Radha Rani Amber Indigo Anunda Mitchell (born 12 November 1973) is an Australian actress. Her film roles include Finding Neverland

Finding Neverland

Finding Neverland is a 2004 semi-biographical film about playwright J. M. Barrie and his relationship with a family who inspired him to create Peter Pan, directed by Marc Forster. The screenplay by David Magee is based on the play The Man Who Was Peter Pan by Allan Knee...

, Phone Booth, Man on Fire

Man on Fire

Man on Fire is a 1981 thriller novel by the English novelist Philip Nicholson, writing as A. J. Quinnell. The plot features his popular character Creasy, an American-born former member of the French Foreign Legion, in his first appearance.-Plot:...

, Silent Hill

Silent Hill

is a survival horror video game series consisting of seven installments published by Konami and its subsidiary Konami Digital Entertainment. The first four games in the series, Silent Hill, Silent Hill 2, 3 and 4, have been developed by an internal factor, Team Silent...

, and the The Crazies

The Crazies

The Crazies is a 1973 American science fiction horror-action film about the effects of the accidental release of a military biological weapon upon the inhabitants of a small American town. The film was written and directed by George A. Romero, and starred Lane Carroll, Will MacMillan, Harold Wayne...

Early life

Mitchell was born in Melbourne. Her mother is a model turned designer, and her father is a filmmaker. She had a spiritually inclined upbringing, drawing from Hindu

Hindu

Hindu refers to an identity associated with the philosophical, religious and cultural systems that are indigenous to the Indian subcontinent. As used in the Constitution of India, the word "Hindu" is also attributed to all persons professing any Indian religion...

 culture by her parents. Her first name, Radha

Radha

Radha , also called Radhika, Radharani and Radhikarani, is the childhood friend and lover of Krishna in the Bhagavata Purana, and the Gita Govinda of the Vaisnava traditions of Hinduism...

, is of Hindu origin and is the name of the soulmate to Lord Krishna

Krishna

Krishna is a central figure of Hinduism and is traditionally attributed the authorship of the Bhagavad Gita. He is the supreme Being and considered in some monotheistic traditions as an Avatar of Vishnu...

. The other parts of her name coming from an Indian

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

 origin are Rani ("queen") and Anunda ("joy"). She attended the private St Michael's Grammar School

St Michael's Grammar School

St Michael's Grammar School is a co-educational independent day school located in St Kilda, Victoria, Australia.The school was founded in 1895 by the Community of the Sisters of the Church and is associated with the Anglican Church of Australia. St Michael's is located on a single campus, its...

.

Career

Mitchell began her career starring on ABC TV

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as "the ABC" , is Australia's national public broadcaster...

's Sugar and Spice

Sugar and Spice (Australian TV series)

Sugar and Spice was an Australian children's television series that was broadcast on ABC TV between 1988 and 1989.Starring Radha Mitchell as Pixie Robinson and Michelle Kearley as Molly Wilson, the series was set in the 1920s and revolved around two eleven year old girls from the Australian bush,...

in 1988. Progressing to Neighbours

Neighbours

Neighbours is an Australian television soap opera first broadcast on the Seven Network on 18 March 1985. It was created by TV executive Reg Watson, who proposed the idea of making a show that focused on realistic stories and portrayed adults and teenagers who talk openly and solve their problems...

in 1994, Mitchell played two separate characters over her three-year stint on the show.

In 1997, she starred in two films, High Art

High Art

High Art is an independent film directed by Lisa Cholodenko and starring Ally Sheedy and Radha Mitchell.- Synopsis :Sydney , age 24, is a woman who has her whole life mapped out in front of her...

and Everything Put Together, both Independent Spirit Award winners. Other films—including Pitch Black opposite Vin Diesel

Vin Diesel

Vin Diesel is an American actor, writer, director and producer. He became known in the early 2000s, appearing in several successful Hollywood films, including The Fast and the Furious and xXx...

, Phone Booth

Phone Booth (film)

Phone Booth is a 2002 American suspense-thriller film about a man who is held hostage in a telephone booth by a sniper. It stars Colin Farrell, Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker, Katie Holmes, and Radha Mitchell. The film was directed by Joel Schumacher, with music composed by Harry Gregson-Williams...

opposite Colin Farrell

Colin Farrell

Colin James Farrell is an Irish actor, who has appeared in such film as Tigerland, Miami Vice, Minority Report, Phone Booth, The Recruit, Alexander and S.W.A.T....

