Mia Wasikowska Biography

Mia Wasikowska, (pronounced “vash-i-kovska”) is an Australian actress. She’s best known for her role on the HBO drama ‘In Treatment’. At age 9 she began training to become a professional dancer, but by age 15 she replaced dance with acting. Mia was born in 1989 in Canberra, Australia. She stated October 14 is not her real birthday, though the birth date is appearing all over the internet. She was 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 is the middle child of three children. She has an older sister, Jess, and a younger brother, Kai. She landed her first acting role in 2004, with a two-episode stint on the Australian soap All Saints. She had just turned fifteen when she was cast in her Australian film debut, 2006’s Suburban Mayhem, for which she received a nomination for a Young Actor’s AFI Award. Her breakthrough role came when she was cast as Alice in Tim Burton‘s Alice in Wonderland (2010).