# Eloise Mignon

Eloise Mignon (born 18 September 1986) is an Australian actress. She began her career starring in children's television shows Legacy of the Silver Shadow and Silversun, before appearing in the Australian soap opera Neighbours. She has starred in numerous theatre productions.

## Early life

Mignon was born in Melbourne to French director Jean-Pierre Mignon, and Katharine Sturak, an American. Mignon was educated at Melbourne Girls College, Wesley College and St Michael's Grammar School. Mignon has a Bachelor of Arts (Honours Degree) from the University of Melbourne.

## Career

Mignon worked from a young age in independent theatre, notably with The Black Lung Theatre and Whaling Firm in their multi award-winning production Rubeville where she played Trixi.
Her screen credits include a role in Legacy of the Silver Shadow and a main character Mara Lomax in children's sci-fi series Silversun. She also appears as a prostitute in the Australian film Three Blind Mice (2008), directed by Matthew Newton
From 23 July 2007, Mignon began appearing as Bridget Parker in the soap opera Neighbours. In March 2009, it was announced that Mignon had quit the show along with Steve Bastoni, who played her character's father. Mignon confirmed that she was leaving to return to studying an Arts degree, which she had deferred upon joining the serial. Mignon's character was killed-off.
Mignon performed as Jennifer in the play In A Dark Dark House at the Red Stitch Actors Theatre in Melbourne until 22 August 2009. She performed for the Melbourne Theatre Company in The Grenade, and Return to Earth. In her first screen role since leaving Neighbours, Mignon appeared in a 2010 episode of City Homicide as Layla Pullman.
Since 2010 Mignon has primarily worked in professional theatre in Australia and France. In 2011 Mignon played the role of Hedvig in Belvoir's production of the Henrik Ibsen play The Wild Duck opposite Toby Schmitz and Anita Hegh, directed by Simon Stone. Her performance was praised with one critic commenting "Mignon articulates the young girl's confusion in heartbreaking fashion". The production was invited to perform at the International Ibsen Festival in Oslo as well as the Weiner Festowchen and Holland Festival. Mignon's performance was critically very well regarded.
In 2012 Mignon returned to the Belvoir stage appearing first in Every Breath by writer and director Benedict Andrews, followed by Strange Interlude where she interpreted Madeleine with director Simon Stone, and a new production of the Noël Coward play Private Lives. In 2013 she returned to work with Simon Stone on The Cherry Orchard for Melbourne Theatre Company where she interpreted Anya. Mignon played contortionist Sarah Norden in the opening episode of Season 3 of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries in 2015.
From 2014 to 2016 she collaborated on and performed in two projects with the German auteur Falk Richter- Complexity of Belonging in conjunction with choreographer Anouk van Dijk for Chunky Move and Je Suis Fassbinder with French theatre director Stanislas Nordey at the Théâtre National de Strasbourg and Théâtre National de la Colline, Paris. Both projects were written with her in mind; she performs the role 'Eloise'.
In 2024, Mignon appeared in the television drama Ladies in Black as Jenny.

## Filmography

Film performances :
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2003 | Redskin | Aislin | Victorian College of the Arts Short film |
| 2006 | Wholesalers | Girl | Short |
| 2008 | Three Blind Mice | Grace Newton | |
| 2017 | Lost Gully Road | Cassie | |
| 2022 | Lacerate | Gloria | Short |
Television performances :
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2002 | Legacy of the Silver Shadow | Fiona | Main cast |
| 2004 | Silversun | Mara Lomax | Main cast |
| 2007–2009 | Neighbours | Bridget Parker | Main cast |
| 2010 | City Homicide | Layla Pullman | Episode: "Good Cop Bad Cop" |
| 2014 | Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries | Sarah Nordern | Episode: "Death Defying Feats" |
| 2023 | The Clearing | Lou | Episode: "Suffer the Little Children" |
| 2024 | Ladies in Black | Jenny Giles | Episode: "Beautiful Game" |
Theatre performances :
| Year | Title | Role | Theatre | Director |
| 1997 | Le Malade Imaginaire | Louison | Melbourne French Theatre Company | Michel Bulla |
| 2003 | Entrails | Doll | Oubykh Theatre Corp | Glyn Roberts |
| 2004 | As I Like You | Narrator | Oubykh Theatre Corp | Glyn Roberts |
| 2004 | The Jaundice Table | Various | Oubykh Theatre Corp | Glyn Roberts |
| 2004 | The Desert | Girl | Oubykh Theatre Corp | Glyn Roberts |
| 2007 | Rubeville | Trixi | The Black Lung Theatre and Whaling Firm | Thomas Henning |
| 2009 | In a Dark, Dark, House | Jennifer | Red Stitch Actors Theatre | Wayne Pearn |
| 2010 | The Grenade | Lola McTavish | Melbourne Theatre Company; Sydney Theatre Company | Peter Evans |
| 2011 | The Wild Duck | Hedvig | Belvoir St Theatre | Simon Stone |
| 2011 | Return to Earth | Alice Waster | Belvoir St Theatre | Aiden Fenessey |
| 2012 | The Wild Duck | Hedvig | Malthouse Theatre; International Ibsen Festival, Oslo | Simon Stone |
| 2012 | Every Breath | Olivia | Belvoir St Theatre | Benedict Andrews |
| 2012 | Strange Interlude | Madeleine Arnold | Belvoir St Theatre | Simon Stone |
| 2012 | Private Lives | Sybil Chase | Belvoir St Theatre | Ralph Myers |
| 2013 | The Wild Duck | Hedvig | Holland Festival, Amsterdam; Weiner Festwochen, Vienna | Simon Stone |
| 2013 | The Cherry Orchard | Anya | Melbourne Theatre Company | Simon Stone |
| 2014 | Complexity of Belonging | Eloïse | Chunky Move, Melbourne International Arts Festival | Falk Richter and Anouk van Dijk |
| 2015 | Complexity of Belonging | Eloïse | Schaubühne am Leinener Platz; Théâtre National de Chaillot; Spring Festival Utrecht; National Theatre of Taiwan | Falk Richter and Anouk van Dijk |
| 2016 | Je Suis Fassbinder | Eloïse | Théâtre National de Strasbourg; Théâtre National de La colline, Théâtre de Vidy Lausanne; Théâtre National de Bretagne; MC2 (Grenoble) | Falk Richter and Stanislas Nordey |
| 2017 | Complexity of Belonging | Eloise | Musikhuset Aarhus | Falk Richter and Anouk van Dijk |
| 2017–2018 | Les trois Soeurs | Irina | Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe | Simon Stone |
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