Profile

Ethnicity
Samoan
Location
Auckland, New Zealand
Height
180 cm
Age Range
26–34
Also Represented in
United States of America
Career Highlights
Best known for playing fan favorite “Bobbi Draper” in the Amazon series The Expanse which last year aired its final season, Frankie can also be seen in the limited series The Flowers of Alice Hart opposite Sigourney Weaver for Amazon as well as Taika Waititi’s feature Next Goal Wins alongside Michael Fassbender and Elisabeth Moss for Fox Searchlight. Her credits include the NZ limited series The Panthers which premiered at TIFF, Peter Jackson’s Mortal Engines for Universal and the lead of director Tusi Tamasese’s feature One Thousand Ropes which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, the follow-up to his Samoan film The Orator, both of which were shortlisted for the Academy Awards foreign-language category from New Zealand. Frankie’s additional credits include the Luc Besson feature Valerian with Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne, a recurring role on the award-winning Australian series Wentworth, and five seasons of the long running NZ series Shortland Street
Awards.
2015 | Finalist - TV Guide Best On The Box - Sexiest Woman 2015 | ||
2014 | Metro Magazine's Sexiest Woman - Winner |
Short Film.
2020 | Minimum Mass | Rabia | Dir. Areito Echevarria & Raqi Syed |
2017 | Stand Up Girl | Stacey (Guest) | NZME Dir. Aidee Walker |
2014 | Promise of Piha | Lani (Lead) | Neasian Dialex Productions Ltd Dir. Hanelle Harris |
Virtual Reality Film.
2019 | Minimum Mass | Rabia (Support) | New Zealand Film Commission’s Interactive Development Dir. Raqi Syed |
Feature Film.
2018 | Same But Different: A True New Zealand Love Story | Herself (Guest) | Raw Productions Dir. Nikki Si'ulepa |
2018 | Vai | Mata (Support) | Vendetta Films Dir. Various |
2017 | Mortal Engines | Yasmina Rashid (Support) | Hungry City LTD Dir. Peter Jackson |
2016 | One Thousand Ropes | Lisa (Lead) | Transmission Films Ltd Dir. Tusi Tamasese |
2015 | Valerian | Boulan Empress (Motion Capture) | Dir. Luc Besson |
Television.
2022 | The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart | Candy | Dir. Glendyn Ivin |
2021 | The Expanse - Season 6 | Bobbie Draper (Lead ) | Alcon Entertainment Dir. Various |
2020 | Teine Sa | Ana, Sina, Te'a, Pele, Drama Teacher (Lead) | Dir. Various |
2020 | The Expanse - Season 5 | Bobbie Draper (Lead ) | Alcon Entertainment Dir. Various |
2020 | The Panthers | Tessa | TVNZ Dir. Miki Magasiva, Vea Mafileo & Tom Hern |
2018 | The Expanse - Season 4 | Bobbie Draper (Lead) | Syfy Channel Dir. Various |
2017 | The Expanse - Season 3 | Bobbie Draper (Lead) | Syfy Channel Dir. Various |
2016 | The Expanse - Season 2 | Bobbie Draper (Lead) | Syfy Channel Dir. Various |
2015 | Wentworth - Season 4 | Tasha Goodwin (Guest ) | Fremantle Media Australia PTY. Limited Dir. Various |
2010 | Shortland Street | Ula Levi (Core Cast) | South Pacific Pictures Dir. Various |
Presenter.
2018 | Class Act | Mentor (Lead) | Dir. Bianca Ikinofo |
Training.
Audition Technique Course - 2014, Margie Haber Studio USA | |||
US Accent Training, Terri De'Ath - 2013 | |||
One-on-one Training, Miranda Harcourt - 2011 |