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Radha Rani Amber Indigo Ananda Mitchell is an Australian actress. She started her career with various appearances on Australian television, including a regular role as Catherine O'Brien in the soap opera ''
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'' (1996–97). Mitchell later transitioned to working in Hollywood, with leading and supporting roles in films such as ''
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'' (1998), '' Pitch Black'' (2000), ''
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'' (2002), '' Man on Fire'' (2004), '' Finding Neverland'' (2004), ''
Melinda and Melinda ''Melinda and Melinda'' is a 2004 American comedy film written and directed by Woody Allen. It premiered at the San Sebastian International Film Festival. The film is set in Manhattan and stars Radha Mitchell as the protagonist Melinda, in two s ...
'' (2004), ''
Mozart and the Whale ''Mozart and the Whale'' (released as ''Crazy in Love'' in some parts of Europe) is a 2005 romantic comedy-drama film directed by Petter Næss and starring Josh Hartnett and Radha Mitchell. The film is loosely based on the lives of Jerry and Mar ...
'' (2005), ''
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'' (2006), '' Rogue'' (2007), '' The Crazies'' (2010), ''
The Frozen Ground ''The Frozen Ground'' is a 2013 American thriller film directed and written by Scott Walker, in his directorial debut, starring Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, Vanessa Hudgens, Katherine LaNasa, Radha Mitchell, and 50 Cent. Based on the crimes of t ...
'' (2013), ''
Olympus Has Fallen ''Olympus Has Fallen'' is a 2013 American action thriller film directed and co-produced by Antoine Fuqua from a screenplay written by Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt, and is the first installment in the ''Has Fallen'' film series. The ...
'' (2013) and its
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''London Has Fallen'' (2016), '' The Darkness'' (2016), and ''
Run Hide Fight ''Run Hide Fight'' is a 2020 American action thriller film written and directed by Kyle Rankin. The film stars Isabel May, Radha Mitchell, Thomas Jane, Eli Brown, Olly Sholotan, Britton Sear, Cyrus Arnold, Catherine Davis, Treat Williams, ...
'' (2020).


Early life

Mitchell's first name ''
Radha Radha ( sa, राधा, ), also called Radhika, is a Hindu goddess and the chief consort of the god Krishna. She is worshiped as the goddess of love, tenderness, compassion, and devotion. She is the avatar of goddess Lakshmi and is also de ...
'' (
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:राधा) stems from the
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faith. The other parts of her name ''Rani'' (रानी – queen) and ''Ananda'' (आनन्द – joy) also come from similar origins. She credits her name as being a result of her mother's experiences in India during the 1970s and her fascination with Indian philosophies. She grew up just around the corner from the Como Centre, on
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, where her mother ran a shop. Mitchell attended
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in St Kilda. Her first credited screen role was that of an eleven-year-old girl from the Australian bush sent to live with her grandmother, on the ABC TV children's television series '' Sugar and Spice'', which was broadcast between 1988 and 1989. Her experience in the series, along with the drama course she took at St Michael's, sparked her interest in acting. She then enrolled at
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, with the idea of becoming a psychologist. "I thought it was going to be group therapy, that we would go in there and talk about life and people and stuff like that. But it was all rats and stats. I didn't last beyond the first year." Instead, she obtained her
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in literature and media studies.


Career


1990s

Mitchell played a recurring character in the sitcom '' All Together Now'' (1992–1993) and guest-starred in ''
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'' (1993), ''
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'' (1993) and ''
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'' (1994–96). After obtaining a ten-episode arc as a parachute instructor in ''
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'' in 1994, Mitchell returned to play the regular role of Catherine O'Brien, a strong-minded and opinionated student, from 1996 to 1997. The series brought the actress to a wider exposure from audiences. Mitchell quickly "established herself as a versatile and accomplished fixture on the moody art-house flick circuit". As noted by ''The Guardian'', she launched "her assault on the indie scene by 'cornering the market on the lesbian ingenue'". Her film debut came in the role of a gay
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film student in the romantic comedy ''Love and Other Catastrophes'' (1996), which grossed US$1.6 million at the Australian box office. It was her next project,
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's
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winning independent drama ''
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'' (1998), alongside
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, that gave Mitchell her first impression on American audiences. She was acclaimed for her performance of a young female intern at a magazine company who becomes involved with a drug-addicted lesbian photographer.
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wrote that "''High Art'' is so perceptive and mature it makes similar films seem flippant. The performances are on just the right note, scene after scene, for what needs to be done ...".
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listed it as #7 of "The 15 Greatest Lesbian Movies of All Time", while
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listed it as #31 of "100 Best Lesbian Movies Of All Time" in 2015. She played one half of a
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couple in the psychological drama '' Cleopatra's Second Husband'' (also 1998). In 1999, Mitchell starred as the former girlfriend of a lesbian make-up artist in the short drama '' Sleeping Beauties'' and as the pampered, bratty girlfriend of a champion rugby player in the drama ''Kick''. While ''Sleeping Beauties'' premiered at the 1998
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and went on to play at over thirty film festivals, ''Kick'' had a brief cinema screening in Europe before it was released on DVD.


