Heather Mitchell

Heather Mitchell is an Australian actress who has worked across stage, television and film. Born in Australia and trained at the National Institute of Dramatic Art, she began performing on stage in 1975 and first appeared with the Sydney Theatre Company in 1981, and she is a board member of that company. She became known internationally for playing Ashka in the children's fantasy series Spellbinder (1995) and its follow-up Spellbinder: Land of the Dragon Lord (1997). Her television work takes in the miniseries Bodyline (1984), The Day of the Roses (1998), Rake (2010), Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2013) and The Unusual Suspects (2021). On stage she starred in Never Did Me Any Harm (2012), co-wrote and appeared in You Animal, You (2018), and has played Ruth Bader Ginsburg in RBG: Of Many, One from 2022, a performance critics called a tour de force.