Battered and betrayed: Anna Friel plays the betrayed Sergeant Odelle Ballard in America Odyseey
Odelle takes incriminating files away on a flash drive and soon finds herself the lone survivor of an air attack on their unit.
Worth a lot: Her character is taken hostage and it soon clear that there is a high price on her life (and death)
Blink and
you'll miss that this bloodied figure in a head scarf is actually
actress Anna Friel in the new upcoming drama American Odyssey.
The British Actress has been cast in the lead role of Sergeant Odelle Ballard in the newly commissioned NBC show.
A
different move for the beautiful actress, she will play a female
solider who has been betrayed and left trying to return home from
Northern Africa.
What a transformation! Anna is unrecognisable in her desert costume
As she tries to communicate that she is still alive she is taken hostage by locals.
She
soon works out that the hit was carried out by Americans and explains
to a young man that she is what the foreign troops are looking for.
Clinging
on to her survival she is then dressed in a headscarf and moved on by
her captors, but not before a photograph has been sent to Al Jazeera.
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Whatever necessary: Anna's character
is willing to try anything to get back home to her family and to reveal
what she's discovered
As
the picture goes viral both her loved ones and her enemies are learn
that she is still alive and both work on what they can do about it.
Corporate
litigator Peter Decker (played by Peter Facinelli) finds himself
working with the immoral company and as he begins to connect the dots
discovers just how deep the corruption goes.
He
works with Harrison Walters (Jake Robinson), a political activist and a
hacker, Bob Offer (Nate Mooney) to try to publicly unearth the truth.
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Hostage: After her team is attacked she is the only soldier left alive and is duly kept as prisoner
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Not long! American Odyssey will air in the US on April 5.
Anna's
most popular TV role since her move to the US was Charlotte in Pushing
Daisies, a pie-maker, with the power to bring dead people back to life.
This role is a stark contrast from the feel good comedy.
American Odyssey (formerly Odyssey) will air in the US on April 5.
Name change? Only a month before the air date the show changed its name from Odyssey to American Odyssey