STORY SO FAR: Frances O’Connor

Currently starring in both Troy: Fall Of A City (9.10pm, BBC1) and Cleverman (Sunday, 11.10pm, BBC2), Frances, 50, is one of Australia’s most successful exports of recent years…

Down under: One of five children, Frances was born in 1967 in Wantage, Oxfordshire; her mother was a pianist, and her father was a nuclear physicist. When she was two, her family moved to Perth,

Australia where, after school, she attended the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.

Standing out: In 1996, Frances made her big-screen debut in the critically acclaimed indie romcom Love And Other Catastrophes.

The following year, she took the lead in Kiss Or Kill, and co-starred in Thank God He Met Lizzie. Queen’s English: Having perfected her British accent, she starred as Fanny

Price in Mansfield Park (1999), which brought her widespread attention and led to roles in feature films including Bedazzled (2000), AI Artificial Intelligence (2001), The Importance Of Being Earnest (2002), Timeline (2003),

Book Of Love (2004), The Lazarus Child (2005), Blessed (2009), The Hunter (2011),

Jayne Mansfield’s Car (2012), Mercy

(2014) and The Conjuring 2 (2016).

You probably recognise her from…

In 2001, Frances was nominated for a Golden Globe for her lead performance in the television adaptation of Madame Bovary, which aired on BBC2. Other notable small-screen roles include Rose Selfridge in ITV’s Mr Selfridge (2013-14) and Emily Hughes in BBC hit The Missing (2014).