Meet Luciane Buchanan, breakout star of Netflix's The Night Agent
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It has been two years since action thriller The Night Agent landed on Netflix, but Luciane Buchanan, one of its stars, still gets messages about it — ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous. “I get a lot of funny ones or funny theories that are totally off the mark,” she says. “But I guess the craziest one I would say was a tweet from Stephen King. What's going on. What is this life?”.
In his tweet, thriller writer King hailed Buchanan’s chemistry with co-star Gabriel Basso and called the show “farfetched, but ridiculously entertaining” — which might explain how it’s quietly become one of the biggest shows on Netflix, pulling in 62 million viewers for a total of 812 million hours since it first aired there in 2023.
For 31-year-old Buchanan, who plays one of the main characters, Rose, it’s been quite a journey. Born in Auckland, New Zealand, she grew up wanting to be an actor “from day dot.”. She went to acting school and booked small jobs with films that came to shoot in New Zealand. Then, during the Covid lockdown, just as she thought she might step away from acting for good, she won the part in The Night Agent with a self-tape.
She was cast as Rose, a tech entrepreneur who ends up going on the run with protagonist Peter Sutherland (Basso) after assassins come for her and her family. “I didn't think it would be a reality being from New Zealand: it felt like a farfetched dream,” Buchanan says.
