1. Radha Rani Amber Indigo Ananda Mitchell was born on 12 November 1973 and is an Australian actress.
18 Facts About Radha Mitchell
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Radha Mitchell began her career on television, playing Catherine O'Brien on the Australian soap opera Neighbours, before transitioning to working in Hollywood.
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Radha Mitchell's first credited screen role was that of an eleven-year-old girl from the Australian bush sent to live with her grandmother, on the ABC TV children's television series Sugar and Spice, which was broadcast between 1988 and 1989.
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Radha Mitchell then enrolled at Swinburne University of Technology, with the idea of becoming a psychologist.
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Radha Mitchell played a recurring character in the sitcom All Together Now and guest-starred in Phoenix, Law of the Land and Blue Heelers.
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Radha Mitchell quickly "established herself as a versatile and accomplished fixture on the moody art-house flick circuit".
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Radha Mitchell was acclaimed for her performance of a young female intern at a magazine company who becomes involved with a drug-addicted lesbian photographer.
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Radha Mitchell played one half of a house sitting couple in the psychological drama Cleopatra's Second Husband.
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In 1999, Radha Mitchell starred as the former girlfriend of a lesbian make-up artist in the short drama Sleeping Beauties and as the pampered, bratty girlfriend of a champion rugby player in the drama Kick.
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Radha Mitchell was cast as Carolyn Fry, a docking pilot, in the science fiction horror film Pitch Black, opposite Vin Diesel.
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In 2001, Radha Mitchell played a woman giving monologues to camera in the drama Ten Tiny Love Stories, a diner waitress in the comedy Nobody's Baby and the owner of a remote roadside diner in the thriller When Strangers Appear.
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Radha Mitchell starred as the first woman to sail around the world solo in the horror film Visitors.
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In Mozart and the Whale, a romantic dramedy with Josh Hartnett, Radha Mitchell played a woman with Asperger syndrome.
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In Silent Hill, the adaptation of Konami's 1999 video game of the same name, Radha Mitchell portrayed Rose Da Silva, the desperate mother who seeks a cure for her daughter Sharon's nightmarish sleepwalking by taking her to the town of Silent Hill.
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In 2007, Radha Mitchell starred in Robert Benton's romantic dramedy Feast of Love, opposite Greg Kinnear and Morgan Freeman, as a successful realtor carrying on an affair with a married man, and in the horror film Rogue, with Michael Vartan, as a wildlife researcher fighting a giant, man-eating crocodile.
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The Sydney Morning Herald asserted: "Featuring standout performances from Radha Mitchell and Edgerton, this is an example of what Australian films can and should be, thought provoking, entertaining and stunning to behold".
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In Looking for Grace, a drama screened in the main competition section of the 72nd Venice International Film Festival, Radha Mitchell starred as a mother hiring a private detective in an attempt to find her missing daughter.
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In 2016, Radha Mitchell returned to the Fallen trilogy in London Has Fallen, which made US$205.9 million, and took on the roles of the matriarch of a family who brings home a supernatural force from the Grand Canyon in the horror film The Darkness, an obstetrician living in the remote Shetland Islands in the thriller Sacrifice, as well as that of one half of a couple in the short film Whoever Was Using This Bed.