Mia Wasikowska is an Australian actress, voice actress, and director, who portrayed Alice Kingsleigh in Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass. She is well known for her debut role as Lily Watson in the Seven Network series All Saints and as Sophie in the HBO series In Treatment.
Biography[]
She made her screen debut on the Australian television drama All Saints in 2004, followed by her feature film debut in Suburban Mayhem. She first became known to a wider audience following her critically acclaimed work on the HBO television series In Treatment. She was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female for the film That Evening Sun.
Wasikowska gained worldwide recognition in 2010 after starring as Alice in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland and appearing 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, and Guillermo del Toro's Crimson Peak. In 2016, she reprised her role as Alice in the film, Alice Through the Looking Glass, and has since appeared in a number of independent films, including Damsel, Judy and Punch, and Bergman Island.
Wasikowska's sole release of 2020 was Netflix's The Devil All the Time, an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Donald Ray Pollock directed by Antonio Campos. She was part of an ensemble cast formed by Tom Holland, Bill Skarsgård, Riley Keough, Sebastian Stan and previous collaborators Jason Clarke and Robert Pattinson, among others names.
In February 2022, it was announced that Wasikowska would portray an unusual schoolteacher in Jessica Hausner's second English-language film Club Zero. The film was selected to compete for the "Palme d'Or" at the "76th Cannes Film Festival", where it had its world premiere on May 22, 2023.
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- Wasikowska resides in Sydney, Australia.
- Wasikowska is an avid photographer
- Wasikowska speaks some Polish.