Geraldine Viswanathan

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Geraldine Viswanathan
File:Geraldine Viswanathan at SXSW Red Carpet premiere of BLOCKERS adjusted (cropped).jpg
Viswanathan in 2018
Born (1995-06-20) 20 June 1995 (age 29)
Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation Actress
Years active 2014–present

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.[7] She also played a recurring role in the Australian series Janet King, and stars in the TBS comedy anthology Miracle Workers.[8][9]

Early life

Viswanathan's father, Suresh Viswanathan, is a doctor who works in nuclear medicine and is of Indian 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 runs an acting school called Anja's Place.[10]

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

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,[when?] 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 decided to focus on an acting career in the United States instead.[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.[10][17] In 2017, Viswanathan joined the cast of ABC's drama series Janet King in the role of Bonnie.

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

Her big break came in 2018, when she was cast in the movie Blockers. In the same year, she was cast in the Netflix film 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.[18][19] In 2019, Viswanathan played Rachel in the film Bad Education, which is based on a true story of an embezzlement scandal. She received critical acclaim at the Toronto International Film Festival for the film, which received two Emmy nominations.[10][15]

Viswanathan starred in The Broken Hearts Gallery (2020). The film was due to be released in the summer of 2020, but was postponed to September due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[15] In the film, she stars as the heroine Lucy, a gallery assistant who struggles to give up items from past relationships.[10][15][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]

Viswanathan provided the voice of Tawnie in season six of BoJack Horseman.[16]

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

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

Personal life

In March 2020, Viswanathan purchased an apartment in Brooklyn, New York.[15]

Filmography

Film

Key
Films that have not yet been released 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)
2023 Cat Person Taylor
The Beanie Bubble Maya
2024 Drive-Away Dolls Not yet released Marian Post-production
TBA You're Cordially Invited Not yet released Post-production[24]

Television

Year Title Role Notes
2015 Lost Angels Sarah
2017 The Y2K Bug Addison Episode: "High School River"
Janet King Bonnie Mahesh Recurring role (series 3), 8 episodes
2018 Nippers of Dead Bird Bay Episode: "The Riff Raff"
2019–present Miracle Workers Eliza Hunter (season 1)
Alexandra "Allie" Shitshoveler (season 2)
Prudence Aberdeen (season 3)
Freya Exaltada (season 4)		 Main cast
2019–2020 BoJack Horseman Tawnie (voice) Recurring role (season 6), 3 episodes
2021 Saturday Morning All Star Hits! Lottie Wolfe 3 episodes
2022 Three Busy Debras Narrator (voice) 8 episodes

References

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