Mitchell began her career starring on ABC TV's Sugar and Spice in 1988.

Progressing to Neighbours in 1994, Mitchell played two separate characters over her three-year stint on the show. In 1997 she starred in two films, High Art and Everything Put Together, both Independent Spirit Award winners. Other filmsincluding Pitch Black opposite Vin Diesel, Phone Booth opposite Colin Farrell, and Man on Fire opposite Denzel Washingtonsoon followed.

Mitchell gained recognition for her performance in the Academy Awardwinning Finding Neverland, which co-starred Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet. This performance earned the cast a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture.

Mitchell then took the title role in Woody Allen's Melinda and Melinda, followed by a part with Josh Hartnett in Mozart and the Whale and then starred in the movie adaptation of the videogame Silent Hill, which co-starred Laurie Holden and Sean Bean. Though the horror film received mixed reviews from critics, it opened number one at the box office with over $20 million in box office sales.

In 2008, Mitchell starred in Rogue with Michael Vartan, as well as Henry Poole Is Here opposite Luke Wilson and The Children of Huang Shi opposite Jonathan Rhys-Meyers.

For her role in Claire McCarthy's The Waiting City, Mitchell won Best Actress in October 2010 at the Antipodes Film Festival, in St. Tropez, France.

In 2013, Mitchell played the lead role on the ABC drama series Red Widow,and appeared, opposite Gerard Butler, in the action-thriller film Olympus Has Fallen.

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