2000s

Mitchell was cast as Carolyn Fry, a docking pilot, in the science fiction horror film '' Pitch Black'' (2000), opposite
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. She found the experience of acting in a studio film "physically challenging", but was eager to take on the role, explaining: "Well, it's an interesting script, great character, shot in Australia, get to go home, you know, a whole range of reasons. And because I guess it's not something I would often have the opportunity to do; it's a genre piece and I felt it was an opportunity to learn". Despite mixed reviews from critics, the film was a
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, grossing over US$53 million worldwide and developing its own
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. In 2000, she also starred as an expecting mother in the psychological drama ''
Everything Put Together ''Everything Put Together'' is a 2000 drama film directed by Marc Forster starring Radha Mitchell, Megan Mullally and Louis Ferreira. The story focuses on a Californian couple expecting a child and their group of friends who are confronted with t ...
'', which was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, and as the love interest of a lawyer in the romantic comedy ''Cowboys and Angels''. In 2001, Mitchell played a woman giving monologues to camera in the drama ''
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'', a diner waitress in the comedy '' Nobody's Baby'' and the owner of a remote roadside diner in the thriller ''
When Strangers Appear ''When Strangers Appear'' is a 2001 psychological thriller film directed by Scott Reynolds and starring Radha Mitchell, Barry Watson, and Josh Lucas Joshua Lucas Easy Dent Maurer (born June 20, 1971) is an American actor. He is best known ...
''. Her next film release was the crime drama ''
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'' (2002), in which she played the wife of a police officer.
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's thriller ''
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'' (2003), opposite
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, featured her as the wife of a young arrogant publicist who becomes a victim of a mysterious caller who threatens to harm him. It was a critical and commercial success, grossing US$97.8 million worldwide. She starred as the first woman to sail around the world solo in the horror film '' Visitors'' (also 2003). Her three 2004 film releases —'' Man on Fire'' (2004), with
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, the
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–winning '' Finding Neverland'', with
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and
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, and
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's ''
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''— were well received by critics and successful at the box office. In ''Man on Fire'', she played the mother of a nine-year-old abducted in
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and what ''
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'' described as an "American
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with a Southern accent that seems to come and go". ''Finding Neverland'' featured her as Mary Ansell, the wife of novelist
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, and earned her, as a member of the cast, a
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nomination for Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture. ''Melinda and Melinda'' starred her as the title role of a woman attempting to straighten out her life. ''Man on Fire'' made US$130.2 million, ''Finding Neverland'' $116.8 million, and ''Melinda and Melinda'' US$20 million in limited markets. In ''
Mozart and the Whale ''Mozart and the Whale'' (released as ''Crazy in Love'' in some parts of Europe) is a 2005 romantic comedy-drama film directed by Petter Næss and starring Josh Hartnett and Radha Mitchell. The film is loosely based on the lives of Jerry and Mar ...
'' (2005), a romantic dramedy with
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, Mitchell played a woman suffering from
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. In its review for the film, ''Variety'' noted: "Mitchell socks over her role as a dynamo whose emotional insecurity is buried under a fabulously attractive exterior; by virtue of her character’s assertiveness, she dominates the screen". In ''
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'' (2006), the
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of
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's 1999 video game of the same name, Mitchell portrayed
Rose Da Silva ''Silent Hill'' is a 2006 supernatural horror film directed by Christophe Gans and written by Roger Avary, based on the video game series of the same name published by Konami. The film stars Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean, Laurie Holden, Deborah Kara ...
, the desperate mother who seeks a cure for her daughter Sharon's nightmarish sleepwalking by taking her to the town of Silent Hill.
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noted: "Radha Mitchell normally does smaller movies, but her experience from ''Pitch Black'' serves her well here; she's credible as a mother who will fight off hoards of dead to save her daughter". Despite mixed reviews, the film opened with top numbers at the box office, with over US$20 million in sales. It eventually made US$97 million globally. In 2006, she also appeared as the adoring wife of a
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facility worker in the HBO film ''Pu-239''. In 2007, Mitchell starred in
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's romantic dramedy ''
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'', opposite
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and
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, as a successful realtor carrying on an affair with a married man, and in the horror film '' Rogue'', with
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, as a wildlife researcher fighting a giant, man-eating crocodile. Both ''Feast of Love'' and ''Rogue'' made about US$5 million worldwide. In 2008, she took on the roles of a mother to a mute seven-year old in the dramedy '' Henry Poole Is Here'' opposite
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, and that of a courageous nurse assisting British journalist George Hogg in the historical war drama '' The Children of Huang Shi'' opposite
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. In 2009, she played a woman kidnapped by the
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in the heist action film '' Thick as Thieves'', which reunited her with Morgan Freeman, and also an
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agent in the sci-fi thriller '' Surrogates'', a film adaptation of the comic book of the same name co-starring
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.


