Personal Info
Birth date
1958-01-01 (67 Years)
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Australia
Also known as
-Heather Mitchell
Biography
Heather Mitchell (born 1958) is an Australian actress, appearing in Australian productions of stage, television and film. She is a graduate of NIDA (National Institute of Dramatic Art). She is best known for her leading role in the 1990s television show Spellbinder.
Filmography
Grey's Anatomy
8.221
Overview:
Follows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle’s Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.The Great Gatsby
7.362
Overview:
An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche existence, where obsession, madness, and tragedy await.Ricky Stanicky
6.516
Overview:
When three childhood best friends pull a prank gone wrong, they invent the imaginary Ricky Stanicky to get them out of trouble. Twenty years later, the trio still uses the nonexistent Ricky as a handy alibi for their immature behavior. But when their spouses and partners get suspicious and demand to finally meet the fabled Mr. Stanicky, the guilty trio decide to hire a washed-up actor and raunchy celebrity impersonator to bring him to life.The Narrow Road to the Deep North
8
Overview:
The story of Dorrigo Evans, an army surgeon whose short but forbidden affair with his uncle's wife sustains and haunts him through his darkest days in a Thai-Burmese prisoner of war camp in WWII.Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
7.7
Overview:
Our lady sleuth sashays through the back lanes and jazz clubs of late 1920’s Melbourne, fighting injustice with her pearl handled pistol and her dagger sharp wit. Leaving a trail of admirers in her wake, our thoroughly modern heroine makes sure she enjoys every moment of her lucky life. Based on author Kerry Greenwood's Phryne Fisher Murder Mystery novels.Harrow
7.627
Overview:
When a dark secret from this past threatens to be exposed, unorthodox and brilliant medical examiner, Doctor Daniel Harrow, must use all his forensic skills to keep it buried forever.Love Me
6.1
Overview:
The Mathiesons, Clara (30s), Glen (60s) and Aaron (20s), find themselves at an emotional crossroads following an unexpected event that changes their lives forever.Satisfaction
6.6
Overview:
Set in and around 232, an up-market city brothel, Satisfaction reveals the world of five high class escorts and their manager as they juggle the pressures of their private lives with their secret profession.Spellbinder
7.611
Overview:
A group of teenagers go on a school camp in the Blue Mountains in Australia. While at the camp, Paul Reynolds accidentally goes into a parallel universe. This other world is inhabited by a more hierarchic and technologically different society, ruled by a group of people known as Spellbinders.Still Star-Crossed
5.4
Overview:
A period drama that picks up where the famous story of Romeo and Juliet leaves off, charting the treachery, palace intrigue, and ill-fated romances of the Montagues and Capulets in the wake of the young lovers' tragic fate.Bodyline
7.7
Overview:
Dramatization of the 1932/33 Test cricket series between England and Australia. Played in Australia, the series gained notoriety in Australian and worldwide cricketing history for the fact that the English team (headed by captain Douglas Jardine) applied a bowling technique called "leg theory", or more commonly, Bodyline. This technique involved bowlers bowling the ball directly at the batsman's body, and resulted in many of the Australian team receiving numerous bruises and injuries, with batsman Bert Oldfield sustaining a cracked skull. The series generated much anger and resentment towards the English team within Australia and seriously damaged Anglo-Australian cricketing relations at the time.Rogue
6.344
Overview:
When a group of tourists stumble into the remote Australian river territory of an enormous crocodile, the deadly creature traps them on a tiny mud island with the tide quickly rising and darkness descending. As the hungry predator closes in, they must fight for survival against all odds.Darby and Joan
6.143
Overview:
An English widow on a reluctant quest. An Australian detective escaping his past. When lives collide, two strangers embark on an epic outback odyssey together.Maya the Bee Movie
6.178
Overview:
A bubbly little bumblebee rebels against the rules of the hive to make all kinds of friends—from violin-playing grasshoppers to a hornet named Sting.The Strange Chores
