EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Magnolia Entertainment has signed German actress Harriet Herbig-Matten for management.
Herbig-Matten recently rose to international fame with her starring role in Maxton Hall, Prime Video’s series adaptation of the hit novel from Mona Kasten, which in May “achieved the largest first-week global viewership for an International Original in Prime Video history,” per the streamer, and was quickly renewed for a second season.
In the show from Germany’s UFA Fiction, which occupied the #1 spot of the Prime Video charts in more than 120 countries and territories, the actress plays Ruby, who unwittingly witnesses an explosive secret at her private school Maxton Hall. The arrogant millionaire heir James Beaufort (Damian Hardung) then has to deal with the quick-witted scholarship student, for better or worse. From that point on, he tries to buy Ruby’s silence, and they soon risk everything to be together.
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