SEASON ONE SYNOPSIS The Wrong Girl is a new contemporary show called The Breakfast Bar, who drama that centres on the adventures fi nds herself torn between two very of 29-year-old Lily Woodward. different men. Brimming with exuberance, optimism Joining Jessica is a star-studded, and cheeky energy, The Wrong Girl is virtual Hall of Fame cast including a sharp, playful and fresh fresh look at Craig McLachlan (The Doctor Blake men and women, friendship, work and Mysteries, Packed To The Rafters), family. It is for anyone who has fallen Kerry Armstrong (Bed of Roses, in love with someone they were never Lantana), Madeleine West (Fat Tony meant to love. & Co., Satisfaction), comedian, author Great job? Tick. Great best friend? and actor Hamish Blake, and Christie Tick. Great fl atmate? Tick. So what Whelan Browne (Spin Out, Peter Allen: could possibly go wrong? Not The Boy Next Door). Based on the best-selling novel by Zoë Fast-rising local acting sensation Foster Blake, The Wrong Girl features Ian Meadows (The Moodys, 8MMM) Jessica Marais – the award-winning stars as Pete Barnett, Lily’s confl icted star of television hits such as Packed best friend. The dynamic Rob Collins, To The Rafters, Love Child and Carlotta fresh from his star turn as Mufasa – as Lily, the producer of a cooking in the acclaimed Australian stage segment on a morning television production of The Lion King, portrays Jack Winters, the charismatic television chef who might just have the essential ingredients for capturing Lily’s heart. Stunning newcomer Hayley Magnus (The Dressmaker, Slide) plays Simone, Lily’s always intriguing fl atmate. SYNOPSIS CONTINUED Other members of this superb Becoming entangled in the hope of ensemble include Doris Younane fi nding that elusive soul mate, Lily (BlackJack, McLeod’s Daughters), is caught between two men – her producer, writer and television best friend Pete and her new work personality Steve Vizard, Kevin colleague Jack. Harrington (Cliffy, SeaChange), Leah Vandenberg (Stupid Stupid This is a series about a group of Man, Tangle), Hugo Johnstone-Burt friends whose lives are brimming (Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, with choices, both delightful and San Andreas), director, playwright infuriating. Viewers will watch as and actor David Woods, and writer, they discover that sometimes the producer and actor Ryan Shelton. right choices lead you to the wrong places – and how sometimes the Lily’s career as breakfast television wrong choices just happen to be producer is always challenging, her right. love-life endlessly complicated and The Wrong Girl her family always on the brink of is for anyone who implosion. Like everyone, she wants has diligently played by the rules, a life rich in romance, a dynamic only to realise everyone else is career and a happy family. Getting playing a different game. there is far from straightforward The Wrong Girl is produced by and over the course of the series, Playmaker Media for Network Ten. Lily will fi nd herself time and time again at impossible junctures. JESSICA MARAIS as Lily Woodward Jessica was most recently honoured credits include the Disney series, with the 2016 TV Week Logie Award Legend Of The Seeker. for Best Actress in Love Child. She Jessica’s fi lm credits include Chasing also starred in the ABC telemovie Satellites, Two Fists One Heart Carlotta, for which she received and Needle and she was the voice two Silver Logie nominations, and of Rochelle in Disney’s animated the US series Magic City opposite feature, Planes. Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Olga Kurylenko. In early 2008, Jessica debuted with the Sydney Theatre Company in Jessica came to prominence with the critically acclaimed production her role in Seven Network’s Packed of A Season At Sarsaparilla and in To The Rafters. Her performance early 2014, she appeared on stage earned her two TV Week in David Berthold’s Cosi for La Boite Logie Awards in 2009 for Most Theatre in Brisbane. Outstanding New Talent and Most Popular New Female Talent, as well Jessica is a graduate of the National as a further four nominations for Institute of Dramatic Art, Australia’s Most Outstanding Actress and Most most prestigious acting school. Popular Actress. In 2011, Jessica was also nominated for the TV The Wrong Girl sees Jessica make Week Gold Logie Award for most her producing debut as Co-Producer. popular personality on Australian television. Her other television LILY WOODWARD Lily is a producer on the successful weekend breakfast television show The Breakfast Bar. Opinionated, quick to react and energetic, Lily has a joyful optimism about her that makes her disarmingly charismatic. Lily lives with her best friend Simone. ROB COLLINS as Jack Winters Born and raised in Darwin, Rob JACK WINTERS Collins spent three years as the Jack is the new chef on The national Indigenous representative