45 Facts About Mia Wasikowska

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Mia Wasikowska made her screen debut on the Australian television drama All Saints in 2004, followed by her feature film debut in Suburban Mayhem.

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Mia Wasikowska first became known to a wider audience following her critically acclaimed work on the HBO television series In Treatment.

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Mia Wasikowska was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female for the film That Evening Sun.

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Mia Wasikowska 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.

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Mia Wasikowska was born on 25 October 1989 in Canberra, Australia.

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Mia Wasikowska attended Cook Primary School, Ainslie Primary School and Canberra High School, and Karabar High School in Queanbeyan, which neighbours Canberra.

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Mia Wasikowska has an older sister, Jess, and a younger brother, Kai.

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Mia Wasikowska's mother, Marzena Wasikowska, is a Polish-born photographer, while her father, John Reid, is an Australian photographer and collagist.

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At the age of nine, Mia Wasikowska began studying ballet with Jackie Hallahan at the Canberra Dance Development Centre, with hopes of going professional.

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Mia Wasikowska began dancing en pointe at thirteen, and was training 35 hours a week in addition to attending school full-time.

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Mia Wasikowska felt acting in film was a way to explore human imperfections.

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Mia Wasikowska looked up 12 Australian talent agencies on the Internet and contacted them all, but received only one response.

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Mia Wasikowska landed her first acting role in 2004 with a two-episode stint on the Australian soap All Saints.

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In 2007, Mia Wasikowska appeared in the crocodile horror film Rogue, alongside Radha Mitchell and Sam Worthington.

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Mia Wasikowska observed quietly on the set; fellow actor Stephen Curry noted, "We didn't hear a peep out of her for three weeks, which earned her the nickname of 'Rowdy'".

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Mia Wasikowska starred in Spencer Susser's acclaimed short film I Love Sarah Jane, which premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.

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At the age of seventeen, Mia Wasikowska received her first big break role in the United States when she was cast as Sophie, a suicidal gymnast, in HBO's acclaimed weekly drama In Treatment; she auditioned for the role by videotape.

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Mia Wasikowska earned critical acclaim for her performance as the troubled teenager treated by psychotherapist Paul Weston, which included praise for her American accent.

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Mia Wasikowska revealed in an October 2008 interview with Variety that she was something of a mimic as a child, and that the widely available American films and TV shows in Australia made it easier for Australians to learn to speak like Americans.

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Mia Wasikowska played Chaya, the young wife of Asael Bielski in Defiance.

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Mia Wasikowska played the supporting role of Pamela Choat in the 2009 Southern Gothic independent film That Evening Sun opposite Hal Holbrook.

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Mia Wasikowska wanted to cast all native Southerners for the sake of authenticity.

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Mia Wasikowska was nominated for a 2009 Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female, and the film received a South by Southwest award for Best Ensemble Cast.

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In July 2008, Mia Wasikowska was cast as the eponymous heroine in Tim Burton's version of Alice in Wonderland, alongside Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter and Anne Hathaway.

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Mia Wasikowska sent a videotaped audition to casting directors in London, and her first live reading in Los Angeles occurred on the same day as her Evening Sun audition.

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Mia Wasikowska portrayed a nineteen-year-old Alice returning to Wonderland for the first time in over a decade after fleeing from an unwanted marriage proposal.

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Mia Wasikowska's affinity for the character played a part in her desire for the role, as she had read the Lewis Carroll books as a child and was a fan of Jan Svankmajer's 1988 stop-motion film Alice.

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For Lisa Cholodenko's indie comedy The Kids Are All Right, Mia Wasikowska was cast as Joni, the bookish daughter of a lesbian couple who was conceived via artificial insemination.

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From March to May 2010, Mia Wasikowska filmed Cary Fukunaga's adaptation of Jane Eyre, in which she starred as the title character opposite Michael Fassbender as Mr Rochester.

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Mia Wasikowska began reading the novel after completion of Alice in Wonderland, during which she asked her agent if a script existed.

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Mia Wasikowska appeared in Restless, which was filmed from November to December 2009.

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From December 2010 to February 2011, Mia Wasikowska filmed Rodrigo Garcia's Albert Nobbs, for which she was a last-minute replacement for Amanda Seyfried.

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On 21 April 2011, Mia Wasikowska was named in the Time 100, a listing of the world's most influential people, which featured a brief essay written by Albert Nobbs co-star Glenn Close.

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In 2011, Mia Wasikowska played the small supporting role of Shia LaBeouf's character's love interest in John Hillcoat's Lawless.

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Mia Wasikowska made her directorial debut on a segment of The Turning, a collection of short stories by Australian author Tim Winton.

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Mia Wasikowska next played the title role in Sophie Barthes' film adaptation of Madame Bovary, which began shooting on 30 September 2014 in Normandy, France.

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Mia Wasikowska replaced Emma Stone in Guillermo del Toro's gothic romance Crimson Peak, where she starred alongside Tom Hiddleston and Jessica Chastain.

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In 2016, Mia Wasikowska reprised the role of Alice in Alice Through the Looking Glass.

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Mia Wasikowska starred alongside Jason Clarke, Rosamund Pike, Jack O'Connell and Jack Reynor.

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From July to August of 2019, Mia Wasikowska made her theatre debut as Ralph in the Sydney Theatre Company production of Nigel Williams' stage adaptation of William Golding's Lord of the Flies.

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Mia Wasikowska next appeared in Roger Michell's drama Blackbird, alongside Susan Sarandon and Kate Winslet.

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Mia Wasikowska was part of an ensemble cast formed by Tom Holland, Bill Skarsgard, Riley Keough, Sebastian Stan and previous collaborators Clarke and Pattinson, among others names.

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Mia Wasikowska starred in Robert Connolly's family drama Blueback, alongside Eric Bana, which had its world premiere at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival.

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In February 2022, it was announced that Mia Wasikowska would portray an unusual schoolteacher in Jessica Hausner's second English-language film Club Zero.

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From 2013 to 2015, Mia Wasikowska dated actor Jesse Eisenberg, her co-star in The Double.