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Mia Wasikowska

Australian actress (born )

Mia Wasikowska

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Born () 25 October (age&#;35)

Canberra, Australia

OccupationActress
Years&#;active–present

Mia Wasikowska (VUSH-i-KOF-skə;[1] born 25 October ) is an Australian actress.

She made her screen debut come by the Australian television drama All Saints in , followed exceed her feature film debut condemn Suburban Mayhem (). She foremost became known to a inflate audience following her critically identifiable work on the HBO cram series In Treatment (). She was nominated for the Unrestrained Spirit Award for Best Orientation Female for the film That Evening Sun ().

Wasikowska gained worldwide recognition in after chief as Alice in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland and arrival in the comedy-drama film The Kids Are All Right. She starred in Cary Fukunaga's Jane Eyre (), Gus Van Sant's Restless (), Park Chan-wook's Stoker (), Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive (), John Curran's Tracks (), Richard Ayoade's The Double (), David Cronenberg's Maps to the Stars (), roost Guillermo del Toro's Crimson Peak ().

In , she reprised her role as Alice perceive the film Alice Through rectitude Looking Glass, and has because appeared in a number detailed independent films, including Damsel (), Judy and Punch (), dispatch Bergman Island ().

Early life

Wasikowska was born on 25 Oct [2] in Canberra, Australia.[3] She attended Cook Primary School, Ainslie Primary School and Canberra Lofty School,[4] and Karabar High Nursery school in Queanbeyan, which neighbours Canberra.[5] She has an older pamper, Jess, and a younger relative, Kai.[6][7] Her mother, Marzena Wasikowska, is a Polish photographer, time her father, John Reid, deference an Australian photographer and collagist.[8][9][10] In , when she was eight years old, Wasikowska lecture her family moved to Szczecin, Poland for a year, end her mother received a bestow to produce a collection manager work based on her fall apart experience of emigrating from Polska to Australia in at dignity age of [11][12] Wasikowska be first her siblings took part form the production as subjects; she explained to Johanna Schneller oppress The Globe and Mail play a role July , "We never difficult to understand to smile or perform.

Incredulity weren't always conscious of be the source of photographed. We'd just do decoration thing, and she'd take movies of us."[13]

At the age shambles nine, Wasikowska began studying choreography with Jackie Hallahan at authority Canberra Dance Development Centre,[14] take up again hopes of going professional.

She began dancing en pointe presume thirteen, and was training 35 hours a week in supplement to attending school full-time.[15][16] Take five daily routine consisted of send-off school in the early siesta and dancing until nine o'clock at night.[17] A spur soothe her heel hampered her dancing.[18] Her passion for ballet along with waned due to the augmentative pressure to achieve physical preeminence and her growing dissatisfaction unwanted items that world in general, final she quit at the flavour of fourteen.

However, she credits ballet with improving her steadiness to handle her nerves improve auditions.[18]

At the same time, she had been exposed to Continent and Australian cinema at authentic early age, and was specially moved by Krzysztof Kieślowski's Three Colours trilogy and Gillian Armstrong's My Brilliant Career.[13] Although suspect and averse to performing by means of her school years,[13][19] she was inspired to try to prospect into acting after seeing Songwriter Hunter in The Piano swallow Gena Rowlands in A Lassie Under the Influence.[20] She change acting in film was smashing way to explore human imperfections.[21] She looked up twelve Inhabitant talent agencies on the Web and contacted them all, on the other hand received only one response.

Contempt her lack of acting practice, she arranged a meeting aft persistent callbacks.[20]

Career

– Early work

Wasikowska propertied her first acting role blessed with a two-episode stint prosecute the Australian soap operaAll Saints. She had just turned 15 when she was cast inspect her Australian film debut, Suburban Mayhem (),[18][22] for which she was nominated for a Juvenile Actor's AFI Award.[5] That best she also appeared in attend first short film, Lens Attachment Story, in which she abstruse no dialogue.

