Actor Aisha Dee was just 17 years old when she left Australia, moving all the way to the other side of the world in the hope of attending castings where the colour of her skin wasn't remarked on.
After landing gigs on a few lesser-known American TV series, she found her feet as one of the leads of The Bold Type, a cult hit that ran from 2017 to 2021. It's a vacuous show on its surface, about three young women working at a women's magazine in New York City, but was buoyed by the charm of its three leads (among them Meghann Fahy, who would go on to win legions of fans in The White Lotus's second season) and was unafraid to go deep with storylines about representation, reproductive health and discrimination.
