Radha Mitchell

There are actresses who take forever to rise to fame. That did not happen to Radha Mitchell, who, following quite reasonable patterns, has progressively become known to the general public, but without reaching the status of big star for any of her films. However, she is a remarkable actress, who knows how to internalize her characters to make them vulnerable to the viewer, credible in her stories.

The mother of the future actress, a model by profession, was an enthusiast of Indian culture and Hindu gods when her daughter was born, so she named her Radha, wife of the god Krishna, followed by Rani, a term that means queen. in several languages. But the thing did not end there… Radha Rani Amber Indigo Anunda Mitchell –her full name– was born in Melbourne on November 12, 1973. Over time it is seen that the influence of oriental culture has remained in the family, since Radha practices yoga and is a vegetarian. Already from a young age, at school and in high school, she acted in several plays and very soon she wanted to be an actress. At just 15 years old, she got a small role in the series Sugar and Spice . Little by little she appeared in other productions on the small screen, among which stands outMy old rocker (1992) and especially Neighbors , a successful Australian television series where he acted between 1994 and 1997. In the cinema he made his successful debut in the light-hearted comedy Love and other catastrophes (1997), together with the actress Frances O’ Connor .

And then he decided to move to Los Angeles and try his luck in Hollywood. Radha was young, pretty and talented. She was soon going to stand out. In the United States, she made her debut in 1998 with two films with high sexual voltage and specifically with gay and lesbian content. In High Art , directed by activist Lisa Cholodenko , she was a young woman who was seduced by the friends of her lesbian neighbor, and in the dark drama Cleopatra’s Second Husband she was prey to kinky relationships. In 2000 she was directed by Marc Forster in the drama Cry in the Night , and the same year she found a new focus in her career with the hit sci-fi adventure Pitch Black .. In that entertaining action-horror film, she was paired with the then-unknown Vin Diesel , and both would become familiar to audiences.

Radha followed the thriller path with When Strangers Appear (2001) and would be part of the great cast of the great TV movie Rebellion in Poland (2001), directed by Jon Avnet . And after a very slight appearance in the adrenaline-pumping thriller Last Call (2002), she would definitively come to the fore with the three films that she released in 2004. In The Fire of Vengeance she was the suffering mother of Dakota Fanning , kidnapped in Mexico and wanted to death. exhaustion by a relentless Denzel Washington . In Finding Neverland she was the cold and distant wife who didn’t understand the world of her husband, JM Barrie ., creator of Peter Pan. And in Melinda and Melinda she was chosen by none other than Woody Allen to swell his list of blondes and play the protagonist in two contrasting characters according to the point of view of those who told the story. It is said that the actress received a call from Woody Allen directly on her mobile phone offering her the role. And that she thought it was a joke until one fine day she received the script.

In the next two years he took a breather and worked less. Mozart and the Whale (2005) was an eccentric love story in a comedy key, starring a man and a woman who suffer from Asperger’s Syndrome. And in 2006 she was the heroine of the film adaptation of a horror video game with enormous global success, Silent Hill , the second part of which would be shot in 2012. Then, after the failed and outdated The Game of Love , she signed up for the B-series action with animal terror in the entertaining The Territory of the Beast . In that film she was returning to her native Australia, where she was faced with a huge creature in the shape of a giant crocodile.

In the following years, Radha combined films of little interest – the dramatic comedy The Miracle of Henry Poole (2008) or the thriller The Code (2009) – with other meritorious ones with different themes. She was thus a heroine in The Children of Huang Shi (2008), set in 1937, during the Sino-Japanese War; she signed up for science fiction in The Substitutes (2009), along with Bruce Willis or she fell prey to the purest terror in The Crazies (2010). And after filming the family film Standing Up , in 2013 she premiered Big Sur , an adaptation of the novel by Jack Kerouac .