Elizabeth Mitchell
Elizabeth Mitchell ( born March 27, 1970 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress.
Life
When Mitchell was one year old, her parents moved from Los Angeles to Dallas, Texas. There, her two sisters were born. The parents were tax lawyers with their own company. In Dallas visited Elizabeth Mitchell, the Booker T. Washington High School for Performing and Visual Arts. On the Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri, and at the British American Drama Academy in London, she studied acting. Mitchell graduated from your degree with the academic title of Bachelor of Fine Arts ( BFA).
2004 Mitchell married actor Chris Soldevilla. Together they have a son (* 2005) and live on Bainbridge Iceland ( Puget Sound) in the U.S. state of Washington.
Work
Mitchell's first professional years were mainly influenced by stage performances in the UK and in the USA. She was six years a member of the Dallas Theatre Centre and another year in the Encore Theater Group Company, where she performed in plays such as, for example, baby and Chicago. Other theater performances in which Mitchell participated were, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum ( "Wow, it drove the Romans " ), Measure for Measure ( Measure for Measure ) and As You Like It ( How You Like It ).
1993 Mitchell received her first role in a television production, in an episode of Dangerous Curves. The cinematic breakthrough she experienced in 1998 on the side of Angelina Jolie in the movie Gia. In this biographical film about the life of bisexual supermodels Gia Carangi Elizabeth Mitchell embodies their beloved Linda. During the filming of the fantasy thriller Frequency ( 2000) with Dennis Quaid and James Caviezel she suffered an accident and broke his nose. On the side of Tim Allen, she played Carol Newman in Santa Clause 2 (2002 ), and four years later Mrs. Claus in The Santa Clause 3 Even in the U.S. series success Emergency Room had recurring guest appearances and worked among others in Spin City, Boston Legal and Dr. House with. Since the beginning of the third season (2006) as Dr. Juliet Burke she was the main cast of Lost. From 2009 to 2011 she played the lead role in the ABC series V - The Visitors. In July 2012, she landed a starring role in the NBC action series Revolution as Rachel Matheson.