Former Shortland Street star Frankie Adams has won a starring role in a new TV series with Oscar winner and Hollywood megastar Sigourney Weaver — one of a sweep of Kiwi actors grabbing top international roles.
The Lost Flowers of Alice, based on the best-selling novel, follows the story of 9-year-old girl Alice Hart, who loses both parents in a mysterious fire and is sent to live on a flower farm with a grandmother she never knew existed.
Weaver plays the grandmother, who holds dark family secrets that Alice learns as the story follows her into adulthood.
The Amazon Prime Video production, filming in Sydney and rural New South Wales, involves an extensive Australian cast, including Nine Perfect Strangers' Asher Keddie and young Alyla Browne, who plays the youngest version of Alice Hart.
Adams, 27, who plays Candy, has developed a global fan base from her four seasons on US sci-fi series The Expanse and has recently been seen in Kiwi series The Panthers. She also stars in Taika Waititi's Next Goal Wins alongside Hollywood stars Michael Fassbender, Elisabeth Moss and Armie Hammer — as well as Kiwis David Fane, Oscar Kightley, Rachel House and Beulah Koale.