Editing Radha Mitchell (section)

==Early life==
She credits her name as being a result of her mother's experiences in India during the 1970s and her fascination with Indian philosophies.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/english/hollywood/news/I-feel-a-sense-of-home-in-India-Mitchell/articleshow/5958457.cms|title=I feel a sense of home in India: Mitchell|website=[[Times of India]]|date=22 May 2010 |access-date=1 July 2016}}</ref> She grew up in [[Melbourne]], just around the corner from the Como Centre—a multi-storey office, retail cinema and hotel complex, featuring the headquarters of [[Network_10|Channel 10 Television]]—on [[Chapel Street, Melbourne|Chapel Street]], where her mother ran a shop.<ref name="rma">{{Cite web|url=https://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/movies/radha-perplexing-20040808-gdyeau.html|title=Radha perplexing|date=8 August 2004|website=[[The Age]]}}</ref> Mitchell attended [[St Michael's Grammar School]] in [[St Kilda, Victoria|St Kilda]]. Her first credited screen role was that of an eleven-year-old girl from the Australian bush sent to live with her grandmother, on the [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation|ABC TV]] children's television series ''[[Sugar and Spice (Australian TV series)|Sugar and Spice]]'', which was broadcast between 1988 and 1989.<ref name="yahoo">{{cite web | url=https://movies.yahoo.com/person/radha-mitchell/biography.html | title=Radha Mitchell- Biography | publisher=[[Yahoo!]] | access-date=22 March 2013}}</ref> Her experience in the series, along with the drama course she took at St Michael's, sparked her interest in acting.<ref name="rma" /> She then enrolled at [[Swinburne University of Technology]], with the idea of becoming a psychologist. "I thought it was going to be group therapy, that we would go in there and talk about life and people and stuff like that. But it was all rats and stats. I didn't last beyond the first year." Instead, she obtained her [[Bachelor of Arts]] in literature and media studies.<ref name="rma" />