Deborah Mailman

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Deborah Mailman at the Australian premiere of The Sapphires in August 2012

Deborah Mailman (* 14 July 1972 in Mount Isa , North West in Queensland ) is an Australian actress in film, television and theater. She played in several movies, including Paradise Trouble, The Monkey Mask, Long Walk Home and The Sapphires .

life and career

After studying at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, where she studied drama, she mainly worked as an actress in the theater. She is a member of the Aboriginal theater group , Kooemba Djarra in Brisbane, and co-writer of the play Seven Stages of Grieving. Her theater work includes appearances with the Aboriginal Sydney Theater Company (e.g. in Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream ) or the production The Small Poppies of the Sydney Belvoir Street Theater, as well as the tour production of Seven Stages of Grieving.

In addition to her theater work, Deborah Mailman has played over 20 film and television roles as an actress. Since the late 1990s she has played roles on the screen, including in Chris Cudlipp's adventure comedy Paradise Trouble with Bryan Brown , in Samantha Lang's thriller The Monkey Mask, in Phillip Noyce's award-winning Aboriginal drama Long Walk Home and in Wayne Blairs Comedy The Sapphires.

Deborah Mailman is the first Aboriginal actress to win an Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress.

Between 2005 and 2014 her television appearances include appearances in episodes of Australian television series, including: The Alice (2005), Two Twisted (2006), Rush (2009), Redfern Now (2012-2013), It's a Date (2014) and Black Comedy (2014). She played more extensive television roles from 2001 to 2005 as Kelly Lewis in 86 episodes of the television series The Secret Life of Us. From 2010 to 2014 she played the role of Cherie Butterfield in 49 episodes of the television series Offspring .

Awards (selection)

  • 1998: Australian Film Institute Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in the film Radiance
  • 2009: Australian Film Institute Award for Best Supporting Actress in the film Bran Nue Dae
  • 2013: Australian Film Institute Award for Best Lead Actress in The Sapphires

Filmography (selection)

movie theater

  • 1998: Radiance
  • 1999: Paradise Trouble (Dear Claudia)
  • 2000: The Monkey's Mask (reference title Die Affenmaske )
  • 2002: Long Walk Home (Rabbit-Proof Fence)
  • 2006: The Book of Revelation
  • 2007: Lucky Miles
  • 2009: Bran Nue Dae
  • 2012: The Sapphires
  • 2012: Mental
  • 2014: Paper Planes
  • 2015: Blinky Bill the Movie
  • 2015: Oddball
  • 2017: Three Summers
  • 2019: H Is for Happiness

Short film

  • 2000: The Third Note

watch TV

  • 2001: The Secret Life of Us (TV movie)
  • 2001–2005: The Secret Life of Us (TV series, 86 episodes)
  • 2005: The Alice (TV series, 2 episodes)
  • 2006: Two Twisted (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 2007: Stupid Stupid Man (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 2009: Rush (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 2010-2016: Offspring (TV series, 59 episodes)
  • 2012: Mabo (TV movie)
  • 2012–2013: Redfern Now (TV series, 2 episodes)
  • 2014: Redfern Now: Promise Me (TV movie)
  • 2014: Jack Irish: Dead Point (TV movie)
  • 2014: It's a Date (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 2014–2016: Black Comedy (TV series, 9 episodes)
  • 2015: Redfern Now: Promise Me (TV movie)
  • 2016: Cleverman (TV series, 6 episodes)
  • 2018: Mystery Road - Disappeared in the Outback (TV series, 6 episodes)

literature

  • Parmita Kapadia, Craig Dionne: Deborah Mailman. Native Shakespeares: Indigenous Appropriations on a Global Stage. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2013

Web links

Commons : Deborah Mailman  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Deborah Mailman in: The New York Times