Mia Wasikowska

Her last name sounds Polish, but the truth is that Mia Wasikowska was born in Canberra, Australia, on October 14, 1989. But anyway, both her Slavic features and her last name, give her away, and indeed, her mother, Marzena Wasikowska, is a Polish photographer, while her father, John Reid , was a painter and collage artist. With such artistic precedents, and becoming fond of photography herself, it is not surprising that Mia ended up dedicating herself to a profession so related to image.

The second of three siblings, Mia Wasikowska had the opportunity to discover the country of her ancestors, since at the age of eight she spent a full year in Poland. The truth is that her parents, due to her professional dedication, traveled a lot in Europe.

Before cinema, it was dance. Between the ages of nine and fifteen, Mia danced and danced, up to 35 hours a week, what an exhaustion. An iron discipline, which would be useful for her to organize her life and think carefully about what she wanted to dedicate herself to. And she decided that dancing was better than not, and instead, interpreting the lives of others, as a way of exploring the meaning of existence, had much more interest.

As you can imagine, Wasikowska’s first acting jobs were in Australia. A fleeting appearance in the television soap opera All Saints (2004), or the drama Suburban Mayhem (2006) were not very promising beginnings, you had to be patient, ‘follow the white rabbit’, until one day you successfully reach ‘Movie Country’ ‘. Four chained titles in 2007, when she was only 18 years old, give an idea that the girl was stomping, and that she was not disgusted by scary movies as unstimulating as The Territory of the Beast .

The landing in the United States came in 2008 with the HBO television series of psychiatrists In therapy . And his Polish roots would come to his hair to intervene that year in the film about the resistance of the Jews in Belarus, during World War II, facts told in Resistance .

After taking part in the failed Amelia , about the true aviation heroine Amelia Earhart, a highly praised film, That Evening Sun , has yet to be released . Although it is obvious that the title that has put it on the map is the Burtonian Alice in Wonderland , a happy revisiting of the world of Lewis Carroll , and where the leading role of the blonde actress is absolute, with the permission of Johnny Depp , the numerous creatures, the overwhelming imagery and the 3D.

In the near future we will see her again as a fictional heroine, as she will be Jane Eyre in Cary Fukunaga ‘s version . Other titles in post-production, The Kids Are All Right , and Gus Van Sant ‘s film Restless , attest to her vocation as the protagonist . From what you can see, we have Wasikowska for a while.