For the duration of August, Apple TV app, will be spotlighting South African storytellers across TV and film in their Women In Power campaign. The work of Micaela Kleinsmith (My Kind of Country), Jodi Balfour (For All Mankind) and Lou Llobell (Foundation) harnesses their innate strength, stirs us to action and inspires us to imagine.
Micaela Kleinsmith showed a penchant for songwriting from the tender age of 14, and after a successful stint on SA Idols in 2016, went on to perform across almost every stage in and around Cape Town in order to hone her live skills. Her onstage vigour served her well as a contestant on the first season of Apple TV+’s My Kind of Country, as Micaela was first championed by masked country South African singer Orville Peck, before going on to be crowned the winner.
Jodi Balfour graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre & Performance at the University of Cape Town, before relocating to Canada and finally settling in Los Angeles, California. As Ellen Wilson in Apple TV+’s drama, For All Mankind, Jodi plays a budding engineer, who becomes one of NASA's first female astronauts before fiercely pursuing a political career in season 3 that sees her elected as the nation's 41st president in 1992.
London-based actress, Lou Llobell, grew up in South Africa after her Zimbabwean mother and Spanish father relocated to Pietermaritzburg when she was eight years old. In Apple TV+’s sci-fi series Foundation she portrays Gaal Dornick, a brilliant mathematical prodigy from the repressed water planet of Synnax. Recruited by Hari Seldon, Gaal becomes an integral part of his plan to preserve civilization.
As three bold Women In Power, Micaela, Jodi and Lou exemplify what it means to channel their talent and creativity into expert performances across these engaging shows. Our curation goes live on August 1st and will be available throughout the month, with various content highlighted in our Women In Power superroom.
Discover the Women in Power curation here: https://bit.ly/3KtwXCf
Watch My Kind Of Country here: https://tv.apple.com/za/show/my-kind-of-country/umc.cmc.k3xdiqrkcoln2fa2ikksndt0
Watch For All Mankind here: https://tv.apple.com/za/show/for-all-mankind/umc.cmc.6wsi780sz5tdbqcf11k76mkp7
Watch Foundation here: https://tv.apple.com/za/show/foundation/umc.cmc.5983fipzqbicvrve6jdfep4x3
