FILM STILLS: CURTIS BONDS BAKER; COURTESY OF UNIVERSAL PICTURES/ABC TV/SUNDANCE INSTITUTE
Khaite top, $650, from
Désordre Boutique; Chloé
pants, $3115, from Parlour X;
Georgia Alice jacket, $1240.
Prices approximate. Hair by
Keiren Street at Vivien’s
Creative; makeup by Naomi
McFadden at Union. Jo Duck
is represented by Artboxblack.
See Buylines for stockists.JANET KING
Viswanathan’s first major
TV role was as a headstrong
young legal researcher in the
local ABC TV series with
Marta Dusseldorp and Huw
Higginson (pictured).BLOCKERS
Her debut US film, alongside
Kathryn Newton (centre) and
Gideon Adlon, created a critical
buzz for being a sex-positive
female teen comedy, and she
nabbed a ‘breakout star’ tag.MIRACLE WORKERS
Viswanathan is currently
appearing in this workplace
comedy series as an angel
alongside Daniel Radcliffe,
with Steve Buscemi as God.
(Streaming now on Stan.)HALA
Veering away from her
inclination towards comedy,
Viswanathan played the titular
lead in this indie film, which had
its premiere at Sundance this
year, as a skateboarding
Muslim teen trying to reconcile
the two sides of her identity.BACK TO
HER
FUTURE