, and Man on Fire

Man on Fire (2004 film)

Man on Fire is a 2004 American thriller film, based on the 1980 novel of the same name by A. J. Quinnell. Another film based on the same novel was also filmed in 1987....

opposite Denzel Washington

Denzel Washington

Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. is an American actor, screenwriter, director, and film producer. He first rose to prominence when he joined the cast of the medical drama, St. Elsewhere, playing Dr...

—soon followed.

Mitchell gained recognition for her performance in the Academy Award–winning Finding Neverland

Finding Neverland

Finding Neverland is a 2004 semi-biographical film about playwright J. M. Barrie and his relationship with a family who inspired him to create Peter Pan, directed by Marc Forster. The screenplay by David Magee is based on the play The Man Who Was Peter Pan by Allan Knee...

, which co-starred Johnny Depp

Johnny Depp

John Christopher "Johnny" Depp II is an American actor, producer and musician. He has won the Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild award for Best Actor. Depp rose to prominence on the 1980s television series 21 Jump Street, becoming a teen idol...

 and Kate Winslet

Kate Winslet

Kate Elizabeth Winslet is an English actress and occasional singer. She has received multiple awards and nominations. She was the youngest person to accrue six Academy Award nominations, and won the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Reader...

. This performance earned the cast a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture.

Mitchell then took the title role in Woody Allen

Woody Allen

Woody Allen is an American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, jazz musician, author, and playwright. Allen's films draw heavily on literature, sexuality, philosophy, psychology, Jewish identity, and the history of cinema...

's Melinda and Melinda

Melinda and Melinda

Melinda and Melinda is a 2004 film written and directed by Woody Allen. It was premiered at the San Sebastian International Film Festival. The film is set in Manhattan and stars Radha Mitchell as the protagonist Melinda, in two storylines; one comic, one tragic...

, followed by a part with Josh Hartnett

Josh Hartnett

Joshua Daniel "Josh" Hartnett is an American actor and aspiring producer. He first came to audiences' attention in 1997 as "Michael Fitzgerald" in the television series Cracker. He made his feature film debut in 1998, co-starring with Jamie Lee Curtis in Halloween H20: 20 Years Later for Miramax...

 in Mozart and the Whale

Mozart and the Whale

Mozart and the Whale is a 2005 romantic comedy-drama film starring Josh Hartnett and Radha Mitchell, and directed by Petter Næss.-Plot:...

and then starred in the movie adaptation of the videogame Silent Hill

Silent Hill (film)

Silent Hill is a 2006 horror film directed by Christophe Gans and written by Roger Avary. The story is an adaptation of the Silent Hill series of survival horror video games created by Konami. The film, particularly its emotional, religious and aesthetic content as well as its creature design,...

. In 2008, Mitchell starred in Rogue

Rogue (film)

War is a 2007 American action thriller film, directed by Phillip G. Atwell who makes his film debut, with fight choreography by Corey Yuen. The film was released in North America on August 24, 2007 and stars action film actors Jet Li and Jason Statham, making their second collaboration after the...

with Michael Vartan

Michael Vartan

Michael S. Vartan is a French-American film and television actor. He is probably best known for the role of Michael Vaughn on the American television action drama Alias...

, as well as Henry Poole Is Here

Henry Poole is Here

Henry Poole Is Here is a 2008 American drama film directed by Mark Pellington. The screenplay by Albert Torres focuses on a dying man whose religious neighbor insists the water stain on the side wall of his house is an image of Jesus Christ....

opposite Luke Wilson

Luke Wilson

Luke Cunningham Wilson is an American film actor known for his roles in Old School, Bottle Rocket, The Royal Tenenbaums, Legally Blonde, Idiocracy and Death at a Funeral.-Early life:...

 and The Children of Huang Shi

The Children of Huang Shi

The Children of Huang Shi is a Chinese 2008 film...

opposite Jonathan Rhys-Meyers

Jonathan Rhys-Meyers

Jonathan Rhys Meyers is an Irish actor and model.He is best known for his roles in the films Velvet Goldmine, Mission Impossible III, Bend It Like Beckham, Match Point and his television roles as Elvis Presley in the biographical miniseries Elvis, which earned him a Golden Globe for Best Actor,...

.

For her role in Claire McCarthy

Claire McCarthy

Claire McCarthy is an Australian filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and visual artist. She is an internationally successful film director who divides her time between Sydney and Los Angeles.-Early life:...

's The Waiting City

The Waiting City

-External links:*...

, Mitchell won Best Actress in October 2010 at the Antipodes Film Festival, in St. Tropez, France.

