After breaking out on HBO’s “The Leftovers” and delivering a stellar leading turn in the 2017 feature “Novitiate,” actress Margaret Qualley is entering the Netflix limited series game with “Maid.” The one-season series is inspired by Stephanie Land’s memoir, “Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive” and is created and written by “Shameless” writer and playwright Molly Smith Metzler.
Netflix released the first trailer on Tuesday, which you can watch below.Qualley stars as Alex, a young woman who’s recently left an abusive relationship with her young daughter in tow.
The two have no money and are living in a shelter.
In order to make ends meet, Alex takes to being a maid.Qualley is the predominate focus in the trailer, but there’s an equally impressive cast surrounding her — including her own mother, actress Andie MacDowell.
MacDowell plays Alex’s mother, Paula,
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