Heather Mitchell


Heather Lee Mitchell is an Australian actress, appearing in Australian productions of Stage, television and film. She is a graduate of NIDA. She is best known as the lead-actress in the 1990s television show – Spellbinder.

Career

Television

Mitchell is well known for her performance as "Ashka" in the Australian/Polish co-productions of Spellbinder, and . The series was a popular children's fantasy program first broadcast in 1995.
Other television series include: Five Mile Creek, the miniseries Bodyline, I Can't Get Started, Land of Hope as Helen Davies, Embassy 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 railway disaster. She also appeared in episode 1.5 of Rake, episode 2.5 of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, and episode 1.2 of Ms Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries.

Tele-movies

Mitchell starred in Cody I: A Family Affair, Cody II: Bad Love, Cody III: The Tipoff, Cody VI: The Wrong Stuff.

Movies

Films in which she appeared, include:
She appeared in the 2006 Australian tele-movie The Society Murders as Sally Wales, starring alongside Georgie Parker. Other tele-movies she has appeared in include Emerald Falls.

Stage appearances

Theatre productions include The White Devil, Bye Bye Birdie.

Mitchell played Hamlet's mother Gertrude in Bell Shakespeare's Hamlet at the Playhouse, Arts Centre, Melbourne, in July 2008.
In July to August 2011 she appeared in the Belvoir St Theatre's, Neighbourhood Watch. In 2017 she played Edward and Betty in the Sydney Theatre Company production of Caryl Churchill's Cloud Nine directed by Kip Williams.

Personal life

Attended Camden High School in Camden, New South Wales between 1971–1976 and was School Captain in her final year.
Heather took the leading role of Elvira in the 1976 school drama production of Noël Coward's Hay Fever.
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."