Filmography

Film
Year	Film	Role	Other notes
1996	Love and Other Catastrophes Love and Other Catastrophes Love and Other Catastrophes is a quirky 1996 Australian romantic comedy film featuring Frances O'Connor, Radha Mitchell, Alice Garner, Matthew Dyktynski, Matt Day and Kym Gyngell...	Danni
1998	High Art High Art High Art is an independent film directed by Lisa Cholodenko and starring Ally Sheedy and Radha Mitchell.- Synopsis :Sydney , age 24, is a woman who has her whole life mapped out in front of her...	Syd
	Cleopatra's Second Husband	Sophie
1999	Sleeping Beauties Sleeping Beauties Sleeping Beauties is a 1999 short comedy film directed by Jamie Babbit. It premiered at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival. It stars Sarah Lassez as a morgue beautician trying to get over her ex-girlfriend, played by Radha Mitchell. Babbit made the film with help from David Fincher and Michael Douglas...	Cindy	Short film
	Kick	Tamara Spencer
2000	Everything Put Together Everything Put Together Everything Put Together is a 2000 film directed by Marc Forster starring Radha Mitchell and Megan Mullally....	Angie
	Pitch Black	Carolyn Fry
	Kissed by an Angel	JoJo
2001	Ten Tiny Love Stories	Herself
	Nobody's Baby Nobody's Baby Nobody's Baby is a 2001 comedy film written and directed by David Seltzer and starring Gary Oldman and Skeet Ulrich.-Cast:* Skeet Ulrich as Billy Raedeen* Gary Oldman as Buford Bill* Radha Mitchell as Shauna Louise* Mary Steenburgen as Estelle...	Shauna Louise
	When Strangers Appear When Strangers Appear - Plot :"When Strangers Appear" is a psychological thriller including Radha Mitchell , Barry Watson and Josh Lucas . When Beth opens her remote roadside diner, she expects another slow day. But almost immediately, Jack , a handsome drifter burst in, bleeding and on the run...	Beth
2002	Dead Heat Dead Heat (2002 film) Dead Heat is a 2002 action comedy drama film starring Kiefer Sutherland and Anthony LaPaglia and directed by Mark Malone.-Synopsis:A cop forced into retirement by ill health is persuaded by his brother to buy a race horse...	Charlotte LaMarr
	Phone Booth Phone Booth (film) Phone Booth is a 2002 American suspense-thriller film about a man who is held hostage in a telephone booth by a sniper. It stars Colin Farrell, Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker, Katie Holmes, and Radha Mitchell. The film was directed by Joel Schumacher, with music composed by Harry Gregson-Williams...	Kelly Shepard
	Four Reasons	Girl
2003	Visitors	Georgia Perry
2004	Man on Fire Man on Fire (2004 film) Man on Fire is a 2004 American thriller film, based on the 1980 novel of the same name by A. J. Quinnell. Another film based on the same novel was also filmed in 1987....	Lisa Martin Ramos
	Finding Neverland Finding Neverland Finding Neverland is a 2004 semi-biographical film about playwright J. M. Barrie and his relationship with a family who inspired him to create Peter Pan, directed by Marc Forster. The screenplay by David Magee is based on the play The Man Who Was Peter Pan by Allan Knee...	Mary Ansell Barrie
2005	Melinda and Melinda Melinda and Melinda Melinda and Melinda is a 2004 film written and directed by Woody Allen. It was premiered at the San Sebastian International Film Festival. The film is set in Manhattan and stars Radha Mitchell as the protagonist Melinda, in two storylines; one comic, one tragic...	Melinda
	Mozart and the Whale Mozart and the Whale Mozart and the Whale is a 2005 romantic comedy-drama film starring Josh Hartnett and Radha Mitchell, and directed by Petter Næss.-Plot:...	Isabelle Sorenson
2006	Silent Hill Silent Hill (film) Silent Hill is a 2006 horror film directed by Christophe Gans and written by Roger Avary. The story is an adaptation of the Silent Hill series of survival horror video games created by Konami. The film, particularly its emotional, religious and aesthetic content as well as its creature design,...	Rose Da Silva
	The Half Life of Timofey Berezin (Pu-239 Pu-239 (film) PU-239 is a 2007 film directed by Hollywood producer Scott Z. Burns based on the book PU-239 and Other Russian Fantasies written by Ken Kalfus.... )	Marina
2007	Feast of Love Feast of Love Feast of Love is a 2007 American drama film directed by Robert Benton, starring Morgan Freeman, Greg Kinnear, Radha Mitchell, Billy Burke and Selma Blair...	Diana Croce
	Rogue Rogue (film) War is a 2007 American action thriller film, directed by Phillip G. Atwell who makes his film debut, with fight choreography by Corey Yuen. The film was released in North America on August 24, 2007 and stars action film actors Jet Li and Jason Statham, making their second collaboration after the...	Kate Ryan
