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{{Short description|Australian actress}}
{{Use Australian English|date=February 2014}}
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{{Infobox person
| name               = Deborah Mailman
| honorific-suffix   = {{postnominals|country=AUS|size=100|AM}}
| image              = Deborah Mailman, August 2012.jpg
| alt                = A dark-haired, smiling woman with long, dangling earrings looks right toward the camera
| caption            = Mailman at ''[[The Sapphires (film)|The Sapphires]]'' Australian premiere in August 2012
| birth_name         = Deborah Jane Mailman
| birth_date         = {{birth date and age|df=y|1972|7|14}}
| birth_place        = [[Mount Isa]], [[Queensland]], Australia
| nationality        = Australian
| alma mater         = [[Queensland University of Technology]]
| occupation         = {{hlist|Actress|singer}}
| years_active       = 1994–present
| partner            = Matthew Coonan
| children           = 2
| website            = 
}}
'''Deborah Jane Mailman''' {{postnominals|country=AUS|size=100|AM}} (born 14 July 1972) is an Australian television and film actress, and singer. Mailman is best known for her characters: [[Parliament of Australia|MP]] Alexandra "Alex" Irving on the Australian political drama series ''[[Total Control (TV series)|Total Control]]'', Kelly Lewis on the Australian drama series ''[[The Secret Life of Us]]'', Cherie Butterfield in the Australian comedy-drama series ''[[Offspring (TV series)|Offspring]]'', Lorraine in the Australian drama series ''[[Redfern Now]]'', Poppy Birkbeck in the miniseries ''[[Boy Swallows Universe (TV series)|Boy Swallows Universe]]'' and Aunt Linda in the Australian dystopian science fiction series ''[[Cleverman (TV series)|Cleverman]]''.

Mailman was the first [[Aboriginal Australians|Aboriginal]] actress to win the [[Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role]], and has gone on to win six more both in television and film.<ref>Note: The awards are now known as the [[AACTA Awards]].</ref> She first gained recognition in the 1998 film ''[[Radiance (1998 film)|Radiance]]'' for which she won her first AFI award. Her other well known films are ''[[Rabbit-Proof Fence]]'', ''[[Bran Nue Dae (film)|Bran Nue Dae]]'', ''[[Oddball (film)|Oddball]]'', ''[[The Sapphires (film)|The Sapphires]]'', ''[[Paper Planes (film)|Paper Planes]]'', ''[[Blinky Bill the Movie]]'', ''[[H Is for Happiness]]'',  and ''[[The Book of Revelation (film)|The Book of Revelation]]''.