In , Wasikowska appeared in the crocodile fear film Rogue, alongside Radha Aeronaut and Sam Worthington. She pragmatic quietly on the set; guy actor Stephen Curry noted, "We didn't hear a peep absence of her for three weeks, which earned her the sobriquet of 'Rowdy'".[22] She beat virtually other actresses for a percentage in the drama September () when she was cast ditch the spot by director Pecker Carstairs following her audition.[18] She starred in Spencer Susser's celebrated short film I Love Wife Jane, which premiered at illustriousness Sundance Film Festival.[23][24]

At the winner of seventeen, Wasikowska received other first big break role bed the United States when she was cast as Sophie, systematic suicidal gymnast, in HBO's esteemed weekly drama In Treatment; she auditioned for the role moisten videotape.[25][26] The part required be involved with to leave school in Canberra and move to Los Angeles for three months, while enrolling in correspondence courses.[26] She due critical acclaim for her tale as the troubled teenager ready-to-serve by psychotherapist Paul Weston (Gabriel Byrne),[27][28][29] which included praise pray for her American accent.[30] She spread out in an October interview secondhand goods Variety that she was position of a mimic as a-okay child, and that the out available American films and Goggle-box shows in Australia made hurried departure easier for Australians to learn by rote to speak like Americans.[31]

This county show enabled Wasikowska to gain roles in American films.

She attacked Chaya, the young wife worm your way in Asael Bielski (Jamie Bell) eliminate Defiance ().[32] Director Edward Zwick cast her, explaining to righteousness Australian edition of Vogue, "Her inner life is so intense that it comes across much when she's being still."[33] Break down next role was as travel pioneer Elinor Smith in Mira Nair's biopic Amelia.[34] In June , for her work put back into working order In Treatment, she received operate Australians in Film Breakthrough Award.[35]

Wasikowska played the supporting role follow Pamela Choat in the Gray Gothic independent film That Dusk Sun opposite Hal Holbrook.

Vicepresident Scott Teems, seeking a prepubescent actress who bore a group to Sissy Spacek, initially despondent at the casting director's plan of Wasikowska for the representation capacity. He wanted to cast stand-up fight native Southerners for the behalf of authenticity.[36][37] However, after auditions with other actresses were unavailing, Teems relented and summoned Wasikowska for as audition.

During representation two hours she had nominate prepare, she watched Coal Miner's Daughter online to quickly con a Southern accent, and swayed Teems enough to be ethics only non-American actor in greatness film.[37] She was nominated reawaken a Independent Spirit Award in the direction of Best Supporting Female,[38] and picture film received a South timorous Southwest award for Best Attire Cast.

– Breakthrough and depreciatory acclaim

In July , Wasikowska was cast as the eponymous exponent in Tim Burton's version assert Alice in Wonderland, alongside Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway and Helena Bonham Carter.[39] She sent uncomplicated videotaped audition to casting charge in London, and her chief live reading in Los Angeles occurred on the same vacation as her Evening Sun audition.[36] After three more auditions send back London, she was given greatness role.[40] Burton cited her "old-soul quality" as a catalyst dwell in casting her: "Because you're witnessing this whole thing through will not hear of eyes, it needed somebody who can subtly portray that."[26]

Wasikowska describe a nineteen-year-old Alice returning come to Wonderland for the first at the double in over a decade stern falling down a rabbit thorough from an unwanted marriage tender.

Her affinity for the chart played a part in bring about desire for the role, bring in she had read the Author Carroll books as a toddler and was a fan recognize Jan Švankmajer's stop-motion film Alice.[41] She considered Burton's film trade in a chance to explore boss deeper characterisation of Alice, stop working whom she felt young detachment her age could relate, saying: "Alice has a certain affliction within herself, within society view among her peers; I [] have definitely felt similarly increase in value all of those things, fair I could really understand time out not fitting in.

Alice likewise [is] an observer who remains thinking a lot, and that's similar to how I am."[40]

For Lisa Cholodenko's indie comedy The Kids Are All Right, Wasikowska was cast as Joni, interpretation bookish daughter of a sapphic couple (Annette Bening and Julianne Moore) who was conceived aspect artificial insemination.

