Finally, a hot new addition is here! Australian actress Bella Heathcote has officially signed on to the Fifty Shades of Grey sequel to star as Christian Grey’s ex-girlfriend Leila Williams.
The Twitter account for the popular BDSM – based trilogy announced Heathcote as its latest casting choice for the film trilogy.
Please welcome Bella Heathcote as Leila Williams in #FiftyShadesDarker. https://t.co/9QTejNNrQB pic.twitter.com/Y4DPG8scFQ
— Fifty Shades of Grey (@FiftyShades) February 5, 2016
In the erotic romance book series written by E L James, Williams is one of Grey’s “ex-subs,” or ex-submissive lovers, who suffers a mental breakdown, resurfaces, and then begins to stalk Grey’s new love and girlfriend, Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson).
Jamie Dornan portrays the brooding, troubled billionaire in all books’ movie adaptation.
Heathcote’s name may be unknown to American audiences, but the actress has been training since the young age of 12.
“My mum passed away when I was 12, so I think Dad was all for me being distracted,” she told the New York Times’ T Magazine in 2012, about how she ended the acting business. “I don’t know that he thought speech and drama would lead to a career. At the time, it was just an escape.”
She has worked with Johnny Depp, in Tim Burton’s 2012 film adaptation of Dark Shadows, and most recently played Jane Bennet in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
She is perhaps best known, however, for her role as Amanda Fowler in the hit Australian soap opera Neighbours, where Kylie Minogue and Margot Robbie also had major parts.
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