Penelope Mitchell (born 24 July 1991; age 33) is an actress who played Renée Picard in the second season of Star Trek: Picard. She also played Tallinn (impersonating Renée) in the episode "Farewell".
Born and raised in Australia to a French artist mother and an Australian businessman father, Mitchell studied ballet from age four to sixteen. She studied to become a lawyer at Melbourne University, while continuing to perform and act.
She appeared in the Australian kids' show Toon Time and guested in the police drama series Rush and the comedy drama series Offspring before moving to the United States to pursue an acting career in Hollywood.
She is best known for her recurring role as Liv Parker in the sixth season of the fantasy drama series The Vampire Diaries (2014-15), starring Paul Wesley, and her co-starring role as Letha Godfrey in the first season of the horror series Hemlock Grove (2013), which starred Famke Janssen.
On the big screen, she appeared in the comic book adaptation Hellboy (2019, with Joel Harlow, Douglas Tait, and Daniel Dae Kim), the horror film Becoming (2020), the superhero satire film The Hyperions (2022), made by and released on the conservative news site The Daily Wire, the supernatural action film R.I.P.D. 2: Rise of the Damned (2022), the thriller What You Wish For (2023), the action film Muzzle (2023, with Grainger Hines), the horror film Sting (2024), and the drama film Oh, Canada (2024).
Star Trek appearances[]
- PIC:
- "Watcher"
- "Fly Me to the Moon"
- "Two of One"
- "Farewell" (also as Tallinn)