Elizabeth Mitchell
Elizabeth Mitchell is an American actress. She is known for her lead role as Juliet Burke on the ABC drama mystery series Lost. Mitchell also had lead roles on the television series V, Revolution, and Dead of Summer, as well as recurring roles as the Snow Queen on Once Upon a Time and Anna Volovodov on The Expanse.
Mitchell also starred in numerous films, including Gia, Frequency, Nurse Betty, The Santa Clause 2, ', Running Scared, Answers to Nothing, and '.
Early life
Mitchell was born in Los Angeles, California. Her stepfather, Joseph Day Mitchell, and mother, Josephine Marian Mitchell, are lawyers based in Dallas. Mitchell and her mother moved to Dallas, Texas in 1970, where her mother married Joseph Mitchell in 1975. Mitchell graduated from Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, a public magnet school. She is the eldest of three sisters, the others being Kristina Helen "Kristie" Mitchell and Katherine Day "Kate" Mitchell.She attended Stephens College, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in acting, and then studied at the British American Drama Academy.
Career
Mitchell had an early TV role as Dinah Lee on the soap opera Loving from 1994 to 1995.Mitchell had a recurring role as psychiatrist Kim Legaspi, the first lesbian lover of Kerry Weaver during the 2000–01 season of TV series ER. She played in the 2000 movie Frequency alongside Dennis Quaid and Jim Caviezel. She also played Angelina Jolie's hairdresser/lover in the movie Gia and had a one-episode role in House M.D. as a patient.
In 2006 she started on Lost, then in March 2009, Mitchell was cast in the ABC series V, a remake of the science-fiction television miniseries. Although ABC and Warner Bros. officials told the magazine she was only cast as a guest star, the announcement led to speculation and concern that Mitchell's character would be killed off at the end of Lost
V lasted for one more season, which premiered on January 4, 2011. Mitchell had a guest-starring role on ' in 2011 wherein she played June Frye. Mitchell starred in the film, Answers to Nothing in 2011 as Kate. In 2012, she joined the cast of the series Revolution as Rachel Matheson, replacing actress Andrea Roth, with whom Mitchell had worked for one episode on Lost. The series premiered on September 17, 2012, and ended in May 2014. She then recurred as the Snow Queen on the TV fantasy series Once Upon a Time in late 2014.
2008 supporting the Boston Red Sox
In 2016, Mitchell starred as Senator Charlene 'Charlie' Roan in the science-fiction horror film '. Also that year, it was announced Mitchell would join the main cast of the Freeform supernatural horror series Dead of Summer. She portrayed the character of Deb Carpenter. The series ended after one season.
Mitchell's theater work includes six years in Dallas Theater Center and a season at Encore Theater.
Personal life
While filming The Linda McCartney Story in 2000, Mitchell and co-star Gary Bakewell began dating and later became engaged, but the relationship ended in 2002.Mitchell married improvisation actor Chris Soldevilla in 2004 and the two lived together in Bainbridge Island, Washington, with their son, who was born in 2005. In 2013, Mitchell and Soldevilla divorced due to irreconcilable differences. In 2014, Mitchell purchased a ranch in Bainbridge Island, Washington.
She shares the same name as actress Elizabeth Banks' birth name, who changed her name to join the Screen Actors Guild because the name Elizabeth Mitchell was already taken.
Filmography
Film
Television
Stage
Awards and nominations
Mitchell has won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television in 2008, among other nominations. For her appearance as Juliet Burke on the series finale of Lost, Mitchell was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series in 2010.| Year | Association | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 2006 | Saturn Award | Best Supporting Actress on Television | Lost | |
| 2007 | Monte-Carlo Television Festival | Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series | Lost | |
| 2007 | Saturn Award | Best Supporting Actress on Television | Lost | |
| 2008 | Monte-Carlo Television Festival | Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series | Lost | |
| 2008 | Saturn Award | Best Supporting Actress on Television | Lost | #endnote A| |
| 2009 | Monte-Carlo Television Festival | Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series | Lost | |
| 2009 | Saturn Award | Best Supporting Actress on Television | Lost | |
| 2010 | Primetime Emmy Award | Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series | Lost | |
| 2011 | Saturn Award | Best Actress on Television | V | |
| 2014 | Saturn Award | Best Supporting Actress on Television | Revolution |
- A^ Tied with Summer Glau.