Mia Wasikowska
Mia Wasikowska
Mia Wasikowska is an Australian actress. 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 and she received a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female for That Evening Sun. She gained worldwide prominence in 2010 after starring as Alice in Tim Burton's...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth14 October 1989
CityCanberra, Australia
CountryAustralia
Acting really suited me because I could connect as an actor to emotion.
Coming from dance, I feel acting is - I'm not going to say easy, because it's not. But the dance world is more hard-core.
Ballet has really helped me in every acting role. You have to be very disciplined, you have to be able to control your nerves and perform under pressure, and all those things you have to use in acting when you're on film or going for an audition.
Everybody who is an actor has been acting since they were three.
All the time that I'm acting with an animated character, I'm looking at a tennis ball or sticky tape or an eyeline or a man in a green suit. There's no real environment, just this electric green that's blaring into your brain.
I've never been happier to be born in this time than when I was wearing a corset.
I was probably a bit of a mimic when I was a kid, and I used to imitate people.
As a teenager I was very anxious. I had a lot of energy and passion that I wanted to channel into creative things, and I always felt like I wasn't achieving enough.
When you look at magazines, you feel so inadequate and so small and you feel really imperfect, when you're constantly seeing these images.
My mom used to have a lot of European cinema playing in the house, so I'd catch bits and pieces of films.
I've been honoured to portray such intelligent and sophisticated roles.
I'd love to go off to college to study photography, art history, humanities.
When I step back and look at all of these really successful people that I've worked with, one thing I do take away from it is how hard they work and how focused they are.
Once you're put out there in the public eye, people feel a certain ownership over you.