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Heather Mitchell is an Australian actress who has appeared in stage, television and film productions since 1981. She is best known for her role as Ashka in Spellbinder and her theatre work with the Sydney Theatre Company.
Heather Mitchell is an award-winning actress who has appeared in films, TV shows and theatre. She is known for roles in Rogue, Love Me, The Great Gatsby and Muriel's Wedding.
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What Mitchell did with those frightening situations was to "file them away". A part of her would "stand outside of it", she says, and observe. Later, she would draw on it in her acting. Now, after four decades starring on Australians stages and screens, Mitchell brings her whole life to her performances, a life that has been lived with love and pas...
Mitchell is a person friends describe as universally loved; a rememberer of birthdays, a bringer of cakes, "Heather will come to rehearsals having learned all her lines," Williams says, "and yet she will have baked three vegan cakes for the entire cast overnight." Friend and filmmaker Jocelyn Moorhouse used to call her "Heather Angel". "She is just...
Mitchell had been left "adrift" by her mother's death. But after enrolling at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) performing arts school, she soon found her place in the world – and her passion. "I loved being there and I loved doing it," she says. "I loved every class. I didn't care if they were repetitive. I was in heaven." She and Hugo...
In 1989, Mitchell had to fly to Broken Hill on a last-minute job. The day before leaving she had been to a clairvoyant who told her she would meet "my guardian angel and it would make itself known to me". She was picked up at the airport by cinematographer Martin McGrath. Three nights later, walking home from the pub, they had taken shelter from th...
For three years, Mitchell had a lump on her breast. "My left hand travelled to it at least 10 times a day," she writes in her memoir. But she was told, after mammograms, that it was benign. Still, she was worried that it was too high up for the mammogram to see and asked for an ultrasound. "And that was when I found out I had grade 3 breast cancer....
The Sydney Theatre company was about to announce the 2022 season last January, which included RBG: Of Many, One, when Mitchell received another cancer diagnosis. "The return that everyone dreads," Martin says. It had been 17 years since the last diagnosis. This time it had been caught early and hadn't spread. "It felt completely different," Mitchel...
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Apr 30, 2023 · Watch a portrait of actor Heather Mitchell, who is hitting her stride and landing big roles in her mid-60s. She talks about her career, the #MeToo movement and women in the industry.
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- Australian Story
Actor Heather Mitchell's life has been as dramatic off screen as it has on. And she’s channelling those experiences into some of the greatest performances of...
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Nov 4, 2022 · Heather Mitchell as RBG is one of the all-time great performances. If Heather Mitchell ever doubted the ultimate quality of her acting, she need worry no more. Here’s a performance to live among ...
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Heather Mitchell is an Australian actress who has appeared in Rogue, Love Me and The Great Gatsby. She has been married to Martin McGrath since 1992 and has two children.
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Heather Mitchell is known for Scandal (2012), Godfather of Harlem (2019) and Still Star-Crossed (2017). imdb.com