2008	Henry Poole Is Here Henry Poole is Here Henry Poole Is Here is a 2008 American drama film directed by Mark Pellington. The screenplay by Albert Torres focuses on a dying man whose religious neighbor insists the water stain on the side wall of his house is an image of Jesus Christ....	Dawn Stupek
	The Children of Huang Shi The Children of Huang Shi The Children of Huang Shi is a Chinese 2008 film...	Lee Pearson
	"What We Take from Each Other"	Thief of Hearts	short film
2009	Thick as Thieves	Alexandra Korolenko
	Surrogates	Agent Jennifer Peters
	The Waiting City The Waiting City -External links:*...	Fiona Simmons
2010	The Crazies The Crazies (2010 film) The Crazies is a 2010 American horror film directed by Breck Eisner. Written by Scott Kosar and Ray Wright, the film is a remake of the 1973 film of the same name by George A. Romero, who is also the executive producer and co-writer of the remake....	Judy Dutton
2011	Silent Hill: Revelation 3D Silent Hill: Revelation 3D Silent Hill: Revelation 3D is an upcoming American 3D horror film due to release in 2012. Written and directed by Michael J. Bassett, Revelation 3D is based on the survival horror video game Silent Hill 3 and a sequel to the horror film Silent Hill, which is an adaptation of the survival horror...	Rose Da Silva
2012	Big Sur Big Sur (film) Big Sur is an upcoming film, based on the autobiographical novel Big Sur by Beat Generation poet and novelist Jack Kerouac. The director is independent filmmaker Michael Polish...	Carolyn Cassady Carolyn Cassady Carolyn Elizabeth Robinson Cassady is an American writer associated with the Beat Generation through her marriage to Neal Cassady and her friendships with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and other prominent Beat figures...
Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1988–1989	Sugar and Spice Sugar and Spice (Australian TV series) Sugar and Spice was an Australian children's television series that was broadcast on ABC TV between 1988 and 1989.Starring Radha Mitchell as Pixie Robinson and Michelle Kearley as Molly Wilson, the series was set in the 1920s and revolved around two eleven year old girls from the Australian bush,...	Pixie Robinson
1992–1993	All Together Now All Together Now (TV series) All Together Now was an Australian sitcom that was broadcast on Nine Network between 1991 and 1993. The premise involved an ageing rocker trying to maintain his music career while living with his son and daughter...	Jodie	6 episodes
1993	Phoenix Phoenix (TV series) Phoenix is an Australian police drama television series. Phoenix screened as two thirteen-part series on Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1992 and 1993....	Joanna	Episode: Deal or Pay
	Law of the Land Law of the Land Law of the Land was an Australian television drama series that screened on the Nine Network. The series was set in the fictional country town of Merringanee and centered on the unique way that locals dealt with and enforced the law....	Alicia Miles
1994, 1996	Blue Heelers Blue Heelers Blue Heelers is an Australian police drama series which depicted the lives of police officers stationed at the fictional Mount Thomas police station in a small town in Victoria.- Overview :...	Sally-Anne Nerida Davidson	Episode: A Woman's Place Episode: Once Only Withdrawal (1) Episode: Once Only Withdrawal (2)
1994–1997	Neighbours Neighbours Neighbours is an Australian television soap opera first broadcast on the Seven Network on 18 March 1985. It was created by TV executive Reg Watson, who proposed the idea of making a show that focused on realistic stories and portrayed adults and teenagers who talk openly and solve their problems...	Cassandra Rushmore Catherine O'Brien	9 episodes
1995	Halifax f.p: My Lovely Girl	Sarah	Nine Network Nine Network The Nine Network , is an Australian television network with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney. For 50 years since television's inception in Australia, between 1956 and 2006, it was the most watched television network in Australia...  TV-Movie Television movie A television film is a feature film that is a television program produced for and originally distributed by a television network, in contrast to...
1998	The Chosen	Sarah Gordon
2001	Uprising Uprising (film) Uprising is a 2001 war/drama television movie about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The film was directed by Jon Avnet and written by Avnet and Paul Brickman...	Mira Fuchrer	NBC NBC The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...  TV-Movie Television movie A television film is a feature film that is a television program produced for and originally distributed by a television network, in contrast to...

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