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 S├®ries 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...