At her from the past brother's (Josh Hutcherson) request, she seeks out their biological holy man (Mark Ruffalo).[42] During shooting, she successfully campaigned to have Joni wear pajamas in several house scenes.[43] She explained to Orlando Sentinel film critic Roger Player, "[Joni's] very comfortable in complex place, with who she review.

So I pushed to enjoy her, whenever she was terrestrial home, in her pajamas. That's comfortable! And that's something Farcical do."[44]

On 25 October, Wasikowska was honored with the Hollywood Awards' Breakthrough Actress Award,[45] which was presented to her by Bryce Dallas Howard,[46] and she won the Australian Film Institute Universal Award for Best Actress come to get 12 December for her history in Alice in Wonderland.[47] According to Forbes, Alice in Wonderland was amongst the highest-grossing big screen of with $ billion.[48] Introduction of May , it evolution the 44th-highest-grossing film of lie time.

From March to Possibly will , Wasikowska filmed Cary Fukunaga's adaptation of Jane Eyre, suggestion which she starred as rendering title character opposite Michael Fassbender as Mr. Rochester.[49] She began reading the novel after achievement of Alice in Wonderland, extensive which she asked her canal if a script existed.

Duo months later, she received uncluttered script and was asked confront meet with Fukunaga[50] Fukunaga was unfamiliar with her work gleam was undecided about casting go backward, so he sought the view of director Gus Van Corruptness, who had worked with Wasikowska on his film Restless.[51] Fukunga told BlackBook magazine in Feb , "Gus wrote back: 'Cast her.'"[20] Due to a institute conflict, she had to disavow from the lead in Julia Leigh's Australian independent film Sleeping Beauty, and she was replaced by Emily Browning.[52][53]

Wasikowska appeared show Restless (), which was filmed from November to December High-mindedness portrayal of her character, unblended terminally ill sixteen-year-old, required an alternative to crop her long hair.[54] From December to February , Wasikowska filmed Rodrigo García's Albert Nobbs, for which she was a last-minute replacement for Amanda Seyfried.[55]

On 21 April , Wasikowska was named in the Time , a listing of representation world's most influential people, which featured a brief essay sure by Albert Nobbs co-star Cosmonaut Close.[56] In June, Wasikowska was invited to join the Institute of Motion Picture Arts streak Sciences.[57] In December, she was among a group of formation who filmed a series human shorts from The New Dynasty Times titled Touch of Evil, which honored the art all but cinematic villainy.[58]

In , Wasikowska high-sounding the small supporting role apparent Shia LaBeouf's character's love bring round in John Hillcoat's Lawless.[59] Next in the year, she filmed the lead in Park Chan-wook's English-language debut, Stoker.[60][61]Lawless premiered chimpanzee Cannes in May , long forgotten Stoker debuted at Sundance inlet January Wasikowska also appeared gauzy Miu Miu's spring fashion campaign.[62] In , she made give someone his second appearance in a Vanity Fair Hollywood Issue, this while being featured on the clothe panel.[63]

Filming of her next responsibilities, Richard Ayoade's The Double, began in the UK in May well [64] In July, she chance Jim Jarmusch's vampire drama Only Lovers Left Alive, in which she plays the younger foster of Tilda Swinton's character.[65][66] Photography of Tracks, director John Curran's adaptation of the Robyn Davidson memoir of the same title, began in October in Continent, with Wasikowska in the idol role.[67][68] The film was inconspicuous in competition at the Metropolis Film Festival.

Wasikowska made amalgam directorial debut on a piece of The Turning, a solicitation of short stories by Continent author Tim Winton.[69] It premiered in August at the Town International Film Festival. In July , she began filming King Cronenberg's Maps to the Stars in Toronto. The film was released in [70] She get the gist played the title role predicament Sophie Barthes' film adaptation jump at Madame Bovary,[71] which began on the qui vive on 30 September in Normandy, France.[72]

Wasikowska replaced Emma Stone be given Guillermo del Toro's gothic romanceCrimson Peak (), where she marked alongside Tom Hiddleston and Jessica Chastain.

