Picnic At Hanging Rock’s Madeleine Madden scores first Hollywood role

SYDNEY actor Madeleine Madden has landed her first Hollywood role, fresh from appearing in Foxtel’s Picnic At Hanging Rock.

SYDNEY actor Madeleine Madden has landed her first Hollywood role, fresh from appearing in Foxtel’s Picnic At Hanging Rock.

The granddaughter of indigenous activist Charles Perkins will star in the big-budget live action imagining of Dora The Explorer alongside Isabela Moner and Eugenio Derbez.

Fresh from starring in Picnic At Hanging Rock Madeleine Madden has scored her first Hollywood role. Picture: James Croucher

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Madden has jumped straight from the set of international television ­series Tidelands to shoot Dora in Queensland.

Details on her role are still to be released, although the film is currently being directed by James Bobin, whose previous credits ­include films Alice Through The Looking Glass and The Muppets as well as the Flight Of The Concords and Ali G television series.

She will appear in the big-budget live action Dora the Explorer movie. Picture: Supplied

The film won’t be released until next August.

Madden, whose earlier acting credits include Redfern Now, Mystery Road and My Place, is one of our big stars on the rise both here and overseas.

Picnic At Hanging Rock has been well received. Picture: Supplied/Foxtel

She’s filmed back- to-back projects since her starring turn in Foxtel’s critically acc­laimed Picnic At Hanging Rock in which she appeared alongside Natalie Dormer, Samara Weaving, Lily Sullivan and Yael Stone.

Next up she will also be seen in TV miniseries Pine Gap.

Originally published as Picnic At Hanging Rock’s Madeleine Madden scores first Hollywood role