Blossoming young Australian actor Mia Wasikowska has emerged as one of the world’s most bankable film stars.

“I’ve always been fascinated with trying to understand people” … Mia Wasikowska took up acting as a 14-year-old.

At this year’s Sundance Film Festival in Utah, Mia Wasikowska and Nicole Kidman did the press rounds together as they promoted their latest film, Stoker, made by renowned Korean director Park Chan-Wook (of The Vengeance Trilogy fame). As the fellow Australians moved around the snow-trimmed streets of Park City, a herd of paparazzi followed them from place to place. But when Wasikowska left one media interview before Kidman, the paps kept their cameras idle and simply waved a cheery greeting to the young Canberran as she sauntered past solo.

“They were like, ‘Hey, Mia!’ ” she recounts. “I just kept walking and they’re just, like, sitting there waiting for Nicole and no one took a picture of me. It was really good!” Continue reading Mia Wasikowska – up and coming Aussie actress →