Acting
May 26, 1987
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Bella Heathcote
Acting
Biography
Bella Heathcote (Isabella Heathcote, born May 27, 1987, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) is an Australian actress who began taking performance classes at age 12 after her mother's death, as a distraction suggested by her father, a lawyer. She attended Korowa Anglican Girls' School and studied drama at the National Theatre in Melbourne before receiving the 2010 Heath Ledger Scholarship, which helped her transition to a career in Los Angeles. She was previously engaged to director Andrew Dominik from 2010 to 2018 and married Australian architect Richard Stampton in January 2019. She is based in Los Angeles with a home in Phillip Island, Australia. Her notable film credits include In Time (2011) (Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried), Dark Shadows (2012) (Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer), Not Fade Away (2012) (Dennis Quaid, Matthew McConaughey), The Rewrite (2014) (Matt Dillon, Naomi Watts), Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016) (Lily James, Sam Riley), The Neon Demon (2016) (Elle Fanning, Jena Malone), Fifty Shades Darker (2017) (Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan), Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017) (Luke Evans, Rebecca Hall), Relic (2020) (Emily Mortimer, Robyn Nevin), and The Moogai (2024) (Jai Courtney, Sam Worthington). On television she is best known for her recurring role as Amanda Fowler on Neighbours (2009), Nicole Dörmer in The Man in the High Castle (2016–2018), Susan Parsons in Strange Angel (2018–2019), Andy Oliver in Pieces of Her (2022), and Mandy Bond in Scrublands (2023–2025).
Feature Films (18)
Johnny is a successful banker with great respect for and dedication to the people in his life, especially his future wife Lisa. The happy-go-lucky guy sees his world being torn apart when his friends begin to betray him one-by-one.
The Room: A Tribute
Vampire Barnabas Collins is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate and family have fallen into ruin.
Dark Shadows
Three teens blackmail a serial killer into helping them get rid of a violent bully.
Acolytes
In the not-too-distant future, the aging gene has been switched off. To avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency and the way people pay for luxuries and necessities. The rich can live forever, while the rest struggle to negotiate for their immortality. A poor young man who suddenly comes into a fortune of time finds himself on the run from a corrupt police force known as the "time keepers".
In Time
Set in suburban New Jersey in the 1960s, a group of friends form a rock band and try to make it big.
Not Fade Away
The true story of Australia's cat-and-mouse underground mine warfare—one of the most misunderstood, misrepresented and mystifying conflicts of WW I. It was secret struggle BENEATH the Western Front that combined daring engineering, technology and science. Few on the surface knew of the brave, claustrophobic and sometimes barbaric work of these tunnellers.
Beneath Hill 60
Television & Series (9)
In a small town, a priest opens fire on his congregation, killing five parishioners. One year later, a journalist arrives to investigate the tragedy, and after digging beneath the surface finds himself in a life-and-death race to uncover the truth.
Scrublands
The story of the mysterious and brilliant Jack Parsons in 1940s Los Angeles as by day he helps birth the discipline of American rocketry and by night is a performer of sex magick rituals and a disciple to occultist Aleister Crowley.
Strange Angel
Four Australian soldiers are sent on a secret mission to a war-torn country. Mistaken for Americans, they are captured by freedom fighters and produce a hostage video that goes viral. When the soldiers reach celebrity status, they realise that being caught might just be the best thing that could’ve happened to them.
C*A*U*G*H*T
Nora Lin leans on her family as she navigates life and young adulthood in outer borough-NYC.
Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens
Explore what it would be like if the Allied Powers had lost WWII, and Japan and Germany ruled the United States. Based on Philip K. Dick's award-winning novel.