2010s

The horror film '' The Crazies'' (2010) featured Mitchell as a pregnant woman and one of the residents of a fictional
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town that becomes afflicted by a military virus that turns those infected into violent killers. The film garnered positive reviews and, with a worldwide gross of US$55 million, it emerged as a moderate commercial success. In 2010, she also starred as a successful, self-starting lawyer and one half of a couple trying to adopt a child in
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's drama ''
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'', which was acclaimed by critics. ''
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'' asserted: "Featuring standout performances from Mitchell and Edgerton, this is an example of what Australian films can and should be, thought provoking, entertaining and stunning to behold". For her role, Mitchell won as Best Actress at the Antipodes Film Festival in
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, France. Mitchell reprised her role of Rose Da Silva in ''Silent Hill: Revelation'' (2012), which was a moderate box office success, grossing over US$56 million worldwide, but was heavily panned by critics and audiences, Her next seven screen projects —the films ''
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'', ''
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'', ''
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'', ''
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'', ''Standing Up'', '' Expecting'' and the
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drama series ''
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''— were released throughout 2013. ''Olympus Has Fallen'', in which she portrayed a nurse and the wife of a
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agent, proved to be her most successful film of the year, grossing US$170.3 million globally, and spawning a
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. In ''
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'' (2014), a comedy written by and starring
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, Mitchell played a neurotic uptown girl and the love interest of an unattractive man rejected by women because of his donkey-faced appearance. In ''
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'' (2015), a drama screened in the main competition section of the
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, Mitchell starred as a mother hiring a private detective in an attempt to find her missing daughter. Her comic portrayal was hailed as "amusingly tetchy" by ''Variety'' and "well-tuned" by ''Time Out Sydney''. In 2016, Mitchell returned to the ''Fallen'' trilogy in ''
London Has Fallen ''London Has Fallen'' is a 2016 American action thriller film directed by Babak Najafi and written by Creighton Rothenberger, Katrin Benedikt, Chad St. John and Christian Gudegast. It is the second installment in the ''Has Fallen'' film series, ...
'', which made US$205.9 million, and took on the roles of the matriarch of a family who brings home a supernatural force from the
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in the horror film '' The Darkness'', an obstetrician living in the remote
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in the thriller ''Sacrifice'', as well as that of one half of a couple in the short film '' Whoever Was Using This Bed''. The Christian drama '' The Shack'' (2017), which featured Mitchell as a devoutly religious wife, opened with US$16.1 million in North America, finishing above expectations. It eventually earned US$96.9 million worldwide.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mitchell, Radha 1973 births 20th-century Australian actresses 21st-century Australian actresses Actresses from Melbourne Australian child actresses Australian film actresses Australian television actresses Living people People educated at St Michael's Grammar School