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
Mia Wasikowska quotes about
I don't consider myself a starlet or a Hollywood person.
I didn't shoot any guns then or when we did the scene with Uncle Charlie [Matthew Goode] and Evie [Nicole Kidman] in the hall. I sort of pressed the button but there were no blanks or anything in there because I think it was always going to cut.
I get restless easily so I always want to keep working, but I am trying to pace it as well.
I would hope everyone would be a feminist.
One of the producers, Wonjo, was an amazing interpreter. I don't think we really knew how it was going to work at the beginning. Yet it was something that a couple of days into it seemed so seamless and it wasn't something that we noticed or thought about. A couple of times I cornered him and forced him to speak English but we didn't speak much English at all. That said, I don't think anything was ever lost in translation. It was all very easy.
In our world, we have so many ways we can escape with technology, like TV, Facebook, computers, text messaging and all that.
It's hard to tell what people realize. Everybody's different and has a different understanding of the difference in times.
When you dance intensely, you are really aware of your physicality, and that's always great to have as a tool, when you're an actress.
To have a creative outlet that you can control is really important because you do a lot of waiting to be cast, then waiting to go into production, and then waiting on set.
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.
I wanted to be a dancer from when I was about nine or something like that and started ballet. I used to really like it and got into it and did it full time for a couple of years. I did a lot of ballet but I traded that in for acting when I was about 15.
It's really rare to get a teenage role that resembles something of what it's like to be a young person, that isn't a cliché or a stereotype.
I really like trying to find the roles that are actually really meaningful to me.
I hate the feeling when I'm overseas, away from Australia, that I'm trapped, blocked by an ocean from getting to the people I love. That gives me anxiety.