Liz Kingsman joins Parisian comedy series Icon of French Cinema
Liz Kingsman's television career is taking off ... in France!
The Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee, whose acclaimed Fleabag pastiche One-Woman Show is transferring to the Ambassadors Theatre in London's West End next month, has been cast in Icon Of French Cinema, a new comedy being made across the channel.
Based up on the life of arthouse French actor Judith Godrèche, who also stars and directs, and whose English language roles include the US Netflix comedy Medical Police, Kingsman's role is currently undisclosed.
But US entertainment website Deadline reports that the series follows "Judith" as she returns to Paris after exile from Hollywood, intent of making a comeback with a new movie. However, her 16-year-old daughter (Tess Barthélémy) falls in love with her much older dance teacher and Judith is forced to deal with personal ambition, maternal anxiety and the demons of her past with humour and disillusion.
Made by Franco-German channel ARTE with CPB Films and US distribution powerhouse A24, who are handling sales of the series beyond central Europe, Deadline quote the producers as saying it will offer "a personal and unique take on patriarchy and sorority in the post-#MeToo era, in a tone that blends lightness and gravity."
A member of the currently mothballed sketch trio Massive Dad, Kingsman has had guest roles in UK sitcoms such as Starstruck, King Gary and Pls Like and was a lead in Channel 5's 2016 airport customs comedy Borderline.
Icon is the Anglo-Australian performer's second recent substantial role in a Gallic comedy, after she played Rose Pilkington, an English parliamentary assistant in Parlement. Set in the European Parliament shortly after the Brexit vote comes through, Parlement has just shot its third series and airs on the france.tv streaming platform.
Kingsman also speaks a smattering of French in One-Woman Show. And she's released the following trailer for its West End run, demonstrating that she's now rubbing shoulders with Hollywood acting royalty too.