I would do anything for you, Angela. Strange Days
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It’s easy to see why Nine has built a drama around Kate Jenkinson.
The
She is now the lynchpin in
Amazing Grace, starring as a midwife in a birthing centre attached to the fictional St. Brigid’s Hospital. No stuffy uniforms here, it’s a lot more zen and comes with waterside views.
Grace is pretty accomplished at her work but her personal life is a bit of a mess, a popular TV trope.
Her day is up-ended with the arrival of a pregnant teen, Sophia (Alexandra Jensen) who just happens to be the daughter Grace gave up for adoption when she was much younger (it’s not really a spoiler given it takes place in the set-up). The realisation between the two performers is handled so delicately, it’s one of the episode’s better moments.
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In her research preparing for her
Amazing Grace role as a midwife, actor Kate Jenkinson, watched a lot of TV.
But it wasn’t
Offspring.
One Born Every Minute.
“I watched a lot of that show as part of my research,” she tells
TV Tonight. “Other than professional midwives, I feel like I’ve seen more babies getting born than any other human on the planet!
“But I can understand why people continue to, and will continue to, write stories, incorporating birth & motherhood. It’s the most important relationship that you will ever have …between you and your parents, and especially the woman that grew you inside her.”
Alex Dimitriades star in the premiere of the heartwarming and powerful new drama series,
Amazing Grace, on Wednesday, March 3, at 9.00pm on Nine and 9Now.
Behind the doors of St Brigid’s birthing centre is a captivating world of new life, love and deceit, and right at its heart is Grace (
Kate Jenkinson), a beautifully flawed midwife whose world is turned upside down when Sophia (
Alexandra Jensen), the daughter she gave up for adoption 17 years ago, arrives unannounced and pregnant.
Sophia’s arrival rocks Grace’s world and brings into question all the decisions that have brought her to this point in life.