Robyn Malcolm award, Best Actress.

[Lilith7]

Well done her, a really interesting series & a well deserved award.

"Robyn Malcolm has won a best actress award at a film festival in France.

Malcolm won the award, in the International Panorama section, at the Séries Mania Film Festival in Lille

She was recognised for her performance in After the Party, a series she co-created with writer Dianne Taylor.

It was the first time an entry from New Zealand had been considered for an award at the festival.

Malcolm said it was a proud moment after she decided 10 years ago to stay in Aotearoa because she was committed to telling New Zealand stories.

"We're a long way away and you really feel that when you're in a festival in the middle of France. You feel a long way away.

"But the fact that that story connected - and it really connected to predominantly French people who were watching it - just made New Zealand feel really close. So it was wonderful, wonderful."

After the Party follows Penny, played by Malcolm, who accuses her husband Phil of a sex crime against a teenager - but no one believes her.

The festival described Malcolm and her co-star Peter Mullan as an "incredible pair" who "deliver a remarkable story about the weight of accusation and truth".

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/entertain...vdigoPSYkA

[alpha111]

She deserves the award.

[Zurdo]

She was good recently in Far North, about that drug deal gone wrong on 90 Mile Beach. Her and Tem Morrison played a completely normal rural couple, it was good to see.

[Lilith7]

She was good recently in Far North, about that drug deal gone wrong on 90 Mile Beach. Her and Tem Morrison played a completely normal rural couple, it was good to see.

I thought so too, they just seemed to work really together. I hope all Kiwi actors & others in the industry can continue to find work here - we've got some extraordinary talent in this country so it'd be really good if they didn't have to go overseas so often to find work.

[king1]

She was good recently in Far North, about that drug deal gone wrong on 90 Mile Beach. Her and Tem Morrison played a completely normal rural couple, it was good to see.

that was a great series, the wife and I really enjoyed that...