With three big budget Hollywood films under her belt, Australia’s Kate Beahan is enjoying life in Tinseltown.

Beahan stars opposite Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard and Sean Bean in the soon-to-be released psychological thriller Flightplan.

The film has received glowing reviews in the United States, which certainly won’t hurt Beahan’s casting chances in the future.

"There is a whole new level of difficulty in that I am suddenly being considered with women who have really strong profiles and many of whom have won awards and have a really big body of work behind them," Beahan, 30, told AAP from Los Angeles.

"It is the same scenario again possibly that at some point I will either be right for the role or a director will believe in me and push for me and then I will get the next job.

"But I feel like it is a good position to be in. I am happy to be in this position."

Beahan’s two other Hollywood films are yet to be released.

Earlier this year she filmed The Return with Sarah Michelle Gellar and this month finished production on The Wicker Man, playing Nicholas Cage’s love interest.

"Nicholas Cage was really wonderful to work with," she said.

"And there were really strong women in it."

The Wicker Man, a remake of the classic 1973 film of the same name, also stars Ellen Burstyn and Leelee Sobieski.

In Flightplan, Beahan plays a flight attendant named Stephanie.

Directed by Robert Schwentke, Flightplan follows the story of a bereaved woman (Jodie Foster) and her daughter flying home from Berlin to America and at 30,000 feet the child vanishes and nobody seems to have ever seen her on the plane.

Beahan said she learnt a lot about the craft of acting by simply observing Foster.

"She (Foster) was generous and completely without pretence and without any discernible ego," Beahan said.

"She was really incredible to watch because she is so intensely focused on what she does and she really cares about the film as a whole.

"That is pretty impressive for someone who has been working for so long in the industry to still have so much passion and care for what it is she does."

The Perth-born actor got her foot in the door in Hollywood after playing Eric Bana’s girlfriend in acclaimed Australian film Chopper.

She used that role to secure an agent in LA and hit the audition circuit.

"Because Eric’s performance was so extraordinary it was critically acclaimed and so a lot of people in the industry were really familiar with it," she said.

"It opened the door and then I had to push my way through with all my might."

The film is set almost entirely on an airplane, something Beahan said was brave considering the current political climate.

"Post 9/11, to set a film on a plane is kind of a bold move in itself because people don’t trust each other as much when they are flying," Beahan said.

"That just adds to the tension of the film."

Flightplan opens nationally on November 10.