Known for Acting
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.
Born
January 1, 1958 (age 68)
Birthplace
Australia
Filmography
49 films, 34 shows


The Fox
2026 · 1h 30m · DE
An affable foxhunter encounters a talking Fox who offers him an opportunity to transform his fiancée into the perfect woman.


The Worm
2026 · 13m · AU
A young man’s strange belief sparks an intervention from his family.


Homespun
2024 · 1h 21m
Georgina and Pauline get their big break to create a show about life in the bush. When a city executive throws out their vision, they stage a ‘shed show’ that puts the spotlight on ‘Stories from the Sticks’.


Ricky Stanicky
2024 · 1h 54m · AU
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.


Jones Family Christmas
2023 · 1h 37m · AU
Grandmother Heather Jones has finally managed to get her family home for Christmas. But before the festivities begin, they receive a fire evacuation order. Now, the family must band together as they rediscover what matters most – each other.


Blaze
2022 · 1h 41m · AU
After a young girl witnesses a violent crime, she summons an imaginary dragon to help process her anger and protect her on her journey into womanhood.


Bosch & Rockit
2022 · 1h 47m · AU
As Rockit grapples to understand why his Mum’s not coming home, he embarks on a magical holiday with his father, Bosch, only to discover they’re actually running from the law. Rockit finds a soulmate and then teenage love with Ash Ash, but it’s the ocean that gives him the security and calm he yearns from his parents. Ultimately Rockit is a boy nurtured and held by nature.


Daddy's Perfect Little Girl
2021 · 1h 25m · CA
A 12-year-old girl becomes jealous when her adoptive father develops a budding relationship with a woman and her teenage son.


Palm Beach
2019 · 1h 38m · AU
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.


Pimped
2019 · 1h 20m · AU
Over the course of one night, Sarah meets the handsome, captivating and smooth talking Lewis, who aims to be the bait in a sick sexual trap set up by himself and his low-life, rich kid housemate Kenneth. When their ruse backfires, Lewis and Sarah are forced into an unlikely alliance with deadly consequences.


Riot
2018 · 1h 45m · AU
A look at the 1970s Gay Rights Movement in Australia through the eyes of dedicated activist Lance Gowland. As Lance deals with his sexuality, he must also juggle work, family and relationships.


Drown
2015 · 1h 33m · AU
Len is a Surf Lifesaving champion, a legend in the cloistered surf club just like his father. When the younger, faster, and fitter Phil arrives at the club, Len’s legendary status starts to crumble. Then Len sees Phil arriving in the company of another man. Phil is gay.


Maya the Bee Movie
2014 · 1h 28m · DE
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 Great Gatsby
2013 · 2h 23m · US
Nick Carraway arrives in New York in 1922, an era of loose morals, glittering jazz and bootleg kings. Chasing his own American Dream, Nick encounters the mysterious millionaire Gatsby and his bewitching cousin Daisy. Soon, Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the super-rich, their illusions, loves and deceits. Bearing witness to this new world, Nick pens a tale of impossible love, incorruptible dreams and unforgettable tragedy -- mirroring our own times and struggles.
The Red Valentine
The Red Valentine
2013 · 15m · AU
When a pair of young lovers are discovered dead, a tangled web of deception unravels revealing that behind the passionate tragedy lies a dangerous truth.


Jack Irish: Bad Debts
2012 · 1h 30m · AU
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 Eye of the Storm
2011 · 1h 54m · AU
In a Sydney suburb, two nurses, Maria and Flora, a housekeeper, Lotte, and a solicitor, Arnold, attend to Elizabeth Hunter as her expatriate son Sir Basil, a famous but struggling actor in London, and daughter Dorothy, a divorced and down at heel princess, convene at her deathbed. They come to make sure they can leave Australia with their hefty inheritance.


A Model Daughter: The Killing of Caroline Byrne
2011 · 1h 34m · AU
Australian television film based on alleged events surrounding the death of Caroline Byrne in June 1995. Byrne was found in the early morning of 8 June at the base of a cliff at The Gap, a notorious suicide spot in Sydney.


