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Heather Lee Mitchell is an Australian actress, appearing in Australian productions of stage, television, and film. She is best known for her leading role in the 1990s television show Spellbinder. More recently, she appears in Love Me; as Margaux in the Paramount Plus series Fake, and has a role in the upcoming miniseries The Narrow Road to the Deep North.
Mitchell is a graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Art, and has performed on stage since 1975 until the present, including stage collaborations with dance company Force Majeure. In 2022, Mitchell she played justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the theatre play RBG: Of Many, One for Sydney Theatre Company.
Early life
Heather Lee Mitchell attended Camden High School in Camden, New South Wales, between 1971 and 1976 and was school captain in her final year. She took the leading role of Judith Bliss in the 1976 school production of Noël Coward's Hay Fever.
Career
= Television
=Mitchell is well known internationally for her performance as Ashka in the Australian/Polish co-productions of Spellbinder (1995), and Spellbinder: Land of the Dragon Lord (1997). The series was a popular children's fantasy program first broadcast in 1995.
Other television series include: the miniseries Bodyline (1984), Land of Hope (1986), Embassy (1992) and A Country Practice. In 1998, she starred in the miniseries drama The Day of the Roses, in which she played a victim of the 1977 Granville rail disaster. She has also appeared in episodes of Five Mile Creek (1984), Rake (2010), Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2013), and Ms Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries (2019).
In 2021, she played Birdie in The Unusual Suspects.
In 2024 Mitchell was named as part of the cast for the miniseries The Narrow Road to the Deep North, and she appears as Margaux in the Paramount Plus series Fake.
= Stage
=Mitchell is a foundation director and board member of the Sydney Theatre Company (STC). She first appeared at the STC in 1981 performing scenes of Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1 with Andrew Tighe for a workshop.
She has since appeared in dozens of productions for several Australian theatre companies and has contributed to Terence Crawford's 2005 book Trade Secrets: Australian Actors and Their Craft.
Never Did Me Any Harm (Sydney Festival], January 2012), exploring parenting, was a joint production between STC and dance company Force Majeure. It starred Mitchell, Marta Dusseldorp, and Vincent Crowley, with a solo dance performed by dancer Sarah-Jayne Howard.
Mitchell co-wrote the script of Force Majeure's You Animal, You with artistic director Danielle Micich, which explored the sense of smell. She also starred in the performance, which premiered at the Sydney Festival in January 2018.
In 2022, Mitchell was announced to play the late justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the theatre play RBG: Of Many, One. In 2024, Mitchell would again play Ginsburg for the 2024 Black Swan State Theatre Company season. Critics called Mitchell's performance as Ginsburg as a 'tour de force'. Mitchell would again reprise Ginsburg for the 2025 Sydney Theatre Company season.
Filmography
= Film
== Television
== Self appearances / interviews
=Stage
Mitchell's stage performances include:
Awards and nominations
Publications
Heather Mitchell (2023) Everything and Nothing ISBN 9781761067303
Personal life
Mitchell met cinematographer Martin McGrath in 1989, they were engaged in the following year and married in February 1992. The couple have two adult children and reside in Sydney.
Mitchell was made a Member of the Order of Australia in the 2020 Australia Day Honours for "significant service to the performing arts, and to the community."
References
External links
Official website
Heather Mitchell at IMDb
"Heather Mitchell".
"Heather Mitchell" by Melanie Tait, One Plus One, 3 October 2019, ABC News
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