Mia Wasikowska

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Mia Wasikowska at the premiere of the film Damsel in February 2018 at the Berlinale

Mia Wasikowska (born October 14, 1989 in Canberra ) is an Australian actress . She gained fame primarily through appearances on US television ( In Treatment ) and cinema (including Alice in Wonderland , The Kids Are All Right and Jane Eyre ).

Life

childhood and education

Her Australian father, John Reid, teaches photography at the Canberra School of Art and the Australian National University (ANU). Her Polish mother Marzena Wasikowska emigrated from Poland to Australia at the age of twelve , teaches in the same subject and works as an artist.

Wasikowska grew up with an older sister and a younger brother in Canberra's Cook district . She describes her childhood as "surrounded by all kinds of art and culture". Her mother let her pose for photos as a child and took her on a year-long photo tour to Poland, France , Germany and Russia when she was eight . “I always had fun being photographed by my mother. We were never afraid to smile or play […]. We did our things and she took pictures of us. Just like I like working in films. I like to be captivated by what my character is doing, ” said Wasikowska. Her mother also introduced her to European cinema and independent films. Her early favorite films include Gillian Armstrong's My Brilliant Career , Krzysztof Kieślowski's Three-Color Trilogy, and Gus Van Sant's Elephant .

The rather shy Wasikowska, like her siblings, devoted herself to dancing at an early age. In addition to school, she trained ballet and modern dance up to 35 hours a week . But due to the burden and her perfectionism, Wasikowska gave up the desire to become a dancer at the age of 14 and devoted herself to acting. “I've seen a lot of films that were about the opposite, imperfection, and I really liked that. I thought I'd give acting a try, I never really expected it to go uphill, ” said Wasikowska. With the help of her mother, she did her first test shoots at a talent agency in Sydney that same year . Although Wasikowska never attended drama school, she soon got a small part as the troubled daughter of a brothel owner in the Australian television series All Saints , followed by roles in student shorts at the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS).

Success in Australian film and international offers

The breakthrough as an actress came in 2006 with Paul Goldman's Suburban Mayhem . Wasikowska starred in the drama as the young and innocent Lilya who works as a manicurist in a beauty salon and is corrupted and seduced into sex, drugs and violence by the narcissistic main character (played by Emily Barclay ). Her feature film debut that same year earned the 16-year-old a nomination for best young actress at the Australian Film Institute Awards , Australia's most important film award. Further appearances in short film productions followed, including the title role in Samantha Rebillets Cosette in 2007 , in which Wasikowska can be seen as the daughter of a hermit, who is dependent on herself after her father's death and who gradually manages to find her way back to civilization .

In 2007 Wasikowska was also back in Australian cinemas with supporting roles in Peter Carstairs ' 68 drama September and Greg Mclean's thriller Rogue (both in 2007). In Rogue she played alongside Radha Mitchell and Michael Vartan the role of an English tourist whose mother has cancer. Wasikowska left Hawker College in Canberra prematurely after several months of filming in the Northern Territory and Victoria and took distance learning . At the same time, she applied with test shots for an American film production. She didn't get the role, but after auditioning in the United States, she was signed to an agency there. This arranged for her to audition for the US television series In Treatment - The Therapist . Wasikowska received one of the lead roles in the format, which aired on HBO from January 2008 . Gabriel Byrne played a psychotherapist in it who, among other things, looked after a young self-destructive gymnast, portrayed by Wasikowska, with Olympic dreams. She received high praise from US critics for her portrayal and in June 2008, together with Abbie Cornish ( Stop-Loss ), she received the Breakthrough Award from the Australian Film Institute . In the same year she was included in the list of the top ten "Actors to watch" by the American industry service Variety .

International cinema

Mia Wasikowska (2015)

After becoming known to a broad American television audience through In Treatment , she received roles in Edward Zwick's war drama Defiance - For My Brothers Who Never Gave Up and Mira Nair's Amelia Earhart biography Amelia , in which she worked alongside such well-known people Colleagues like Daniel Craig , Hilary Swank and Richard Gere could be seen. At the end of July 2008 it was announced that Wasikowska would interpret the title role alongside Johnny Depp in Tim Burton's remake of the children's classic Alice in Wonderland , which was released in early March 2010. Alice in Wonderland was a huge hit at the box office. The film took second place behind the animated film Toy Story 3 with worldwide box office profits of over one billion US dollars . In the same year followed a supporting role in Lisa Cholodenko's The Kids Are All Right . In the award-winning comedy, Wasikowska played the daughter of a lesbian couple (played by Annette Bening and Julianne Moore ), who was conceived by artificial insemination and who wanted to meet her biological father. By the box office success of both films (US $ 1.03 billion) finished the Australian actress in December 2010, according to a survey by Forbes Magazine in collaboration with Johnny Depp ( Alice in Wonderland and The Tourist ) behind Leonardo DiCaprio ( Shutter Iceland and Inception ) second place the most financially successful actors in Hollywood .