The Moment
2011 · 13m
The story of an old man torn from his slumber by a horrible and unshakable vision.


Griff the Invisible
2011 · 1h 33m · AU
Griff, office worker by day, superhero by night, has his world turned upside down when he meets Melody, a beautiful young scientist who shares his passion for the impossible.


Underbelly Files: The Man Who Got Away
2011 · 1h 28m · AU
The story of David McMillan an Australian drug smuggler and the only person in history to escape from Klong Prem prison in Bangkok.
Afterglow
Afterglow
2011 · 13m
AFTERGLOW is a short film about a moment in time when a man is confronted with his past actions. The love of a young woman leads him to a place of the most profound loss. A loss that will force him to question the very meaning of his own life and those he loves.


The Wedding Party
2010 · 1h 37m · AU
When Steve's secret marriage of convenience is discovered by his family, he finds himself at the centre of the world's most farcical wedding, the only problem is, he is in love with somebody else.


Three Blind Mice
2009 · 1h 34m · AU
Three young Navy officers hit Sydney for one last night on land before being shipped over to the Gulf to fight. Sam has been mistreated at sea and is going AWOL, Dean has a fiancé and the future in-laws to meet, and Harry just loves playing cards. Throughout the night the boys lose each other, find themselves, and along the way discover courage, friendship and redemption.


Emerald Falls
2008 · 2h · AU
After a brutal divorce, a mother and her son relocate to the Blue Mountains to run a Bed and Breakfast.


Rogue
2007 · 1h 39m · AU
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.


The Society Murders
2006 · 1h 33m · AU
The Society Murders was the name given to the April 4, 2002 murders of husband and wife millionaire socialites Margaret Mary Wales-King, 69, and husband, Paul Aloysius King, 75 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, by their son, Matthew Wales. The crime and subsequent trial received widespread media coverage throughout Australia and later became the subject of both a book and a television film.


Irresistible
2006 · 1h 43m · AU
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.


Da Kath & Kim Code
2005 · 1h 22m · AU
The squabbling mother and daughter, Kath and Kim, embark on an excursion into the unexplored crannies of life at Lagoon Court, Fountain Lakes.


Hell Has Harbour Views
2005 · 1h 45m · AU
Hell Has Harbour Views is a 2005 Australian television movie starring Matt Day and Lisa McCune. It was written and directed by Peter Duncan, based on the novel of the same name by Richard Beasley. It was nominated for "best miniseries or telemovie" at both the AFI Awards and the Logie Awards, losing to The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant at both; and for two additional AFI Awards and an additional Logie Award, all of which it lost to Love My Way.


The Brush-Off
2004 · 1h 31m · AU
The political adviser to Australia's Minister of the Arts investigates the suspicious death of a disgruntled artist.


Black and White
2002 · 1h 39m · UK
Australia, 1958. When a nine year old white girl is found murdered, police are quick to arrest illiterate Aborigine, Max Stuart. Under interrogation Max admits to the killing. With a legal system compromised by intimidation tactics, the skills of his two gifted but naïve defense lawyers are put to the test.


My Mother My Son
2000 · 26m · AU
Mona and her adult daughter, Kymmy, set out from their country home to get Kymmy's young son from foster care in the city. As they travel they face and overcome many setbacks, and their past and future are explored. They argue and part ways. Kymmy gets to the foster home only to find another obstacle in her way. Mona arrives later and brings about a surprising and provocative resolution.
The Love of Lionel's Life
The Love of Lionel's Life
2000 · 1h 35m · AU
Lionel Burke is young, single and living in a remote Queensland mining town. Life is pretty good apart from the impossible odds of falling in love. Keeping it a secret, particularly from his mates, Lionel strikes up a video relationship with Lena.


On the Beach
2000 · 3h 17m · AU
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 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.


A Little Bit of Soul
1998 · 1h 24m · AU
Richard and Kate are former lovers who are now working independently to find the secret of the aging process. Both apply for funding from the Michael Foundation, and are asked to spend the weekend discussing the proposals with the Head of the Foundation, who happens to be married to the Australian Treasurer. They have a very interesting weekend.


