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Olive Kitteridge, Mare of Easttown and… Penny Wilding? In ‘After the Party,’ Series Mania Winner Robyn Malcolm Joins the Ranks of TV’s Most Beloved Anti-Heroines


Acting opposite Peter Mullan in ‘After the Party,’ which she co-created, Robyn Malcolm won a best actress award at France’s Series Mania.

The only time you see her sitting still is when she is posing and even then, she can’t fully relax,” observes Malcolm, awarded for her turn at Series Mania as best actress in the festival’s International Panorama section. “We realized that so many middle-aged women we see in movies or shows wear a lot of white and giggle, and have these enormous kitchens – like Meryl in that film with Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin [‘It’s Complicated’]. Broadcasted by TVNZ and ABC – Channel 4 has recently acquired U.K. rights – the show was produced by Australia’s Lingo Pictures and New Zealand’s Luminous Beast in association with, and distributed by, ITV Studios.

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