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Deborah Jane Mailman, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|size=100|AM}} (born 14 July 1972) is an 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 had 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.

She is well known for having played the character Kelly Lewis on the successful Australian television series, The Secret Life of Us. She is also well known for her current role as Cherie Butterfield in the successful Australian drama series Offspring. She also portrayed the role of Lorraine in the rotating cast of the acclaimed Australian TV series about daily Aboriginal life Redfern Now.

Mailman is currently part of the main cast of the television program Cleverman, in which she portrays the character Aunt Linda.

She starred in lead roles in the acclaimed films Rabbit-Proof Fence, Oddball, The Sapphires, and Paper Planes.

Early life

Mailman grew up in Mount Isa in north-west Queensland.^[1] She is one of five children born to Wally Mailman, a famous rodeo rider and horseman, and Jane (Heeni) Mailman, the daughter of a preacher and talented musician. She has both Indigenous Australian (Bidjara) and Māori (Ngati 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. Since then she has worked extensively in Australian film, television and theatre as well as many contributions overseas.^[2]

Career

Mailman played the role of Kate in a La Boite Theatre production of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew in 1994.^[3]^[4] Other early stage roles include solo show 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 for Bell Shakespeare in 1998.^[5]^[6]

In 1998, Mailman made her film debut as Nona in the Australian independent film Radiance (based on the play), for which she won the AFI Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.^[1] From here she has since become one of Australia's most prominent local actors especially through her lead role on The Secret Life of Us, a role for which she was twice awarded Most Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series at the Logies (2002 and 2004). She stayed during the show's entire duration (2001–2006).

Mailman was featured prominently in the Leah Purcell documentary Black Chicks Talking (2001), where she candidly discussed her thoughts about her Aboriginal heritage.^[7] In 2006, she took part in a four-part television documentary series with Cathy Freeman called Going Bush, where the pair set off on a journey from Broome to Arnhem Land spending time with Indigenous communities along the way.^[8]

She appeared in the Play School TV series and was part of The Actors Company for the Sydney Theatre Company (2006–2007).^[9]

She appeared in the film Rabbit-Proof Fence.^[5] She played a lead role in the 2010 musical film Bran Nue Dae.^[10] In the play The Sapphires and the subsequent film of the same name she played the role of singer Gail McCrae.

She was awarded an Inside Film Award for her short film Ralph, which starred Madeleine Madden.^[11] From 2010 to 2014, she played the role of Cherie Butterfield in Channel Ten's Offspring drama series.^[12]

In 2012, she starred in Redfern Now, an indigenous mini-series for the ABC.^[13]

On 29 January 2015, Mailman co-hosted the AACTA Awards with Cate Blanchett.^[14]

Mailman started as Maureen Prescott in Paper Planes, released 15 January 2015. She then appeared as Mayor Lake in Oddball and the voice of Blinky Bill's mother in Blinky Bill the Movie.

Personal life

Mailman's partner is advertising executive Matthew Coonan. They have two sons, Henry and Oliver.^[15] Deborah has four siblings.

Filmography

Films

Television

Awards and nominations

AACTA Awards

Logie Awards

FCCA Awards

Helpmann Awards

Other awards

References

1. ^¹{{cite news|last1=Lehmann|first1=Megan|title=Darkside star Deborah Mailman moves amid kindred spirits|url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/features/kindred-spirit/story-e6frg8h6-1226755777746|accessdate=16 January 2015|work=The Australian|date=9 November 2013}}
2. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.indigenousscholarships.com.au/resources/ |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2012-12-02 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130125162950/http://www.indigenousscholarships.com.au/resources |archivedate=25 January 2013 |df=dmy-all }} inspirational-stories/deborah-mailman
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4. ^{{cite news|last1=Bryant|first1=Nick|title=The Mailman express: An actress on a roll|url=https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2012/october/1349327287/nick-bryant/mailman-express|accessdate=7 April 2015|work=The Monthly|date=October 2012}}
5. ^¹{{cite news|last1=Prior|first1=Sian|title=Smashing through|url=http://newsstore.fairfax.com.au/apps/viewDocument.ac?page=1&sy=smh&kw=deborah+mailman+and+rabbit-proof+fence&pb=all_pubs&dt=selectRange&dr=entire&so=relevance&sf=text&sf=author&sf=headline&rc=150&rm=200&sp=nrm&clsPage=1&docID=AGE020311V868V7R9DMN|accessdate=7 March 2016|work=The Age|date=11 March 2002}}
6. ^https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/6417
7. ^{{cite news|last1=Jopson|first1=Debra|title=Look at us now|url=http://newsstore.fairfax.com.au/apps/viewDocument.ac?page=1&sy=smh&kw=deborah+mailman+and+black+chicks+talking&pb=all_pubs&dt=selectRange&dr=entire&so=relevance&sf=text&sf=author&sf=headline&rc=150&rm=200&sp=nrm&clsPage=1&docID=SMH020615PQC6F7UFC62|accessdate=7 March 2016|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=15 June 2002}}
8. ^{{cite news|last1=Dwyer|first1=Michael|title=Home and away|url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/tv--radio/gone-bush/2006/01/24/1138066797037.html?page=fullpage|accessdate=16 January 2015|work=The Age|date=26 January 2006}}
9. ^{{cite news|title=The Actors Company's short, fraught life|url=http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/theatre/the-actors-companys-short-fraught-life-20100406-rpaz.html|accessdate=7 March 2016|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=7 April 2010}}
10. ^{{cite news|last1=Hawker|first1=Philippa|title=Indigenous film's world premiere introduces some Bran Nue stars|url=http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2009/08/07/1249350685435.html|accessdate=7 March 2016|work=The Age|date=8 August 2009}}
11. ^{{cite web|title=Ralph|url=http://www.creativespirits.info/resources/movies/ralph|accessdate=30 September 2015}}
12. ^{{ cite web | title = Deborah Mailman | work = Offspring | date = 6 July 2010 | url = http://ten.com.au/offspring-16390.htm | publisher = Network Ten | accessdate = 6 August 2010}} {{Dead link|date=September 2010|bot=H3llBot}}
13. ^{{cite news|last1=Knox|first1=David|title=Cameras roll on Redfern Now|url=http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2012/05/cameras-roll-on-redfern-now.html|accessdate=7 April 2015|publisher=TV Tonight|date=28 May 2012}}
14. ^{{cite news|last1=Domjen|first1=Briana|title=Deborah Mailman and Cate Blanchett to co-host the AACTA Awards|url=http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/sydney-confidential/deborah-mailman-and-cate-blanchett-to-co-host-the-aacta-awards/story-fni0cvc9-1227180834224|accessdate=19 January 2015|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=11 January 2015}}
15. ^[https://web.archive.org/web/20080906214434/http://www.news.com.au/sundayheraldsun/story/0,,21128325-27258,00.html Sunday Herald Sun]
16. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.qld.gov.au/about/events-awards-honours/awards/qld-greats-awards/2012-recipients/|title=2012 Queensland Greats recipients|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=Queensland Government|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170531055129/https://www.qld.gov.au/about/events-awards-honours/awards/qld-greats-awards/2012-recipients/|archive-date=31 May 2017|dead-url=no|access-date=31 May 2017}}