Mia Wasikowska
Also Known As: 미아 와시코브스카
Biography: Mia Wasikowska (/ˌvʌʃɪˈkɒfskə/ VUSH-i-KOF-skə; born 25 October 1989) is an Australian actress. She made her screen debut on the Australian television drama All Saints in 2004, followed by her feature film debut in Suburban Mayhem (2006). She became known to a wider audience following her critically acclaimed work on the HBO television series In Treatment (2008). She was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female for the film That Evening Sun (2009). Wasikowska gained worldwide recognition in 2010 after starring as Alice in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland and appearing in the comedy-drama film The Kids Are All Right. She starred in Cary Fukunaga's Jane Eyre (2011), Gus Van Sant's Restless (2011), Park Chan-wook's Stoker (2013), Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive (2013), John Curran's Tracks (2013), Richard Ayoade's The Double (2013), David Cronenberg's Maps to the Stars (2014), and Guillermo del Toro's Crimson Peak (2015). In 2016, she reprised her role as Alice in the film Alice Through the Looking Glass and has since appeared in several independent films, including Damsel (2018), Judy and Punch (2019), and Bergman Island (2021). Description above from the Wikipedia article Mia Wasikowska, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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Birthday: October 25, 1989
Age: 35 years old
Gender: Female
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The Emma Bovary Trial
Overview: On January 31, 1857, the French writer Gustave Flaubert (1821-80) took his place in the dock for contempt of public morality and religion. The accused, the real one, is, through him, Emma Bovary, heroine with a thousand faces and a thousand desires, guilty without doubt of an unforgivable desire to live.
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-09-15
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Alice in Wonderland
Overview: Alice, now 19 years old, returns to the whimsical world she first entered as a child and embarks on a journey to discover her true destiny.
Genres: Family Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-03-03
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Amelia
Overview: A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-22
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September
Overview: The friendship of two 15-year-old boys – one black, one white – begins to fall apart under the stress of a changing world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-29
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Rogue
Overview: When a group of tourists stumble into the remote Australian river territory of an enormous crocodile, the deadly creature traps them on a tiny mud island with the tide quickly rising and darkness descending. As the hungry predator closes in, they must fight for survival against all odds.
Genres: Action Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-08
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Defiance
Overview: Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the Soviet partisans to combat the Nazis. The brothers begin the rescue of roughly 1,200 Jews still trapped in the ghettos of Poland.
Genres: Action Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-31
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That Evening Sun
Overview: An aging Tennessee farmer returns to his homestead and must confront a family betrayal, the reappearance of an old enemy, and the loss of his farm.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-11-06
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Suburban Mayhem
Overview: Can you really get away with murder? Welcome to the world of Katrina, a 19-year-old single mum who's planning to do just that. Katrina lives in a world of petty crime, fast cars, manicures and blow-jobs. A master manipulator of men living at home with her father in suburban Golden Grove, Katrina will stop at nothing to get what she wants - even murder.
Genres: Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-26
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Jane Eyre
Overview: After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-03-11
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The Kids Are All Right
Overview: Two women, Nic and Jules, brought a son and daughter into the world through artificial insemination. When one of their children reaches age, both kids go behind their mothers' backs to meet with the donor. Life becomes so much more interesting when the father, two mothers and children start to become attached to each other.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-07-09
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Heath Ledger: A Tribute
Overview: On January 22, 2008, the entertainment world was rocked by news that one of its brightest young stars had unexpectedly died. This film is a commemorative special dedicated to the life and works of this complex and unique talent who died before his time.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-06-01
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Restless
Overview: Two outsiders, both shaped by the circumstances that have brought them together, forge a deep and lasting love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-16
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Flyways
Overview: Flyways follows endangered migratory shorebirds as they travel their ancient migration routes around the planet. Using nanotechnology and global tracking from the International Space Station, the project will uncover the paths of the world’s greatest, feathered endurance athletes and shine a light on the scientists and international lawyers who are collaborating to save them.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-05-06
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Lawless
Overview: In 1931, the Bondurant brothers of Franklin County, Virginia, run a multipurpose backwoods establishment that hides their true business — bootlegging. Middle brother Forrest is the brain of the operation; older Howard is the brawn, and younger Jack, the lookout. Though the local police have taken bribes and left the brothers alone, a violent war erupts when a sadistic lawman from Chicago arrives and tries to shut down the Bondurants operation.
