Olivia Colman to star in The Lost Daughter

‘The Lost Daughter’ is a story about Leda (Olivia Colman), a Leeds-born lecturer who goes alone on a beach holiday from her house in Massachusetts to a paradise island in Greece. It is clear from the get-go that she has no intention of socialising with anyone. She's even unapproachable to Lyle (Ed Harris), the elderly property caretaker.

Later, Leda discovers a deserted beach, only for a big family of New Yorkers to intrude on her space. She gently declines to move when the annoying Callie (Dagmara Domincyk) asks her to. However, two family members — Nina (Dakota Johnson) and her little daughter Elena — fascinate her, and she becomes engrossed in watching the pair.

As she watches them, she is overcome by her recollections of the horror, uncertainty, and intensity of early parenthood. Eventually, she is thrown into the weird and scary realm of her own mind, where she must confront her unorthodox past choices as a young mother.

‘The Lost Daughter’, based on a book of the same name by Elena Ferrante, is Maggie Gyllenhaal's directorial debut after a long acting career. She received recognition for her performance in ‘The Dark Knight’ (2018) and won a Golden Globe award for Best Actress for her performance in the BBC political-thriller miniseries ‘The Honourable Woman’ (2014).

Olivia Colman and Dakota Johnson feature in this star-studded drama. Colman has appeared in a number of films, including ‘The Iron Lady’ (2011), ‘The Lobster’ (2015), ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ (2017), and ‘The Favourite’ (2018), for which she received an Academy Award for Best Actress. Johnson, on the other hand, is most known for her role in the ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ film trilogy (2015-2018). She won a BAFTA Rising Star Award in 2016 for her part in the series.

‘The Lost Daughter’ will be released on UK’s Netflix on 31st December 2021.