Breakfast Bar. He is a kind man and for the Australasian Performing a great chef who has not an ounce Right Association before starring in of vanity despite winning the genetic various local theatrical productions, lottery. Raw and earthy, Jack has a including A Midsummer Night’s sex appeal that is undeniable, which Dream. makes him even more irresistible. In 2013, Rob graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art, where he was awarded the esteemed Roger Allen and Maggie Gray Scholarship for his role as Othello. Rob stared as Mufasa in the acclaimed Australian stage production of The Lion King and was recently seen in the ABC drama series Cleverman. IAN MEADOWS as Pete Barnett Ian Meadows graduated from directed Defender, a segment of Tim PETE BARNETT the Western Australian Academy Winton’s The Turning, which was Lily’s best friend Pete of Performing Arts in 2005. His produced by Robert Connolly and is loyal and honest to television credits include 8MMM, The AACTA nominated for best direction. a fault. He does not Moodys, A Moody Christmas, Rake, Ian’s television writing credits include like rules, pretence and East West 101, Underbelly Files: The Offspring, Spirited, SLiDE, The anything not based on Man Who Got Away, Paper Giants: Moodys and House Husbands. evidence and fact. Pete The Birth of Cleo, Rush and the HBO is an aspiring music Ian has appeared on stage series The Pacifi c. journalist who makes ends downstairs at Company B in meet by working as a Ian has also appeared in the Ladybird, which was produced by his barista in a coffee shop. telemovies Parer’s War, The Shark company Small Things Productions. Net and 3 Acts of Murder. His fi lm In 2008, he performed in The Modern credits include lead roles in Scare International Dead, for which he won Campaign and Killing Ground, both a Glug Award for Young Performer due for release in late 2016. of the Year and was nominated for a Sydney Theatre Award. Ian co-wrote and acted in the AFI Award-nominated short Water and Ian wrote and co-directed the play co-wrote and directed the short Four Deaths In The Life Of Ronaldo fi l mA Parachute Falling In Siberia, Abok at Riverside Theatre Parramatta which won an Australian Writers and his play, Between Two Waves, Guild Award and received an AFI closed the Griffi n Company season Award nomination. Ian adapted and of 2012 and was awarded Belvoir Theatre Company’s 2014 Phillip Parsons Award. He was also nominated for a Greenroom Award for Best Actor for his role as Trip in Other Desert Cities at the Melbourne Theatre Company. HAYLEY MAGNUS as Simone Bryant This vivacious young actor, who the runaway box offi ce hit starring caught the acting bug at an early Kate Winslet and Liam Hemsworth. age, has amassed some impressive Most recently she starred in the credits over the past few years, sci-fi drama series, Childhood’s End, while simultaneously refi ning her based on the novel by Arthur C. craft with roles in several short fi lms Clarke. and local theatre productions. SIMONE BRYANT Following a guest appearance on Outspoken and easy-going, Simone Seven Network’s long-running is Lily’s loyal friend and fl atmate. television series, Home and Away, Simone has no rules, she will lend Hayley gained further attention with you her clothes, share her drinks her role as Philippa in the Australian and fi ght battles on your behalf. teen drama, SLiDE, which screened Simone’s fractured childhood is one on the FOX8 network. She next of the reasons she loves being part featured alongside Toni Collette of Lily’s family. She adores Lily’s and Anthony LaPaglia in the feature parents and has always had a secret comedy Mental before heading crush on Lily’s brother Vincent. to the US to work on the thriller, Mojave. Returning to Australia, Hayley joined the cast of The Dressmaker, CRAIG McLACHLAN as Eric Albrectson Executive producer and star of The Rafters, At Home With Julia, House ERIC ALBRECTSON Doctor Blake Mysteries, TV Week Husbands and Redfern Now 2. It is, Eric is the charismatic, Gold Logie winner Craig McLachlan of course, his ongoing role as the larrikin television host of has enjoyed a stellar career on both complex and compelling Dr. Lucien The Breakfast Bar. He is stage and screen. Blake in The Doctor Blake Mysteries very good at his job but that sees him once again delighting His list of television credits includes has few boundaries. His television audiences both here and behaviour with co-workers The Young Doctors, Neighbours, abroad. Craig’s commitment to the is often unpredictable and Home and Away, Heroes, Always good doctor has been recognised somewhat inappropriate. Greener, Superfi re, Blackjack, with TV Week Silver Logie Catherine The Great, My Husband nominations in the peer-voted Most My Killer, McLeod’s Daughters, City Outstanding Actor category and for Homicide, The Cut, Rescue: Special Most Popular Male Actor.