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Radha Rani Amber Indigo Anunda Mitchell (born November 12, 1973) is an Australian actress who began performing professionally while still in high school, Mitchell quickly developed a talent for roles requiring both a youthful energy and naivete as well as more intense, adult ambitions. She got her start in the Australian TV series "Sugar and Spice" and followed up with credits in another series, "Neighbours" as well as other TV productions including "Blue Heelers", "Phoenix", "GP" and "The Flying Doctors". Mitchell also played the leading role in an Australian stage production, "Desire." Mitchell began her career starring on ABC TV's Sugar and Spice in 1988. After appearances on All Together Now and Blue Heelers, Mitchell landed a guest role on Neighbours, and later became a regular on that show, playing a different character. Upon leaving the soap in 1997, she starred in the films High Art and Everything Put Together - both Independent Spirit Award winners. The actress enjoyed a major career breakthrough when she made her feature debut in Emma-Kate Croghan's engaging romantic comedy, "Love and Other Catastrophes" (1996), playing Danni, "a sweet young thing" as Mitchell describes her role, who is dazzled by Mia, a university film student. The two break up, but are eventually reconciled amid the often farcical incidents befalling their close circle of friends and lovers. Although Mitchell's follow-up film and US debut, Lisa Cholodenko's "High Art" (1998), was in many ways a different, much more dramatic film, her role as Syd did have some connections with Danni. Mitchell's large, expressive eyes and blonde hair suggested the youth and inexperience of an aspiring magazine editor dazzled by a gifted photographer (Ally Sheedy) on a career and personal downhill. At the same time, though, Mitchell was also called on to convey a mature and intense emotional attraction as well as a sometimes unattractive ambition, both of which she managed to critical acclaim. After a turn as a house guest who won't leave in the indie "Cleopatra's Second Husband" (also 1998). Next up was Pitch Black opposite Vin Diesel, Phone Booth opposite Colin Farrell, Man on Fire opposite Denzel Washington and the Academy Award-winning Finding Neverland, for which Mitchell and co-stars Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet earned a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture. Mitchell moved more into mainstream fare with the science-fiction horror of "Pitch Black" (2000), the thriller "Phone Booth" (2003) and as Dakota Fanning's mother in "Man on Fire" (2004), and she had her best role yet in "Finding Neverland" (2004) as the disconnected, alienated wife of "Peter Pan" creator J.M. Barrie (Johnny Depp). Meanwhile the actress wrote, directed and starred in her own labor of love, the indie "Four Reasons" (2002). She next starred in “Silent Hill” (2006) as a desperate mother trying to find an answer for her daughter’s mysterious recurring dream that pulls her out of bed to sleepwalk. She then took the title role in Woody Allen's acclaimed Melinda and Melinda, co-starred with Josh Hartnett in Mozart and the Whale and headlined videogame adaptation Silent Hill. Most recently, Mitchell starred in Rogue alongside Michael Vartan, and will next be seen in Henry Poole is Here and The Children of Huang Shi. Mitchell was born in Melbourne, Australia and had a "hippie-ish" upbringing by her parents, who divorced during her childhood. Her mother is a model turned designer and her father is a filmmaker. She attended the St Michael's Grammar School. Her first name, "Radha", is of Indian Hindu origin, where the name is described to mean the paramour of Lord Krishna. The other parts of her name coming from an Indian origin are Rani meaning Queen and Anunda meaning joy. Mitchell is a vegetarian and practices Yoga. |
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