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May 1, 2023 · HEATHER MITCHELL: Getting old is fantastic. Everything gets kind of more rarefied and exciting and tangible and I don't know, just more possible. (Love Me, 2021) Hugo: Keep the seniors happy.
- Mitchell 'Showcased For The Genius She Is'
- The 'Cancer Club'
- 'I Was in Heaven': Nida Calls
- Mitchell Meets Her 'Guardian Angel'
- The Mystery 'Godsend' That Kept Mitchell Going
- Mitchell Treads The Boards Once Again
What Mitchell did with those frightening situations was to "file them away". A part of her would "stand outside of it", she says, and observe. Later, she would draw on it in her acting. Now, after four decades starring on Australians stages and screens, Mitchell brings her whole life to her performances, a life that has been lived with love and pas...
Mitchell is a person friends describe as universally loved; a rememberer of birthdays, a bringer of cakes, "Heather will come to rehearsals having learned all her lines," Williams says, "and yet she will have baked three vegan cakes for the entire cast overnight." Friend and filmmaker Jocelyn Moorhouse used to call her "Heather Angel". "She is just...
Mitchell had been left "adrift" by her mother's death. But after enrolling at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) performing arts school, she soon found her place in the world – and her passion. "I loved being there and I loved doing it," she says. "I loved every class. I didn't care if they were repetitive. I was in heaven." She and Hugo...
In 1989, Mitchell had to fly to Broken Hill on a last-minute job. The day before leaving she had been to a clairvoyant who told her she would meet "my guardian angel and it would make itself known to me". She was picked up at the airport by cinematographer Martin McGrath. Three nights later, walking home from the pub, they had taken shelter from th...
For three years, Mitchell had a lump on her breast. "My left hand travelled to it at least 10 times a day," she writes in her memoir. But she was told, after mammograms, that it was benign. Still, she was worried that it was too high up for the mammogram to see and asked for an ultrasound. "And that was when I found out I had grade 3 breast cancer....
The Sydney Theatre company was about to announce the 2022 season last January, which included RBG: Of Many, One, when Mitchell received another cancer diagnosis. "The return that everyone dreads," Martin says. It had been 17 years since the last diagnosis. This time it had been caught early and hadn't spread. "It felt completely different," Mitchel...
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She says that’s because older women no longer buy into old norms around the ageing process and there’s demand for their stories to be told. Now she’s telling her story in a memoir called Everything and Nothing and she’s excited about the next stage of her life.
Jan 13, 2022 · Ever the professional, Mitchell begins to fret she hasn’t talked about Love Me enough, the main obstacle being me throwing questions at her about everything else. Getting older on screen?
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Mar 20, 2024 · Well, Heather “read all the books on her life", plus "I looked at every YouTube clip. I watched all the documentaries and the film On the Basis of Sex. I didn’t necessarily read all the judgments – in terms of preparation, I wanted to get more into her emotional life, as much as her judicial life.
Oct 20, 2023 · If Heather Mitchell has learned one thing over her 65 years, it’s that it’s a true privilege to get to 65. The two-time breast cancer survivor was sitting in a hospital room supporting her dear friend through a chemo session when she got the call to go to the Maldives to shoot Luxury Escapes.
May 22, 2020 · After chemotherapy, when she'd lost all her hair but before they sold their house, out of the blue something magical occurred. An anonymous donor, a fan of her work, left a cheque for $30,000 in ...