4.2
Overview:
Charlie and Pierce are two teenage wannabe warrior-heroes who, together with the spirited ghost girl Que, master the skills they need to replace an ageing monster slayer by doing his strange, supernatural chores.Upright
7.909
Overview:
When family outcast Lucky Flynn learns that his mother is dying, he decides to drive to the other side of Australia to see her, packing nothing but an upright piano for the journey. But his plans are soon turned upside down when he meets the runaway teenager Meg, who’s dealing with some family demons of her own.Reef Break
6.987
Overview:
Cat Chambers is a thief-turned-fixer for the governor of a stunning and seductive Pacific Island paradise. Impulsive, reckless, and irresistible, Cat's less-than-perfect past gives her an instinctive gift for understanding crime and criminals as she becomes enmeshed in fast-paced, high-octane adventures and island intrigue.Starting From Now
4.8
Overview:
"Starting From Now" is a lesbian web series that explores the lives of four inner-Sydney women as they struggle to work out who they are, find a place where they belong, and maybe even find someone to love along the way. After building an international viral following across the first three seasons and reaching 20 million views in less than two years on YouTube, seasons 4 and 5 were acquired for broadcast television and screened on SBS2 in March, 2016.Ms Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries
7
Overview:
In swinging 60’s Melbourne, gorgeously reckless Peregrine Fisher inherits a windfall when the famous aunt she never knew goes missing over the highlands of New Guinea. Peregrine must prove herself brilliant enough to become a world class private detective in her own right.Muriel's Wedding
6.84
Overview:
A young social outcast in Australia steals money from her parents to finance a vacation where she hopes to find happiness, and perhaps love.Wakefield
7
Overview:
Nikhil Katira is a psychiatric nurse working at Wakefield, a facility perched on the edge of Australia's spectacular Blue Mountains. There's one problem - while his patients are getting better, he's getting worse.Jack Irish: Bad Debts
6.4
Overview:
Jack Irish is a man getting his life back together again. A former criminal lawyer whose world imploded, he now spends his days as a part-time investigator, debt collector, apprentice cabinet maker, punter and sometime lover - the complete man really. Jack is an expert in finding those who don't want to be found - dead or alive. He helps out his mates while avoiding the past. That is until the past finds him.The Unusual Suspects
6.367
Overview:
Follows the theft of a multi-million-dollar necklace and the women from different walks of life who come together to ensure that justice is served.Agony Aunts
NYR
Overview:
Welcome to Agony Aunts, where narrator/interviewer Adam Zwar heads further down the river in his hilarious search for answers on dating, cohabitation, marriage, divorce and dating again. Will he find the answers he seeks or will he return more confused than ever? That's if he returns at all.Killing Time
5.2
Overview:
Killing Time is an Australian television drama series on TV1 subscription television channel which first screened in 2011. It is based on the true story of disgraced lawyer Andrew Fraser. In New Zealand it screens on Prime Television. The ten part series is written by Ian David, Mac Gudgeon, Katherine Thompson and Shaun Grant. The executive producer is Jason Stephens. The series was initially due to screen in 2010 but was deferred due to strong violence and horror content scenes of the mini-series, which jeopardised a series of gangland trials that were in progress.On the Beach
6.165
Overview:
The world has finally managed to blow itself up and only Australia has been spared from nuclear destruction and a gigantic wave of radiation is floating in on the breezes. One American sub located in the Pacific has survived and is met with disdain by the Australians. The calculations of Australia's most renowned scientist says the country is doomed. However, one of his rivals says that he is wrong. He believes that a 1000 people can be relocated to the northern hemisphere, where his assumptions indicate the radiation levels may be lower. The American Captain is asked to take a mission to the north to determine which scientist is right.The Day of the Roses
6.9
Overview:
