Anika Noni Rose Joins Cast Of Netflix’s Dramedy Series ‘Maid’

Deadline is reporting that Anika Noni Rose (Dreamgirls, Power) is set as a lead opposite Margaret Qualley and Nick Robinson in Maid, Netflix’s dramedy series from writer Molly Smith Metzler, John Wells Productions, Margot Robbie’s LuckyChap Entertainment and Warner Bros. Television.

The project is inspired by the bestselling memoir Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive from Stephanie Land.

It tells the story of Alex (Qualley), a single mother experiencing poverty, and homelessness when she turns to housekeeping to support her family.

Rose will play Regina, an extremely successful family law attorney and Alex’s client. The youngest lawyer to make partner at her firm, Regina is powerful, smart and possesses an extreme work ethic and insistent perfectionism that she applies to everything in her life: her house, her marriage, her dog. A woman with exquisite taste, her wealth allows her seemingly to have everything she needs in life. Through the course of the series, we see that there is more than meets the eye, and Regina struggles like everyone else.

Rose recently appeared in Hulu’s Little Fires Everywhere and Amazon’s Them: Covenant. She will next be seen in the Netflix film Jingle Jangle A Christmas Journey.

Anika Noni Rose received a Tony Award as Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her 2004 performance in Caroline, or Change, and a Tony nomination as Best Featured Actress in Play for A Raisin In the Sun in 2014, co-starring Denzel Washington. She co-starred in the smash hit film version of Dreamgirls as Lorelle Robinson. She recently starred in the BET television series The Quad. Rose also voiced the character Princess Tiana in in the animated hit, The Princess and the Frog.