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
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.
Director Park always talked to me about her in a very innocent way, that the story was of her coming of age and her sexual awakening and her going from girl to woman and that she had the same desires and hopes as other young people in terms of being very infatuated, which comes in the form of her uncle, which is very unconventional.
You are relying on a waiting on other people in acting and films, so to be able to have something that I have full creative control over is really very therapeutic.
It's hard to tell what people realize. Everybody's different and has a different understanding of the difference in times.
I like my anonymity - that when I meet people they don't know me.
Ultimately, it's a really brave thing to do what makes you happy as opposed to what the norm, or the social norm is, and that's a very important thing for people to remember, especially young women.
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.