Genres: Crime Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-08-29
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Albert Nobbs
Overview: Albert Nobbs struggles to survive in late 19th century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to be independent. Posing as a man, so she can work as a butler in Dublin's most posh hotel, Albert meets a handsome painter and looks to escape the lie she has been living.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-12-21
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Club Zero
Overview: Miss Novak joins the staff of an international boarding school to teach a conscious eating class and forms a strong bond with five students that eventually takes a dangerous turn.
Genres: Thriller Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-09-27
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Only Lovers Left Alive
Overview: A depressed musician reunites with his lover in the desolate streets of Detroit. Though their romance has endured several centuries, it is tested by the arrival of her capricious and unpredictable younger sister.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-12-12
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The Double
Overview: An awkward office drone becomes increasingly unhinged after a charismatic and confident look-alike takes a job at his workplace and seduces the woman he desires.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-03
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Maps to the Stars
Overview: Driven by an intense need for fame and validation, members of a dysfunctional Hollywood family are chasing celebrity, one another and the relentless ghosts of their pasts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-21
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I Love Sarah Jane
Overview: Ah, young love. The air seems clearer. The sun seems brighter. There's a spring in the step. Too bad about the zombie apocalypse.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-17
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Crimson Peak
Overview: In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds… and remembers.
Genres: Horror Romance Mystery Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-13
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Tracks
Overview: Accompanied only by her faithful dog and four camels, an Australian satisfies her craving for solitude by embarking on a solo trip across the desert from Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-12-19
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Alice Through the Looking Glass
Overview: Alice Kingsleigh returns to Underland and faces a new adventure in saving the Mad Hatter.
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-05-25
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Madame Bovary
Overview: The classic story of Emma Bovary, the beautiful wife of a small-town doctor in 19th century France, who engages in extra marital affairs in an attempt to advance her social status.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-06-04
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Travelling at Night with Jim Jarmusch
Overview: A portrait of the American director Jim J. at work on the set of his latest film, Only Lovers Left Alive.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-22
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The Man with the Iron Heart
Overview: With the Third Reich at its peak in 1942, the Czech resistance in London plans the most ambitious military operation of WWII – Anthropoid. Two young recruits are sent to Prague to assassinate the most ruthless Nazi leader – Reinhard Heydrich, head of the Reich Security Main Office, the Gestapo and the architect of the Final Solution.
Genres: War Action History Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-05-25
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A Way Away
Overview: Following her mother's injury, 11 year-old Rana is determined to protect her younger sister from an untrusty uncle who's stepping in to help the family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sl
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Touch of Evil
Overview: Some of 2011's stand-out film actors appear in "a video gallery of cinematic villainy" for New York Times Magazine.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-12-06
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Oscar Wilde's the Nightingale and the Rose
Overview: A nightingale bird discovers a true lover when she witnesses a young university student talk with great passion about his beloved. The Nightingale goes on a quest to find the red rose the Student needs win his lovers heart, but this comes at a chilling price. Based on the classic fairytale by Oscar Wilde.
Genres: Animation Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-02-09
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Cosette
Overview: Cosette lives a sheltered, ignorant life in an isolated world with her alternative-lifestyle father Jim. When Jim suddenly dies, Cosette is left to fend for herself. Scared and hungry, she embarks on a perilous journey across land and water and discovers that the world she thought existed is not nearly as horrible as her father led her to believe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Eve
Overview: It's Valentines Day and Eve's boyfriend Jack presents her with a microwave oven. Jack has unofficially moved into Eve's housing commission room and together they plan to move forward from their troubled pasts. Eve is thrilled by the gift but knows it won't last long in their environment. An intrusion on their privacy sparks an argument, and Eve sets out to get a lock for the door. When things don't go smoothly, trouble ensues.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-01
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Lens Love Story
Overview: Len, a mildly autistic man, is having trouble with day-to-day life after his mother's death, until she sends him something quite unexpected to help him on his way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-08-09
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Damsel
Overview: Oregon, a small town near the sea, around 1870. Henry, a grieving man who aspires to preach as a way to overcome his unfortunate past, reunites with eccentric pioneer Samuel Alabaster, who has hired him to officiate at his marriage to the precious Penelope. What Henry ignores is that both must embark on a dangerous journey through the inhospitable wilderness to meet her.
