Frankie Adams Actor Profile

Frankie Adams is currently appearing as Sina, the strong-willed mother of Moana, in Disney's live-action MOANA, starring Catherine Laga'aia and Dwayne Johnson. She recently starred opposite Jason Momoa and Dave Bautista in Amazon MGM Studios' THE WRECKING CREW, directed by Ángel Manuel Soto, and will next be seen as the lead in the New Zealand horror feature MOTHER KNOWS BEST, alongside Keisha Castle-Hughes.
Best known internationally for her breakout role as Bobbie Draper in Amazon Prime's acclaimed sci-fi series THE EXPANSE (5 seasons), Frankie has also starred in Amazon's THE LOST FLOWERS OF ALICE HART opposite Sigourney Weaver, Taika Waititi's NEXT GOAL WINS, and New Zealand limited series THE PANTHERS, based on the rise of the Polynesian Panther movement in New Zealand in the 1970s.
Her feature credits include MORTAL ENGINES for director Peter Jackson, ONE THOUSAND ROPES for director Tusi Tamasese, his follow-up to his feature debut THE ORATOR, which was shot in Samoa and made the shortlist of nine films in the 2012 Oscar Foreign Language category, Luc Besson's VALERIAN, the award-winning Australian drama WENTWORTH, and five seasons of New Zealand's long-running series SHORTLAND STREET.