On January 18th, 1977, a crowded commuter train heading for Sydney, came off the track and struck the pillars of an overhead road bridge, crushing part of the train and killing 83 passengers and injuring more than 200 others. This story follows the coronial inquiry into the crash with flash-backs to the main story, and the efforts of the rescuers to free the injured victims.Irresistible
5.4
Overview:
A wife and mother is consumed by the thought that her husband's co-worker is trying to win him away from her and their family.Rain Shadow
7
Overview:
Rain Shadow is an Australian television drama series which premiered on 7 October 2007 on ABC TV. It aired on Sundays at 8.30 pm. The six-part series was produced by Southern Star. Music from The Audreys features in the soundtrack for the show, including the main theme. Rain Shadow was shot in the Adelaide Hills in South Australia and is set in the fictional district of Paringa, a dry land farming area in a rain shadow. It tells the story of two characters who become the means of each other's future. It stars Rachel Ward as district vet Kate McDonald and Victoria Thaine as new veterinary assistant Jill Blake.Palm Beach
5.3
Overview:
A group of lifelong friends reunite to celebrate a special birthday, with Sydney's iconic Palm Beach providing a stunning backdrop for the unfolding drama. The good times roll, with loads of laughter, lavish meals, flowing wine and fantastic music, but slowly tensions mount and deep secrets arise.Acting
TBAThe Fox as Barb
2025The Narrow Road to the Deep North (5 Episodes) as Ella Evans 1980s
2025The Role of a Lifetime (5 Episodes) as Nan
2024Fake (8 Episodes) as Margeaux
2024Ricky Stanicky as Leona
2023Jones Family Christmas as Heather Jones
2023Luxury Escapes: The World's Best Holidays (1 Episode) as Self
2022It's Fine, I'm Fine (4 Episodes) as Maeve
2022Blaze as Jackie Stevens
2022Bosch & Rockit as Wendy
2022Darby and Joan (2 Episodes) as Rosemary
2021Love Me (12 Episodes) as Anita
2021The Unusual Suspects (4 Episodes) as Birdie
2021Daddy's Perfect Little Girl as Fay Broward
2021Wakefield (2 Episodes) as Belle
2019Upright (9 Episodes) as Jen Flynn
2019The Strange Chores (1 Episode) as Inspector (voice)
2019Palm Beach as Eva
2019Reef Break (4 Episodes) as Maeve Devlin
2019Pimped as Sophia
2019Ms Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries (1 Episode) as Edwina Maddox
2018Riot as Joan / Checkerboard Interviewer
2018Harrow (3 Episodes) as Louise Whitehall
2015Drown as Helen
2014Maya the Bee Movie as Nurse / Thekla the Spider (voice)
2014Starting From Now (2 Episodes) as Elizabeth
2013Power Games: The Packer-Murdoch Story (2 Episodes) as Gretel Packer
2013The Great Gatsby as Daisy's Mother
2013The Red Valentine as The Mother
2012Jack Irish: Bad Debts as Mrs Vane
2012Agony Aunts (6 Episodes) as Self
2012Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (1 Episode) as Madame Fleuri
2011Killing Time (2 Episodes) as Judge Hale
2011The Eye of the Storm as June
2011A Model Daughter: The Killing of Caroline Byrne as June Dally-Watkins
2011The Moment as Narrator
2011Griff the Invisible as Bronwyn
2011Underbelly Files: The Man Who Got Away as Rose McMillan
2011Afterglow as Kate Whitcomb
2010The Wedding Party as Rose
2008Three Blind Mice as Kathy
2008Emerald Falls as Catherine Reid
2007Satisfaction (1 Episode) as Georgia
2007Rogue as Elizabeth
2007Rain Shadow (6 Episodes) as Sarah Balfour
2006The Society Murders as Sally Honan
2006Irresistible as Rina
2005Da Kath & Kim Code as Heather
2005Hell Has Harbour Views as Anne
2004The Brush-Off as Fiona Lambert
2004Jessica (3 Episodes) as Unknown
2002Black and White as Roma Chamberlain
2000My Mother My Son as Trish
2000The Love of Lionel's Life as Detective Sergeant
2000On the Beach as British Anchorwoman
1998The Day of the Roses (2 Episodes) as Margaret Shuttler
1998A Little Bit of Soul as Grace Michael
1997Thank God He Met Lizzie as Melanie
1996Children of the Revolution as Mrs. Savage
1995Bathing Boxes as 1st Woman
1995Spellbinder (52 Episodes) as Ashka
1994Muriel's Wedding as Bridal Manageress #1
1994Cody: Bad Love as Simmonds
1994Cody: A Family Affair as Simmonds
1994Cody: The Tipoff as Simmonds
1993Clowning Around 2 as Sarah Gunner
1991Proof as Martin's Mother
1988The Everlasting Secret Family as Wife
1987The Place at the Coast as Margot Ryan
1986Malcolm as Barmaid
1986Land of Hope (10 Episodes) as Unknown
1984Bodyline (7 Episodes) as Edith
Writing
2017Still Star-Crossed (1, 2 Episode) ... Novel, Writer
2005Grey's Anatomy (1 Episode) ... Writer