Mia Wasikowska names actresses Emily Barclay , Cate Blanchett , Abbie Cornish , Miranda Otto and Holly Hunter and Robin Wright Penn as role models. She is also enthusiastic about the more recent films by Gus Van Sant, with whom she worked for the 2011 drama Restless . In it she played a terminally ill girl who falls in love with a death-yearning boy (played by Henry Hopper ). That same year, the title role followed Jane Eyre alongside Michael Fassbender in Cary Fukunagas eponymous film adaptation of Charlotte Brontë and the part as an object of desire of Glenn Close in the period drama Albert Nobbs . In 2012 Wasikowska appeared in the US historical film Lawless in the supporting role of a Mennonite preacher's daughter, with which lead actor Shia LaBeouf falls in love.

In 2013 Wasikowska starred in Park Chan-wook's horror thriller Stoker alongside Nicole Kidman and Matthew Goode and in 2014 as Madame Bovary in a new production by Sophie Barthes . In 2015 she took on a leading role again, this time in Guillermo del Toro's fantasy film Crimson Peak .

Private life

Despite her success in Hollywood, Wasikowska describes herself in interviews as a down-to-earth person who spends the time between business appointments and trips with his parents in Canberra. In addition to her cinematic work, she advertised, among other things, as a model for the fashion label Miumiu and, like her parents, she pursues photography. Wasikowska reached the finals of a competition organized by the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra with a picture taken while filming Jane Eyre .

Filmography

Mia Wasikowska (2010)

Awards

  • 2006: Nomination for the Australian Film Institute Award for Suburban Mayhem (Best New Actress)
  • 2008: Breakthrough Award at the Australian Film Institute Awards for In Treatment
  • 2009: Nomination for the Australian Film Institute International Award for In Treatment (Best Actress)
  • 2009: Special prize of the jury of the SXSW Film Festival for That Evening Sun (together with the other actors of the drama ensemble)
  • 2010: Nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for That Evening Sun (Best Supporting Actress)
  • 2010: Hollywood Breakthrough Award from the Hollywood Film Festival
  • 2010: Australian Film Institute International Award for Alice in Wonderland (Best Actress)
  • 2010: Teen Choice Award for Alice in Wonderland (Best Film Fight), two further nominations (Best Fantasy Actress and Best Young Actress)
  • 2011: Chlotrudis Award for The Kids Are All Right (together with the other actors of the drama ensemble)
  • 2011: Nomination for the Empire Award for Alice in Wonderland (Best New Actress)
  • 2011: Nomination for the British Independent Film Award for Jane Eyre (Best Actress)
  • 2012: Nomination for the AACTA International Award for Jane Eyre (Best Actress)

Web links

Commons : Mia Wasikowska  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Natalie Reilly, Erika Woods, Katherine Tulich: Fresh crop. In: The Sun Herald , January 11, 2009, p. 10.
  2. ↑ a b c d Mia soars swiftly to shine in spotlight. In: Canberra Times , Oct 21, 2006, p. 4.
  3. ↑ a b c d Johanna Schneller: No longer a kid, and more than all right. In: The Globe and Mail , July 10, 2010, p. R3.
  4. ^ David Hinckley, 'In Treatment' Stands Up To Close Analysis. In: Daily News (New York), March 26, 2008, p. 81.
  5. ↑ Jon Carroll: Jon Carroll. In: The San Francisco Chronicle , March 17, 2008, p. E2.
  6. ↑ Ryan, Maureen: HBO has a breakthrough moment with 'In Treatment' . In: Chicago Tribune, February 22, 2008, Entertainment News (accessed via LexisNexis Business ).
  7. ↑ Australians in Film's (AiF) 2008 Breakthrough Awards Honor Abbie Cornish and Mia Wasikowska. Business Wire , May 28, 2008, Los Angeles 10:15 AM GMT (accessed via LexisNexis Business ).
  8. ↑ Malina Saval: Mia Wasikowska. In: Variety , October 28, 2008, p. A16.
  9. ↑ dpa / EFE : Johnny Depp becomes a crazy hatter at fr-online.de, July 28, 2008 (accessed on July 30, 2008)
  10. ↑ Einspiel-Ranking: Hollywood's Goldesel at Spiegel Online , December 23, 2010 (accessed December 24, 2010)
  11. ↑ Lange, Nadine: Character instead of teenagers . In: Der Tagesspiegel , November 14, 2010, No. 20798, p. 32.
  12. ↑ Gostin, Nicki: Jane Eyre 'Star Mia Wasikowska on Keeping It Classy and Losing Her Accent at popeater.com, March 11, 2011 (accessed June 15, 2012).
  13. ↑ Mia Wasikowska is the new face of Miu Miu at fashion.telegraph.co.uk, January 12, 2012 (accessed June 15, 2012).
  14. ↑ Allen, Christopher: A picture is more than just words at theaustralian.com.au, March 29, 2011 (accessed June 15, 2012).
personal data
SURNAME Wasikowska, Mia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian actress
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Canberra , Australian Capital Territory , Australia