Heather Mitchell

Mitchell is well known for her performance as Ashka in the Australian/Polish co-productions of Spellbinder (1995), and Spellbinder: Land of the Dragon Lord (1997). The series was a popular children's fantasy program first broadcast in 1995.

Other television series include: the miniseries Bodyline (1984), Land of Hope (1986), Embassy (1992) and A Country Practice. In 1998, she starred in the miniseries drama The Day of the Roses, in which she played a victim of the 1977 Granville railway disaster. She has also appeared in episodes of Five Mile Creek (1984), Rake (2010), Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2013), and Ms Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries (2019). In 2021, she played Birdie in The Unusual Suspects.

Theatre productions include The White Devil (August 2000), Bye Bye Birdie (March 2001).
Mitchell played Hamlet's mother Gertrude in Bell Shakespeare's Hamlet at the Playhouse, Arts Centre, Melbourne, in July 2008.[1] In July to August 2011 she appeared in the Belvoir St Theatre's, Neighbourhood Watch.[2] In 2017 she played Edward and Betty in the Sydney Theatre Company production of Caryl Churchill's Cloud Nine directed by Kip Williams.[3]