoring in performing arts. She is married with two children.
Career
In a La Boite Theatre performance of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew in 1994, Mailman played Kate. Other early stage appearances include solo performance The Seven Stages of Grieving (which she co-wrote with Wesley Enoch) for Kooemba Jdarra, Queensland Theatre Company's 1997 revival of Louis Nowra's play Radiance, and Cordelia in King Lear's 1998 production of Bell Shakespeare.
Mailman made her film debut in 1998 as Nona in the Australian independent film Radiance (based on the script), for which she received the AFI Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. She appeared in The Unknown Life of Us, for which she was twice named Most Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series at the Logies (2002 and 2004).
Mailman was interviewed in Leah Purcell's documentary Black Chicks Talking (2001), where she addressed her Aboriginal roots. She appeared in Going Bush, a four-part television documentary series with Cathy Freeman, where the pair started a journey from Broome to Arnhem Land, spending time with Indigenous groups along the way.
She appeared on the Play School TV series and was a member of The Actors Company for the Sydney Theatre Company (2006–2007). She appeared on ABC Television show Message Stick.
She appeared in the film Rabbit-Proof Fence. Bran Nue Dae, a 2010 musical film starring She was a lead role. Gail McCrae played her role in the musical The Sapphires and the subsequent film of the same name.
Madeleine Madden appeared in her short film Ralph, which was given an Inside Film Award. Cherie Butterfield appeared in Channel Ten's Offspring drama series from 2010 to 2014.
She appeared in Redfern Now, an ABC indigenous mini-series.
Mailman co-hosted the AACTA Awards with Cate Blanchett on January 29, 2015.
In Paper Planes, Maureen Prescott appeared as Maumee, which was released on January 15, 2015. In Blinky Bill the Movie, she appeared as Mayor Lake in Oddball and as the voice of Blinky Bill's mother.
Mailman joined the Sydney Opera House Trust on February 18, 2015.
In 2019, Mailman was appointed to a three-year term as a member of the Screen Australia Board.
She appeared in Total Control, a Blackfella Films production that was broadcast on the ABC, in 2019.