Australian actor Mia Wasikowska began dancing ballet at age 9 and switched to acting by the time she was 15 with a part in a soap opera and then a film. Ever since then, she’s worked in Australia and Hollywood, in both independent productions and big-budget movies, as well as TV. She has said of her career:
“It’s never been about the blockbusters and making a huge ton of money. It’s always been about wanting to do projects about the things that I think are important to be out there, because there’s a lot of stuff that probably doesn’t need to be.”
Let’s see what frock flicks Wasikowska has found important enough to do!
Amelia in September (2007)
Chaya Dziencielsky in Defiance (2008)
Elinor Smith in Amelia (2009)
Alice Kingsleigh in Alice in Wonderland (2010)
Jane Eyre in Jane Eyre (2011)
Helen in Albert Nobbs (2011)
Bertha Minnix in Lawless (2012)
Emma Bovary in Madame Bovary (2014)
Edith Cushing in Crimson Peak (2015)
Alice Kingsleigh in Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)
Anna Novak in The Man With the Iron Heart (2017)
Penelope in Damsel (2018)
Judy in Judy & Punch (2019)
Which of Mia Wasikowska’s frock flick roles do you like best?
![Portrait of a lady said to be Jeanne de Valois, comtesse de la Motte [I would be shocked if this was accurate] by Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, c. 1780 [I'd say post-1783], via Wikimedia Commons](https://i0.wp.com/frockflicks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Jeanne_lamotte_valois.jpg?fit=300%2C175&ssl=1)
Jane Eyre, without a doubt.
Her depiction of Jane Eyre is so good, I love that adaptation. She has that slightly strange fae beauty that is very appealing to me. Anya Taylor Joy also has that weirdness (but isn’t as good an actress IMO as Mia).
Agreed. She’d make a good 15th-century Flemish Madonna.
I’ve only seen the two Alice films and Jane Eyre. Although the latter isn’t my favorite version, I will say that Mia certainly had the fey-like appearance that Rochester described. She does have that sort of face you expect to see in either a fantasy print or a Northern Renaissance painting.
That purple is eye watering…….but in a good way!
I loved her as Jane Eyre and in Crimson Peak. I’ve seen a few of other credits listed here–the Alice movies and Amelia–but Jane Eyre and Crimson Peak are my fave of her frock flick roles. She looks like a Whistler painting come to life in the cream-colored still from Crimson Peak. Also, when will we get a film in which she and Claire Danes are sisters? Great WCW choice!
It’s fascinating how Ms Mia somehow manages to fit so seamlessly into various historic environments without ever quite feeling like someone from Planet Earth – she and Ms Saorise Ronan both have that same slightly eerie ‘Faerie Queen’ aura.
Mia seems to exist outside of time – she’s very unique.
Johnny Depp described Mia as “a wonderful little being from another planet”. There’s something ethereal and other-worldly about her, yet at the same time down-to-earth. She comes off childlike but also mature and wise – extremely vulnerable yet with an unshakable inner strength. Maybe that’s why she’s timeless and can be of any period in history. Its wild that she can pull off “Jane Eyre” with such perfection and still be totally convincing as the crazed call girl in “Piercing”. She’s a great actress – quite unique and magical.