Actress Emily Barclay's career, boosted by her breakthrough performance in In My Father's Den - continues to gather international momentum with a major role in a British film.
New Zealander Barclay will be one of the stars of Bronte, a period piece about the 19th-century literary family.
Barclay, 22, plays Anne Bronte, the youngest and least celebrated of the family's three sisters, who died of tuberculosis at 29.
Sisters Charlotte and Emily will be played by American Michelle Williams (Brokeback Mountain) and Brit Nathalie Press (My Summer of Love).
The movie, which starts shooting in Yorkshire in October, also stars Ben Chaplin Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Brian Cox. Chaplin has been in New Zealand filming a children's fantasy movie, The Waterhorse.
The $18 million film will be a gritty biopic which depicts the Bronte sisters as heroines, given their achievements in their short lives against a background of death and disease.
Meanwhile, the Australian film Suburban Mayhem, which stars Barclay in the lead role of an amoral teenage single mother, will screen at the Toronto Film Festival in the event's edgy "vanguard" section. The black comedy has already screened at Cannes.
Barclay cast as Bronte
Emily Barclay
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