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Mia Wasikowska can be found under the following categories:
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,
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,
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Mia Wasikowska
( ;
born 14 October 1989)
is an Australian actress. After starting her career in Australian television and film, she first became known to a wider audience following her critically acclaimed work on the HBO television series
In Treatment
. She gained worldwide prominence in 2010 after starring as
Alice
in
Tim Burton
's $1 billion-grossing
Alice in Wonderland
and appearing in
The Kids Are All Right
, for which she received the
Hollywood Awards
' Breakthrough Actress Award.
In 2011, Wasikowska portrayed the
title character
in
Cary Fukunaga
's adaptation of
Jane Eyre
,
and starred in
Gus Van Sant
's
Restless
and
Rodrigo Garcia
's
Albert Nobbs
. In 2012, she will appear in
John Hillcoat
's
Lawless
and
Park Chan-wook
's
Stoker
.
Early life
Wasikowska was born and raised in
Canberra
,
Australia
,
and 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 1998, when she was eight years old, Wasikowska and her family moved to
Szczecin
, Poland for a year, after her mother received a grant to produce a collection of work based on her experience of having emigrated to Australia in 1974 at the age of eleven.
Wasikowska and her siblings took part in the production as subjects; she explained to
Johanna Schneller
of the
Toronto Globe and Mail
in July 2010, "We never had to smile or perform. We weren't always conscious of being photographed. We'd just do our thing, and she'd take pictures of us."
The family also traveled through France, Germany, and Russia during this period.
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. It uses material from the
Wikipedia article "Mia Wasikowska"
.
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