Elizabeth Mitchell Biography: Net Worth, Business, Occupation, Age, Husband, Children, Family Pictures, Houses, And Things You Need To Know About Her
BIOGRAPHY
Elizabeth Joanna Robertson, now known as Elizabeth Mitchell, is a California-born American actress famous for her lead role as Juliet Burke on the ABC series “Lost”, that was screened from 2006-2010.
Elizabeth Mitchell is notable in her role in “The Santa Clause” movie series. She also appeared as lead actor in other TV series like “Revolution” (2012 – 2014) and “The Expanse” (2018, 2021).
CAREER LIFE
One of Elizabeth’s earliest TV roles was as Dinah Lee in the soap opera “Loving” (1984 – 1985). In 1996, she starred as Laura Malloy in the TV series “LA Firefighters”. She played Jane Chasen in the series “Significant Others” in 1998. She starred as Ashley Holloway in “Time of Your Life” from 1999 – 2000 and as Dr Kim Legaspi in “ER” from 2000 – 2001 and in the series “The Lyon’s Den” as Ariel Saxon in 2003.
Elizabeth worked for six years at Dallas Theatre Center and for a season at Encore Theatre. She co-starred in the 1998 biopic “Gia”, playing the role of Angelina Jolie’s hairdresser. She also co-starred in the 2000 movie “Frequency”. While filming the movie “Frequency”, she broke her nose during one of the shooting sequences. This would be the reason it was told that she got a nose reconstruction surgery later on.
The film “Santa Clause 2”, had Elizabeth Mitchell play the role of Carol Newman who becomes Mrs Claus. This was in 2002. She reprised the role in the sequel “The Santa Clause 3 : The Escape Clause” which was released in 2006. She wi again reprise the role in an upcoming Disney+ limited series. On TV, she played Dr Kim Legaspi, a Psychiatrist and the initial partner of Kerry Weaver in the 2000 – 20001 season of the TV series “ER”. She also played the role of a patient in one episode of “House M.D”.
Most notably, Elizabeth Mitchell played Juliet Burke on the well-known series “Lost”, beginning in the premiere of the 3rd season. She carried on with the role for four seasons; three of them as a main character and one as a repeat act. Elizabeth was cast in the ABC series “V”, a remake of the science-fiction Television miniseries, in March 2009.
She was characterized as only a guest-star cast on “V” by ABC and Warner Bros officials, still, the statement led to forecasts that Elizabeth’s character would be killed off at the end of the fifth season of “Lost”. Her character was indeed absent in the premiere of Lost’s sixth season; the previous season ended on a cliffhanger, which left the fate of her character unknown. Elizabeth was later name lead actress on “V”. She returned for the two-part series finale of “Lost”. “V” continued for yet another season which premiered on January 4, 2011.
Elizabeth Mitchell appeared in a guest-starring role as June Frye on “Law & Order : Special Victoms Unit” in 2011. In 2012, she was casted as Rachel Matheson for the series “Revolution”. She was a replace cast for actress Andrea Roth. The season premiered on September 17, 2012 and ended in May 2014. She starred as U.S Senator Charlene Roan in the science-fiction horror film “The Purge: Election Year” in 2016. In 2022, she joined “FBI: International” in the reprising role of the government agent Angel Cassidy.
For her movie roles, she has taken many a training in stage combat techniques like rapier, dagger and hand to hand combat. Because of similarities in birth name, the actress Elizabeth Banks had to use another name for the Screen Actors Guilds Awards because Elizabeth Mitchell had already been booked earlier.
The blonde actress has had about 5 wins and over 16 nominations for her acting roles. She won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television in 2008. Elizabeth was nominated for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series in 2010. This was for her role as Juliet Burke on the series finale of “Lost”.
PROFILE
Full Name: Elizabeth Joanna Robertson
Age: 52 years old
Birthday: March 27, 1970
Net Worth: $3 million
Children: Christopher Joseph Soldevilla Jr.
Siblings: Kristina Helen Mitchell, Katherine Day Mitchell
Partner: Chris Soldevilla (divorced)
Nationality: American
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA
Height: 5′ 8½” (1.74m)
Profession: Actress
Father: Joseph Day Mitchell (Stepfather)
Mother: Josephine Marian Mitchell
EARLY LIFE
Elizabeth Mitchell was born in Los Angeles, California. Her mother is Josephine Marian Mitchell (née Jenkins), is a lawyer. After she had Elizabeth in 1970, she moved with her to Dallas, Texas, where she met and married Joseph Day Mitchel, a lawyer as well, in 1975. They had two other daughters; Kristina Helen Mitchell and Katherine Day Mitchell.
Elizabeth Mitchell identified and began to follow her passion quite early as she attended Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts located in the Arts District of Downtown Dallas, Texas.
She went on to attend and graduate from Stephens College with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting. She then attended the British American Drama Academy.
PERSONAL LIFE AND RELATIONSHIPS
Elizabeth Mitchell dated actor David Lee Smith from 1995 to 1996.
In 2000, while filming “The Linda McCartney Story”, Elizabeth started a relationship with her co-star Gary Bakewell. After a while, she was engaged to be married to him, but they called it quits in 2002.
Chris Soldevilla, an improvisation actor, later won her heart and they got married in 2004. They lived together on Bainbridge Island, Washington. The marriage was blessed with a son named CJ in September, 2005.
In 2013 Elizabeth and Chris got divorced after 9 years together.