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- Height5′ 4″ (1.63 m)
- Mia is an Australian actress, born and raised in the country's capital, Canberra. She is the daughter of photographers Marzena Wasikowska and John Reid. Her mother is Polish and her father is an Australian of British ancestry. She has an older sister, Jess, and a younger brother, Kai. At age eight, her family moved to Poland for a year.
At age nine, Mia took ballet classes with dreams of becoming a professional ballerina. However, an injury prevented this from happening and she quit at age fourteen. Mia turned to acting, having been excited by European and Australian cinema. She was attending Canberra High School, but left to pursue her career as an actor.
She had just turned 15 when she landed the role of Lilya in Suburban Mayhem (2006). Her breakthrough role came when she was cast as Alice in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland (2010).
- IMDb mini biography by: Kad
- ParentsMarzena WasikowskaJohn Reid
- RelativesKai Wasikowska(Sibling)Jess Wasikowska(Sibling)
- Mia stated on Late Night with Seth Meyers (2014) that her real birthday is not October 14, 1989, as shown all over the Internet. It is her "fake" birthday and when people contact her on this date, she knows that they do not know her.
- Tied with Alice in Wonderland (2010) co-star Johnny Depp as the second highest-grossing actor of 2010, behind Leonardo DiCaprio.
- Replaced Emma Stone in Crimson Peak (2015),.
- Last name pronounced "vash-i-kovska".
- According to Nicole Kidman, Wasikowska was always reading between takes on the set of Stoker (2013), including the works of Anton Chekhov, David Mamet and Tennessee Williams.
- I just wanted to try a different type of performance - ballet is more an image of perfection, and film can show a grittier side. Sometimes it's the more realistic topic of real life that really intrigues me.
- When I decided to pursue acting at 15, I heard that you had to have an agent to do film and television, so I did a Google search for acting agencies in Sydney. I hounded one to take me on and started auditioning. I did some films in Australia, and then I started working in America on In Treatment (2008) when I was 17.
- [on Jane Eyre (2011)] The challenge is that the book, start to finish, is Jane Eyre's internal monologue - everything we know is because of what we're hearing directly from her. So my concern was 'How do we keep that intensity?' I was excited about seeing how we could portray all that's going on inside, all that she's observing and feeling, thinking.
- What I like about film is it explores imperfections. That was something that really attracted me.
- I really love doing things that are different and challenge me in different ways. And I think to remain interested and excited by acting it's really great to have such diverse opportunities, and I feel really lucky that I've been able to do that so far.
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