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Mia Wasikowska gained worldwide prominence in 2010 after starring as Alice in Tim Burton's $1 billion-grossing Alice in Wonderland.

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Mia Wasikowska Family

Mia 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, Mia 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. Mia Wasikowskaand 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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Mia Wasikowskabegan training as a ballerina at the age of nine, with hopes of going professional. She began dancing en pointe at thirteen, and was training 35 hours a week in addition to going to school full-time, her daily routine consisting of leaving school in the early afternoon and dancing until nine o'clock at night. However, her passion for ballet waned due to the increasing pressure to achieve physical perfection and her growing dissatisfaction with the industry in general, and she quit at fourteen. "Dance is about the minute things that most people don’t notice but that dancers are trained to see and spend hours obsessing over in front of the mirror. Dancers are kept in a perpetual state of pre-puberty and that type of pressure breeds insecurities." However, she credits ballet with improving her ability to handle her nerves in auditions: "I'd be a very different person if I didn't have ballet as my background. Dance really toughens you up."

At the same time, Mia Wasikowska had been exposed to European and Australian cinema at a young age, particularly Krzysztof Kieślowski's Three Colors trilogy and Gillian Armstrong's My Brilliant Career. Although she was shy and averse to performing during her school years, she became inspired to break into acting after watching Holly Hunter in The Piano and Gena Rowlands in A Woman Under the Influence, in addition to the opportunity of exploring imperfections in film. Despite having no prior acting experience, Mia Wasikowska looked up twelve Australian talent agencies on Google and contacted them all, receiving only one response; she successfully arranged a meeting following persistent callbacks.

Mia Wasikowska at the Hollywood Awards Gala

Mia Wasikowska receives the "Hollywood Breakthrough Actor Award" at the 2010 Hollywood Awards Gala:

Mia Wasikowska Films

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In 2011, Mia 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. She will also appear in John Hillcoat's The Wettest County and Park Chan-wook's Stoker, set for release in 2012.

Mia Wasikowska Filmography:

• 2006 Suburban Mayhem
• 2007 September
• 2007 Rogue
• 2008 Defiance
• 2009 Amelia
• 2009 That Evening Sun
• 2010 Alice in Wonderland
• 2010 The Kids Are All Right
• 2011 Jane Eyre
• 2011 Restless
• 2011 Albert Nobbs
• 2012 The Wettest County
• 2012 Stoker

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Mia Wasikowska 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.

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