Thank God He Met Lizzie
1997 · 1h 31m · AU
The romantic myth is exposed for Guy when he is plagued by memories of an old girlfriend on his wedding day.


Children of the Revolution
1996 · 1h 41m · AU
A man (Richard Roxburgh) the Australian government blames for 1990s political woes blames his mother (Judy Davis), a communist Stalin seduced in 1951.
Bathing Boxes
Bathing Boxes
1995 · 4m
The ebb and flow of erotic desire makes for a summertime splash in this vibrant realisation by Ann Turner. Inspired by a Jeffrey Smart painting, Turner's work starts out baking in the sun before it takes a cool dip beyond the sexual shoreline.


Muriel's Wedding
1994 · 1h 46m · AU
Socially awkward Muriel Heslop wants nothing more than to get married. Unfortunately, due to her oppressive politician father, Muriel has never even been on a date. Ostracized by her more socially adept friends, Muriel runs into fellow outcast Rhonda Epinstalk, and the two move from their small Australian town to the big city of Sydney, where Muriel changes her name and begins the arduous task of redesigning her life to match her fantasies.


Cody: Bad Love
1994 · 1h 30m · AU
Cody’s investigation of an art theft leads him to Claudia who works at an art gallery where the certificate of the stolen painting is held. His judgement may be clouded when he discovers the federal police suspect Claudia of smuggling the paintings.


Cody: A Family Affair
1994 · 1h 30m · AU
Cody and Fiorelli try to catch diamond smugglers, but the gems are not where they were supposed to be. Cody embarks to infiltrate the dealers who brought the diamonds in from South Africa. He also searches for a missing teenager.


Cody: The Tipoff
1994 · 1h 30m · AU
Cody's childhood friend Mack provides a tip about a burglary in progress. Mack later turns up dead and Cody investigates another friend Jimmy Catter.


Clowning Around 2
1993 · AU
Sim, now a member of the Winter Circus in Paris, befriends Eve, another young clown. Drawn to an experimental style of clowning used by Circus Oz and Cirque du Soleil, the techniques get them both fired, but when Sim returns home to Australia, he finds that he is now the inheritor of a share in the Rathnow Circus.


Proof
1991 · 1h 30m · AU
Martin, a young blind photographer, is divided between his friendship with restaurant worker Andy and the exclusive love that Celia—who is terribly jealous of this new friendship—has for him.


The Everlasting Secret Family
1988 · 1h 34m · AU
A beautiful, if ambitious and amoral, youth is tapped to become the lover of a powerful senator. The young man quickly realizes that he can hold this place, with all its perks, only as long as he is young. He has no other function than being young. With the help of an aged judge, the young man, referred to only as The Lover, contrives a plan to make a change in the way of the world, a plan that will take him years to realize. To succeed, he must manipulate, in subtle and not-so-subtle ways, the senator, his wife, the family chauffeur (who was, when young, a lover), and, by implication, the entire well-planned and controlling everlasting secret family.


The Place at the Coast
1987 · 1h 33m · AU
Teenager Ellie is distressed by forces that threaten the special family holidays she shares with her widowed father. These threats are posed by a new coastal development and her father's new relationship with a local woman. Ellie desperately clings to memories and places that preserve the memory of her late mother.


Malcolm
1986 · 1h 26m · AU
Malcolm is a chronically shy mechanical genius, who has just been fired for building his own tram. He gets Frank, who has just been released from jail, to move in to help pay the bills. With Frank's help, Malcolm turns to a life of crime.
I Can't Get Started
I Can't Get Started
1985
Stalwart aussie actor John Waters is wannabe-novelist Robert Marks. No one can fault his persistence and application in the past - he really wants the big-time bad. The day comes however when he realises his dream and with the royalties flooding in, new friends, a ramp-up in status and not the least, recognition as a precocious new talent, his life style changes. It's not the only thing to change however. He finds he's lost his creativity, the adrenalin has dried up. Is it writer's block or is he simply a one-hit wonder? Very capable supporting cast keep the story moving and the underplayed nature of the film itself makes it thoroughly watchable. Many worse than this to be sure!