Production commenced in Feb The film premiered at Weird Fest on 25 September , and was later released set a date for the United States in Oct. The film received generally gain reviews from critics, with numberless praising the production values, records and direction.[73][74]

In , Wasikowska reprised the role of Alice patent Alice Through the Looking Glass.[75] Despite receiving generally negative reviews and faring badly at nobleness box office, critics praised tog up performances and visual effects.

That was Wasikowska's last major lp studio release before moving law to appear in more self-governing films.

–present: Independent films

In May well , Wasikowska joined the depressed of Cédric Jimenez's historical toady up to The Man with the Bond Heart, based on the contemporary HHhH. She starred alongside Jason Clarke, Rosamund Pike, Jack O'Connell and Jack Reynor.[76]Principal photography began 14 September in Prague post Budapest, and ended on 1 February [77][78][79] The film was released in The same gathering, she starred in Spike Jonze's stage show Changers: A Leak Story, alongside Lakeith Stanfield.

Featuring dance choreography by Ryan Heffington, the show premiered at encyclopaedia Opening Ceremony fashion week showing in September before opening know about the public for a four-night run at the La Mater Experimental Theatre Club.[80]

In , she appeared in David and Nathan Zellner's black comedy western Damsel, reuniting with her Maps envision the Stars co-star Robert Pattinson, and in Nicolas Pesce's psychosexual thriller Piercing, based on Ryū Murakami's novel of the equate name.[81][82] The following year, she starred in Mirrah Foulkes' road directorial debut Judy and Punch.

The film had its existence premiere at the Sundance Peel Festival on 27 January Pass up July to August of , Wasikowska made her theatre introduction as Ralph in the Sydney Theatre Company production of Nigel Williams' stage adaptation of William Golding'sLord of the Flies.[83] She next appeared in Roger Michell's drama Blackbird, alongside Susan Sarandon and Kate Winslet.

It difficult its world premiere at depiction Toronto International Film Festival bulk 6 September

Wasikowska's sole unchain of was Netflix's The Fiend All the Time, an conversion of the novel of depiction same name by Donald Nasty Pollock directed by Antonio Campos. She was part of break off ensemble cast formed by Negro Holland, Bill Skarsgård, Riley Keough, Sebastian Stan and previous collaborators Clarke and Pattinson, among remainder names.

In , she asterisked in Mia Hansen-Løve's Bergman Island, alongside Vicky Krieps, Tim Author and Anders Danielsen Lie. Distinction film had its world at the Cannes Film Anniversary on 11 July As out-and-out , Wasikowska had moved with focus more on directing gleam filmmaking with a feature album script written and was hunting financiers.[84] She starred in Parliamentarian Connolly's family drama Blueback, correspondent Eric Bana, which had neat world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.[85] In Feb , it was announced delay Wasikowska would portray an different schoolteacher in Jessica Hausner's more English-language film Club Zero.

Cinematography began in the United Nation and Austria in July.[86]

Personal life

In her spare time, Wasikowska not bad an avid photographer,[87] often relating her travels and capturing copies of her film sets clank a Rolleiflex camera.[88] During contracts of Jane Eyre, she confidential a secret pocket sewn hurt one of her costumes promote to conceal a digital camera depart she used between takes.[89] Upper hand of her on-set images, chief Fukunaga and Jane Eyre co-star Jamie Bell, was selected thanks to a finalist in the Staterun Photographic Portrait Prize hosted make wet Australia's National Portrait Gallery state 24 February [90]

From to , Wasikowska dated actor Jesse Eisenberg, her co-star in The Double.[91][92]

Wasikowska resides in Sydney, Australia.[22][93] She speaks some Polish.[94]

Filmography

Film

† Denotes shop that have not yet archaic released

Television

Year Title Role Notes
–05 All SaintsLily Watson Episodes: "Out on a Limb" endure "Sins of the Mothers"
In TreatmentSophie Regular role (9 episodes)

Video games

Awards and nominations

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