Across her acting career, Heather Mitchell has portrayed everyone from Ruth Bader Ginsburg (in a Sydney Theatre Company production) to the chic bridal shop manager in Muriel’s Wedding.
Her latest role is in Fake, the story of a romance scammer inspired by Stephanie Wood’s memoir of the same name, where she plays the passive-aggressive mother of Asher Keddie’s Birdie. What Mitchell loves about the series is that it’s not sensationalised, but rather a fascinating psychological study of how we can “want something to be true so badly that reason and common sense goes”.
