Mia Wasikowska Wikipedia. Mia Wasikowska VAH shee KOF sk 34Polish vaikfska born October 1. Australian Polish actress. Watch Game of Thrones Season 2 episodes online with help from SideReel. We connect you to show links, recaps, reviews, news and more. VctFuW1saYqUhvOX60uVjJRtfP.jpg' alt='Watch All The Wilderness Online Hitfix' title='Watch All The Wilderness Online Hitfix' />The third season of Parks and Recreation originally aired in the United States on the NBC television network between January 20 and May 19, 2011. Watch For Colored Girls Torent Free more. Directed by Thomas Balms. With Bayar, Hattie, Mari, Ponijao. Killing Bono Full Movie. A look at one year in the life of four babies from around the world, from Mongolia to Namibia to San. She made her screen debut on the Australian television drama. All Saints in 2. 00. Suburban Mayhem 2. 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 2. She gained worldwide prominence in 2. Alice in Tim Burtons Alice in Wonderland and appearing in the comedy drama film The Kids Are All Right, a role for which she received the Hollywood Awards Breakthrough Actress Award. Early lifeeditWasikowska was born and raised in Canberra, Australia. She attended Cook Primary School, Ainslie Primary School and Canberra High School,6 as well as Karabar High School in Queanbeyan, which neighbours Canberra. She is the middle child of three, with an older sister, Jess, and a younger brother, Kai. Her mother, Marzena Wasikowska, is a Polish born photographer, while her father, John Reid, is an Australian photographer and collagist. In 1. 99. 8, when she was eight years old, Wasikowska and her family moved to Szczecin, Poland, for a year, after her mother had received a grant to produce a collection of work based on her own experience of having emigrated to Australia in 1. Wasikowska and her siblings took part in the production as subjects she explained to Johanna Schneller of The Globe and Mail in July 2. We never had to smile or perform. We werent always conscious of being photographed. Wed just do our thing, and shed take pictures of us. At the age of nine Wasikowska began training as a ballerina with Jackie Hallahan at the Canberra Dance Development Centre,1. She began dancing en pointe at thirteen, and was training 3. A spur on her heel hampered her dancing. Her passion for ballet also waned due to the increasing pressure to achieve physical perfection and her growing dissatisfaction with the industry in general, and she quit at fourteen. However, she credits ballet with improving her ability to handle her nerves in auditions. At the same time, she had been exposed to European and Australian cinema at an early age, particularly Krzysztof Kielowskis Three Colours trilogy and Gillian Armstrongs My Brilliant Career. Although she was shy and averse to performing during her school years,1. Holly Hunter in The Piano and Gena Rowlands in A Woman Under the Influence,2. Despite having no prior acting experience, Wasikowska looked up twelve Australian talent agencies on the Internet and contacted them all, receiving only one response she successfully arranged a meeting following persistent callbacks. Early workeditWasikowska landed her first acting role in 2. Australian soap All Saints. She had just turned fifteen when she was cast in her Australian film debut, 2. Suburban Mayhem,1. Young Actors AFI Award. That same year, she also appeared in her first short film, Lens Love Story, in which she had no dialogue. In 2. 00. 7, Wasikowska appeared in the crocodile horror film Rogue, alongside Radha Mitchell and Sam Worthington. She observed quietly on the set fellow actor Stephen Curry noted, We didnt hear a peep out of her for three weeks, which earned her the nickname of Rowdy. She beat out nearly 2. September, being cast on the spot by director Peter Carstairs following her audition. She starred in Spencer Sussers acclaimed short film I Love Sarah Jane, which premiered at the 2. Sundance Film Festival. At the age of seventeen, Wasikowska received her first big break role in the United States when she was cast as Sophie, a suicidal gymnast, in HBOs acclaimed weekly drama In Treatment, after she auditioned for the role by videotape. The part required her to leave school in Canberra and move to Los Angeles for three months, while enrolling in correspondence courses. She earned critical acclaim for her performance as the troubled teenager treated by psychotherapist Paul Weston Gabriel Byrne,2. American accent. 3. Wasikowska revealed in an October 2. Variety that she was something of a mimic as a child and that the large influx of American films and TV shows made it easier for Australians to pick up the accent. The exposure from the show led to Wasikowska picking up her first American film appearances. She played the role of Chaya, the young wife of Asael Bielski Jamie Bell, in Defiance. Director Edward Zwick cast her without having seen her in In Treatment, explaining to the Australian edition of Vogue, Her inner life is so vivid that it comes across even when shes being still. Her next role was that of aviation pioneer Elinor Smith in Mira Nairs 2. Amelia. 3. 5 In June 2. In Treatment, she was a recipient of an Australians in Film Breakthrough Award. Wasikowska played the supporting role of Pamela Choat in the 2. Southern Gothic independent film That Evening Sun, opposite Hal Holbrook. Director Scott Teems, seeking a young actress who bore a resemblance to Sissy Spacek, initially balked at the casting directors first suggestion of Wasikowska for the role, as he was adamant at casting all native Southerners for the sake of authenticity. However, after auditions with other actresses were unsuccessful, Teems relented and summoned Wasikowska for auditioning. She had only two hours to prepare, which she spent watching clips of Coal Miners Daughter online in order to quickly learn a Southern accent, and impressed Teems enough that she gained the distinction of being the only non American actor cast in the film. She was nominated for a 2. Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female,3. MoNique Precious, though the film received a South by Southwest award for Best Ensemble Cast. In July 2. 00. 8, after a lengthy search, Wasikowska was cast as the eponymous heroine in Tim Burtons retelling of Alice in Wonderland, alongside Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter and Anne Hathaway. She sent a videotaped audition to casting directors in London, and her first live reading in Los Angeles occurred on the same day as her Evening Sun audition. After three more auditions in London which saw her flying back and forth from Australia to England in just as many weeks she was awarded the role.