Biography
Originally hailing from Australia, she has starred in notable films around the world. Her breakout film in America was Lisa Cholodenko's award-winning High Art, in which Ms. Mitchell had the lead role opposite Ally Sheedy. She then starred in and produced the independent feature Everything Put Together, which was the breakthrough film for director Marc Forster; and starred in David Twohy's sleeper hit adventure thriller Pitch Black, which introduced Vin Diesel as his iconic Riddick character. She reprised her role as Leah Banning in London Has Fallen after first having starred opposite Gerard Butler in the hit Olympus Has Fallen, directed by Antoine Fuqua.
Ms. Mitchell shared a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture with her fellow actors from the ensemble of Finding Neverland, which reteamed her with director Marc Forster. Her other films include Robert Benton's Feast of Love and Mimi Leder's Thick as Thieves, both also with Morgan Freeman; Christophe Gans' Silent Hill, for which she was an Australian Film Institute nominee as Best Actress; Emma-Kate Croghan's Love and Other Catastrophes; Rodrigo Garcia's Ten Tiny Love Stories; Joel Schumacher's Phone Booth; Tony Scott's Man on Fire; Woody Allen's Melinda and Melinda, starring in a dual performance in the title role(s); Petter Næss' Mozart and the Whale; Mark Pellington's Henry Poole is Here; Jonathan Mostow's Surrogates; Breck Eisner's The Crazies; Claire McCarthy's The Waiting City, which she co-produced; and the upcoming supernatural thriller The Darkness, starring opposite Kevin Bacon and directed by Greg McLean.
On television, Ms. Mitchell starred as the title character in ABC's drama series Red Widow; and in Jon Avnet's acclaimed NBC miniseries Uprising, with Hank Azaria and Donald Sutherland, which dramatized the real-life Warsaw Ghetto battle against the Nazis in WWII.
Focus Features
Actress
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2023 |
Last Days of the Space Age |
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Episode 8 (E08) |
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Episode 7 (E07) |
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Episode 6 (E06) |
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2022 |
Troppo |
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Episode 5 (E05) |
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Episode 4 (E04) |
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Episode 2 (E02) |
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2018 |
The Romanoffs |
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Panorama (E06) |
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2013 |
NCIS: Los Angeles |
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Iron Curtain Rising (S05E11) |
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Red Widow |
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The Hit (E08) |
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The Coke (E07) |
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The Captive (E06) |
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1995 |
Halifax f.p. |
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My Lovely Girl (S01E04) |
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1994 |
Blue Heelers |
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1993 |
Law of the Land |
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1992 |
Phoenix |
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1991 |
All Together Now |
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1988 |
Sugar and Spice |
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1985 |
Neighbours |
Documentaries | |
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2009 |
Silent Hill : Entre deux mondes |
2006 |
Path of Darkness: Making 'Silent Hill' |
2005 |
Vengeance Is Mine: Reinventing 'Man on Fire' |
2002 |
HypaSpace Weekly (series) |
1999 |
Celebrity Profile: Ally Sheedy (TV movie) |
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2016 |
Whoever Was Using This Bed |
2015 |
Barbados |
2008 |
What We Take from Each Other |
1999 |
Sleeping Beauties |
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2002 |
Four Reasons |
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