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Geraldine Viswanathan (/ˌvɪswəˈnɑːθən/ VISS-wə-NAH-thən;[1][2] born 20 June 1995)[3] is an Australian actress. She gained attention in the role of Kayla in the 2018 film Blockers,[4] for which Refinery29 referred to her as "the film's breakout star".[5] Viswanathan starred in the 2019 coming-of-age film Hala,[6] as well as Bad Education opposite Hugh Jackman and Allison Janney.[7] She also played a recurring role in the Australian series Janet King, and currently appears in the TBS comedy anthology, Miracle Workers.[8][9]

Geraldine Viswanathan
Viswanathan in 2018
Born	(1995-06-20) 20 June 1995 (age 27) Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2014–present

Early life

Geraldine's father, Suresh Viswanathan, is a doctor who works in nuclear medicine and is of Indian Tamil descent.[10] Her mother, Anja Raith, is from Switzerland[11] and was raised by a father who was a filmmaker and ballet dancer.[12][13][14] Raith was once an aspiring actress who attended musical theatre school in London before getting married and settling down in Newcastle; she has now started an acting school called Anja's Place.[10]

Viswanathan grew up with a younger sister and a deep love of horses and animals.[15][10] She attended the Hunter School of the Performing Arts, Newcastle, where she was in drama class.[15][10]

At the age of 15, Viswanathan and her family moved to Los Angeles, California for a few months, where she went through the process of securing a manager with the hopes of obtaining Disney and Nickelodeon roles.[16] In later years, Viswanathan performed standup and sketch comedy with her group named "Freudian Nip".[15]

In 2015, Viswanathan was shortlisted for the Heath Ledger Scholarship.[10] She contemplated going to university to study international studies and media, but instead dove into acting and made working in America her goal, as roles in Australia are limited.[16]

Career

At the age of four, Viswanathan appeared in a Kodak television commercial.[10] In 2016, she appeared in Emo the Musical and went to Los Angeles for her first pilot season.[17][10] In 2017, Viswanathan joined the cast of ABC's drama series Janet King in the role of Bonnie.

Her big break came in 2018, when she was cast in the movie Blockers alongside Leslie Mann and John Cena, who played her father.[10] In the same year, she was cast in the Netflix movie The Package and the drama film Hala which went to Sundance Film Festival. The Hollywood Reporter included her in its "Next Gen Talent" list as one of "20 rising stars among the blockbuster breakouts and small-screen discoveries who are shaking up the industry".[10]

In 2019, Viswanathan was cast in the anthology series Miracle Workers alongside Steve Buscemi and Daniel Radcliffe.[18][19] Bad Education (2019) sees Viswanathan play alongside Hugh Jackman and Allison Janney as the character of Rachel.[15] The film is based on a true story of an embezzlement scandal and received critical acclaim at Sundance Film Festival, as well as some Emmy nominations.[15][10]

Viswanathan starred in the Selena Gomez produced feature film, The Broken Hearts Gallery (2020), in Toronto, Canada. The film was due to be released in Summer of 2020, but was postponed to September due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[15] In the film, she stars alongside fellow Australian Dacre Montgomery, playing the heroine Lucy, a gallery assistant who struggles to give up items from past relationships.[15][10][20] About the film, she noted that she feels fortunate to represent brown girls on screen, and appreciated that her mother in the film is blonde and looks a lot like her real mother.[15]

As a voice actor, Viswanathan played Tawnie in season six of Bojack Horseman.[16]

In October 2021, she was added to the psychological thriller film Cat Person, based on a short story by Kristen Roupenian published in 2017 in The New Yorker.[21]

In January 2022, Viswanathan was cast in a multi-starrer film The Beanie Bubble co-directed by Kristin Gore and Damian Kulash.[22]

Personal life

Viswanathan resides in Brooklyn, New York.

Viswanathan was once a reader in casting rooms, and was the reader for the Australian casting process for Crazy Rich Asians.[10]

Filmography

Film

Key

	Denotes films that have not yet been released

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2016	Emo the Musical	Jamali
	All Out Dysfunktion!	Vizzie
2018	Blockers	Kayla Mannes
	The Package	Becky Abelar
2019	Hala	Hala Masood
	Bad Education	Rachel Bhargava
2020	The Broken Hearts Gallery	Lucy Gulliver
2021	7 Days	Rita	[23]
	Rumble	Winnie Coyle (voice)
TBA	Cat Person		Filming
TBA	The Beanie Bubble		Filming

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2015	Lost Angels	Sarah
2017	The Y2K Bug	Addison
2017	Janet King	Bonnie Mahesh	Recurring role (series 3), 8 episodes
2018	Nippers of Dead Bird Bay
2019–present	Miracle Workers	Eliza (season 1) Alexandra "Allie" Shitshoveler (season 2) Prudence Aberdeen (season 3)	Main cast
2019–2020	BoJack Horseman	Tawnie (voice)	Recurring role (season 6), 3 episodes
2021	Saturday Morning All Star Hits!	Lottie Wolfe

References

External links

• Geraldine Viswanathan at IMDb

На других языках

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- [en] Geraldine Viswanathan

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[es] Geraldine Viswanathan

Geraldine Indira Viswanathan (Newcastle, Nueva Gales del Sur, 20 de junio de 1995) es un actriz australiana de cine y televisión.[1] Destacan sus papeles en Blockers y El paquete, ambas de 2018.

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[ru] Вишванатан, Джеральдин

Джеральдин Вишванатан (англ. Geraldine Viswanathan, род. 20 июня 1995) — австралийская актриса, наиболее известная благодаря роли Кайлы в фильме «Секса не будет!!!»[1], главной роли в драме «Хала»[2], роли в картине «Безупречный» и роли в комедийном сериале-антологии «Чудотворцы»[3][4].

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