Succession Star Sarah Snook Leads Terrifying True Life-Inspired Kidnap Drama
Primetime Emmy, Golden Globe and Screen Actors’ Guild Award-winner Sarah Snook leads highly-anticipated drama All Her Fault – based on a terrifying true-life event premieres on M-Net in January.
When Marissa Irvine (Snook) goes to pick up her young son Milo (Duke McCleod) from his first playdate with a boy at his new school, the woman who answers the door has never seen or heard of either Marissa or her son — beginning every parent’s worst nightmare. As Marissa and her husband Peter (Jake Lacy – The White Lotus; Apples Never Fall) begin a desperate search for their son, their family starts to come apart at the seams.
With new friend Jenny Kaminski (Dakota Fanning, The Perfect Couple; Ripley) the only person that Marissa can count on, the two women form a close and unlikely alliance. Together they hunt for Milo, uncovering deep family secrets that alter the course of both their lives forever. Charged with finding Milo and bringing the kidnappers to justice, Detective Alcaras (Michael Peña, Landman; Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan) unravels the complex and frightening web of deception and lies that has ensnared both the Irvine and Kaminski families, but his moral code is stretched to breaking point.
All Her Fault is based on Andrea Mara’s 2021 novel of the same name, inspired by an event in April 2015 when she went to pick up her then-5-year-old daughter, only to find the home at the address she’d been given, empty. “Much as the logical part of my brain knew there couldn’t really be an elaborate kidnap plan in progress,” Mara wrote, “the ‘parent of small kids’ part of my brain went into sheer panic.”
A woman from next door informed the author that nobody lived at the residence where she thought her daughter was playing, but the bottom stopped falling out of her world when the neighbour told her the family had moved two streets over, and she’d be happy to give Mara their new address. “Five minutes later, I had my daughter by the hand and was joking with the mother about turning up at the wrong house. I didn’t, of course, tell her I’d briefly worried she’d abducted my child. That’s not the kind of thing you say to someone you’ve met twice at a coffee morning,” E! News reports.
Snook – fresh from a run on stage in West End and Broadway production of The Picture of Dorian Gray in which she portrayed all 26 characters herself, winning the Laurence Olivier Award and the Tony Award for ‘Best Actress in a Play’ – told The Hollywood Reporter that Succession had been life-changing and she found how different Marissa was from Shiv, very appealing.
“Shiv is internally cold and stiff and presented. Marissa, there’s a warmth. And so much of it came from costuming – we’ve got knits and cozy jumpers and we’re trying to find a way to keep that warmth alive, even though she’s going through the hellscape of having her child go missing,” she said.
She also executive produced the show and was delighted that it was filmed in her home country of Australia.
“Shaping a culture on set, that was really nice. To be able to take more of a hand in [things],” she said, as well as championing an eco-friendly set, too. “Being in Australia we were able to run the set in a particular way that was much more environmentally friendly,” she said. “We had reusable coffee cups. We had reusable cutlery and plates. I’m a very strong advocate for the environment and what we can do to help reduce waste. We did a lot of things on set, catalysed by [my] being a producer, that I’m really proud of. We had electric vehicles. We had hydrogenated vegetable oil running our unit-based trucks, which is just incredible.”
The series was created for TV by BAFTA-winner Megan Gallagher (Wolf; Lazarus) and written by Gallagher, James Smythe, Pheobe Éclair-Powell and Cam Odedra.
All Her Fault, premieres on 26 January 2026 at 9pm on M-Net (DStv Channel 101), and also on DStv Stream and Catch Up.
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