An award-winning actress is to appear on our TV screens again after gaining the lead role alongside some of Hollywood’s finest.
Bexley-born Mia McKenna-Bruce is to play the main character in The Seven Dials Mystery on Netflix.
Set in 1925 England, the plot revolves around a practical joke which goes murderously wrong at a lavish country house party.
The Agatha Christie-led adaptation also stars Martin Freeman and Helena Bonham Carter. It is penned by Broadchurch writer Chris Chibnall.
According to IMDB, Mia leads the cast of “the witty, epic, and fast-paced drama as Lady Eileen Bundle Brent - a young, determined sleuth”.
Actress Mia, 26, moved to Kent as a pre-teen when she attended Maidstone Grammar School for Girls (MGGS) in Buckland Road.
Her biggest rise to fame came following her performance in the hit film, How to Have Sex, last year.
It led to her winning a British Independent Film Award, the BAFTA Rising Star Award and being nominated for the European Film Award for Best Actress.
While still at school, she also starred as Tee Taylor in the BBC children’s show Tracy Beaker Returns and its spin-off, The Dumping Ground.
Speaking to KentOnline earlier this year, Mia said: “I was really lucky that I did work from the age of about seven but acting as a child to doing it as an adult is a very different thing.
“MGGS were amazing at letting me balance it all – obviously, coming back to school and trying to catch up with the work was a bit mental, but they were great.
“I didn’t go to drama school or anything like that. I didn’t expect any of this – I think that makes it all the more special.”
The Seven Dials Mystery is the first series to go into production with Orchid Pictures.
Netflix says it will begin filming on the series in the coming months.
Since leaving school, Mia has starred in a Netflix adaptation of Jane Austin’s Persuasion alongside A-listers like Dakota Johnson, Richard E. Grant and Henry Golding.
She has also appeared in The Witcher alongside Henry Cavill and in The Last Train to Christmas opposite Michael Sheen.
