In 1999, Mitchell graduated from Chaminade College Preparatory School and then began studying film production at Loyola Marymount University.

[2] Mitchell's first major film role was at age 15 in The Crow: City of Angels, playing teenaged drug addict Grace.

[4] In March 2016, she was cast in the Pop Hollywood Darlings with fellow 1990s' child stars Jodie Sweetin and Christine Lakin.

In April 2024, it was announced that Mitchell would co-host along with her former co-stars, Mackenzie Rosman and David Gallagher, a 7th Heaven rewatch podcast named, Catching up with the Camdens.

[6] Mitchell married her long-time boyfriend Michael Cameron on October 1, 2008, in Ravello, Italy on the Amalfi Coast.