FrankieAdams
- Actor
Starting her screen career on Shortland Street, Samoan-born Frankie Adams was thrown in the deep end with a role as a troubled teen. After four years she left the street in 2014, and headed overseas. In 2016 she landed a part as an aboriginal teen on Australian drama Wentworth, followed by an ongoing role on American sci-fi show The Expanse, as Polynesian marine Bobbie Draper. She made her big screen debut, co-starring as Ilisa, a pregnant Samoan woman who returns home in One Thousand Ropes. In 2023 Australian drama mini-series The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, Adams plays Candy, the adopted daughter of a woman running a refuge.
Screenography
“I’m not a trained actor, I like to keep it as natural as possible. Personally, if I put too much research into it, then I start to overthink it, which makes the performance less authentic. You can put in so much work, but you can never predict what happens on set...”