Meet Miss Austen star Mirren Mack who plays maid Dinah
Meet Miss Austen star Mirren Mack who plays maid Dinah
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Miss Austen is a brand new period drama from the BBC and PBS Masterpiece coming to screens today (Sunday, February 2). The show takes its cue from Gill Hornby’s 2020 book Miss Austen, following Cassandra Austen (played by Keeley Hawes) who is seeking out her famous sister Jane Austen’s (Patsy Ferran) personal letters before they fall into the wrong hands. Over four episodes, Miss Austen flits seamlessly between the past and the present as Cassandra muses over her life and loves while re-reading her sister’s correspondence.
The show has an impressive cast including Game of Thrones’ Rose Leslie, Phyllis Logan of Downton Abbey fame, Spaced star Jessica Hynes, and The Midwich Cuckoos’ Synnøve Karlsen as a young Cassandra. Further cast members include veteran star Kevin McNally, How To Get Away With Murder and Harry Potter actor Alfred Enoch, Calam Lynch from Bridgerton and Condor’s Max Irons, reports the Express. Miss Austen also features up-and-coming star Mirren Mack, who plays maid Dinah - here’s where you’ve seen the actress before.
Hailing from Stirling, Scotland, 27-year-old Mack attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She is perhaps best known for her roles in the BBC drama The Nest and Netflix’s feel good coming-of-age series Sex Education as asexual schoolgirl Florence, who shared a poignant scene with Gillian Anderson’s sex therapist Jean Milburn. Reflecting on starring opposite The Crown and The X-Files star, Mack told The Guardian in 2020: “My heart was going so fast during the scenes with her – I did have to keep telling myself ‘remember to act’.”.
She described the whole process of acting alongside the veteran actress simply “jaw-dropping”. In The Nest, Mack portrayed a volatile pregnant teen who comes into the crosshairs of a couple hoping to adopt a baby. She was nominated for the Scottish BAFTA for her performance in The Nest and previously won accolades for her turn in Mudlarks. According to IMDb, she will next be starring in short film Baby and Hedda.
Some of her other roles include The Doll Factory, The Witcher: Blood Origin, Mary & George and Say Nothing. Meanwhile, her film credits include shorts The Painter & The Poet, Mudlarks, Ladybaby, and The Möbius Trip, among other projects. The actress has also trodden the boards in productions of Small Island, Hamlet and Wound. Miss Austen airs on BBC One on Sunday, February 2 at 9.05pm and will be available as a boxset on BBC iPlayer from 6am.
