Category: Characters

SOPHIE MAY

SOPHIE MAY
Bubbly and vivacious, Sophie is a well-meaning happy airhead – and quite ditzy. With her infectious giggle she befriends Giles – but other students keep their distance from her. She has another side to her – Sophie seems to have psychic powers and when she becomes anxious or upset, objects start floating around and some very odd things begin to occur around her… Sophie also claims to have had later on an alien encounter and she becomes obsessive over Giles Gordon, who does not share her interest.

Many residents of Sunset Cove are also puzzled by Sophie’s toy rabbit, Mr Fluffy Muffin…

 

Lucy Gamble
Lucy is 17 years old and had only just left high school to join the core cast for Atlantis High. She has already appeared in the Cloud 9 production of William Shatner’s Twist in the Tale – The Green Dress and held the lead roles for Shakespeare’s MacBeth and Twelfth Night.

SABRINA GEORGIA

SABRINA GEORGIA
Uptight and upfront, Sabrina is very catty and scathing to her fellow students. She is possessive of head boy Josh Montana – and detests Giles for his lack of style, taunting him as an “attention seeker”. Sabrina adores fashion and always does her best to look good – she wears the trendy “reb-elz coolwear” and is an influential – and unpredcitable – member of the high school.Her love of fashion is matched only by her love of money and wealth – and she will do what she can to capture the richest catch in town, Josh Montana – even if it requires dressing up as a supervillain?

 

Loren Horsely
Loren has been acting in major NZ productions since 1998 when she appeared in Young Hercules. In 1999 she was the lead actress in the feature film KOMBINATION. She has also starred in Xena and the theatre show Sun and Moon Collide as well as other theatre productions.

JOSH MONTANA

JOSH MONTANA

The head boy at Atlantis High, Josh is a rival to Giles for the affections of Octavia. Square-jawed, clean-cut, handsome, a brilliant surfer – and a rebel with a cause. Very popular with the girls at the school, Josh knows it and is unable himself to pass a mirror or reflection without pausing in admiration. By night he is a superhero crimefighter with pink clothes and flowing cape known as the Silver Lining. Or is he…?

One thing is certain – Josh is attracted to Octavia Vermont and will do all he can to make her his, and this leads to competition with Giles Gordon.

 

Lee Donaghue
Lee is 16 years old and has already appeared in the Tribe Series 2 as “bad boy” Spike. Lee has also appeared in a number of television commercials and in the tv series Fall Out. Atlantis High is Lee’s first core cast role.

OCTAVIA VERMONT

OCTAVIA VERMONT
Giles is captivated by his classmate, Octavia, who is a vision of loveliness to him. Seemingly perfect in every way, she is also very enigmatic. Does she represent the Head Boy, Josh Montana? Or is she really a double-agent for the mysterious “Q”? Octavia has a brilliant intellect and is skilled in music, science, foreign languages, sports, literature. How can a girl at high school know so much about so much?

And is there a chance she really is attracted to Giles Gordon? Giles certainly hopes so…

 

Elizabeth McGlinn
Elizabeth attended Auckland University studying marketing, film, tv and media studies and also trained with Vanessa Alexander. She has played a number of characters on both stage and screen, including Justine on the NZ tv drama Jackson’s Wharf and Valentine in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.

GILES GORDON

GILES GORDON

A kind-hearted “nerd” and the new kid in town- Giles lived a normal life but everything changed when Giles moved to Sunset Cove with his mother, Dorothy, and started attending Atlantis High. Bright, funny, anxious – always a fish out of water. He is the narrator in the series and a voice of sanity in an uncertain world… 

Michael Wesley Smith
Michael is seventeen years old. He has studied drama for four years at school and has taken several drama courses. Michael has had roles in a number of radio plays for Radio New Zealand such as Yellow Bride and The Baby Farmer. Michael was a member of the guest cast in the Cloud 9 production The Legend of William Tell and played the part of Jack in The Tribe Series 1, 2 and 3.