Irish actress Laura Donnelly, best known in this country for playing Jenny Fraser on Outlander will star in Joss Whedon’s new Victorian adventure, The Nevers, on HBO. The Nevers will focus “on a group of women in the Victorian era who discover strange abilities and various conspiracies,” as our esteemed colleagues at The Mary Sue reported last summer.
Laura Donnelly will star as Amalia True in The Nevers, which Whedon described as “maybe the most ambitious narrative I’ve created.”
HBO said “The Nevers is an epic science fiction drama about a gang of Victorian women who find themselves with unusual abilities, relentless enemies, and a mission that might change the world.”
Ms. Donnelly also plays Mabel Tolkien in the bio-pic Tolkien, due to be released May 10, and Elvina in the mini-series Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands.
Although The Nevers is currently in pre-production, the names of the other actresses have not been released yet.
Joss Whedon will be teaming up with former Buffy the Vampire Slayer colleagues Jane Espenson and Doug Petrie to produce and write The Nevers.
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Susan Macdonald is the author of the children’s book “R is for Renaissance Faire”, as well as 26 short stories, mostly fantasy in “Alternative Truths”, “Swords and Sorceress #30”, Swords &Sorceries Vols. 1, 2, & 5, “Cat Tails” “Under Western Stars”, and “Knee-High Drummond and the Durango Kid”. Her articles have appeared on SCIFI.radio’s web site, in The Inquisitr, and in The Millington Star. She enjoys Renaissance Faires (see book above), science fiction conventions, Highland Games, and Native American pow-wows.