Genres: Western Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-06-22
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Summer Breaks
Overview: Two teenagers try to kill time at the edge of a river, smoking, going with the girls at the pool. In the evening, when night falls, things suddenly become more interesting.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-06-13
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Skin
Overview: Robert tries to rekindle a relationship with his teenage daughters Emma and Zoe on their last holiday together before the divorce. He slowly begins to realize that not only has he lost access to all that he loves, but Emma, his youngest, maybe affected in a personal and destructive way.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Piercing
Overview: After kissing his wife and baby goodbye for a seemingly normal business trip, Reed checks himself into a hotel room to accomplish something he’s always dreamed of: the perfect murder. As his sinister plans unfold, he soon realizes he might be in over his head with a mysteriously unhinged call girl named Jackie.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-01-03
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Bergman Island
Overview: An English-German filmmaking couple retreat to Fårö for the summer to each write screenplays for their upcoming films in an act of pilgrimage to the place that inspired Ingmar Bergman. As the summer and their screenplays advance, the lines between reality and fiction start to blur against the backdrop of the Island's wild landscape.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-07-14
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Judy & Punch
Overview: In the anarchic town of Seaside, nowhere near the sea, puppeteers Judy and Punch are trying to resurrect their marionette show. The show is a hit due to Judy's superior puppeteering but Punch's driving ambition and penchant for whisky lead to an inevitable tragedy that Judy must avenge.
Genres: Drama Thriller Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-11-21
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Blackbird
Overview: A terminally ill mother invites her family to their country house for one final gathering, but tensions quickly boil over between her two daughters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-09-06
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The Devil All the Time
Overview: In Knockemstiff, Ohio and its neighboring backwoods, sinister characters converge around young Arvin Russell as he fights the evil forces that threaten him and his family.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-09-11
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The House Is Alive: Constructing 'Crimson Peak'
Overview: A newly edited, feature-length documentary with cast and crew interviews and extensive behind the scenes footage
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-01-14
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I Remember Crimson Peak
Overview: Four segments that breakdown the filmmaking process of Crimson Peak.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-02-09
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The Light and Dark of Crimson Peak
Overview: A behind the scenes look at the colors and themes of Crimson Peak.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-02-09
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Hand Tailored Gothic
Overview: A look at the costume design for Crimson Peak.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-02-09
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Alice in Wonderland: Finding Alice
Overview: A look at Alice from Alice in Wonderland (2010)
Genres: Documentary Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-06-01
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Alice in Wonderland: The Mad Hatter
Overview: A look at The Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland (2010)
Genres: Documentary Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-06-01
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Blueback
Overview: Based on the best-selling novel by Tim Winton, Blueback is a timely tale about the ocean, a beautiful marine creature, and a young girl’s power to change the world.
Genres: Family Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-12-29
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Stoker
Overview: After India Stoker's father dies, her Uncle Charlie, who she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her unstable mother. She comes to suspect this mysterious, charming man has ulterior motives and becomes increasingly infatuated with him.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-02-28
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Fing!
Overview: Librarians Mr. and Mrs. Meek indulge their demanding daughter Myrtle's every wish. When she wants a Fing, they search deep in the jungle. After finding one, Myrtle faces off against a Viscount who wants the rare creature.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
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Changers: A Dance Story
Overview: A theatrical dance piece written and directed by Spike Jonze that explores the evolution of relationships through movement and dance. The piece follows the romance between a man and a woman as they navigate monogamy.
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Original Language: en
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