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name: "Frankie Adams"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/frankie-adams"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "3 January 1994"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T16:58:19.582930+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Frankie Adams

Actor. Born 3 January 1994 in Auckland City, Auckland, New Zealand.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 3 January 1994, Auckland City, Auckland, New Zealand
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie_Adams, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23879973, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4213877/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1753341

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Expanse*](https://film.one/tv/the-expanse.md) (64)

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## Biography

Frankie Adams is a New Zealand actress of Samoan heritage. Born on 3 January 1994 in Savaiʻi, Samoa, she moved to New Zealand as a child and attended Auckland Girls' Grammar School.

Her first acting role was as Ula Levi in the New Zealand soap opera *Shortland Street* (2010–2015). She later appeared in the Australian series *Wentworth* (2016) and the film *One Thousand Ropes* (2017). In 2016 she was cast as Martian Marine Bobbie Draper in the science fiction series *The Expanse*, appearing in seasons two to six (2017–2022).

Adams has also featured in *Mortal Engines* (2018), *The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart* (2023), and is set to appear in *Moana* (2026) and *The Wrecking Crew* (2026). She has participated in amateur boxing, including a charity event.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, deadline.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Expanse* (2015), Fi1m 64, as Bobbie Draper — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-expanse.md)

## Complete filmography (11)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Moana* (2026), as Sina
- *The Wrecking Crew* (2026), as Haunani Palakiko
- *Mother Tongue* (2024), Executive Producer
- *The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart* (2023), series, as Candy
- *The Expanse: One Ship* (2021), series, as Roberta 'Bobbie' W. Draper
- *The Panthers* (2021), series, as Tessa
- *Minimum Mass* (2020), as Rabia
- *Mortal Engines* (2018), as Yasmina Rashid
- *One Thousand Ropes* (2017), as Ilisa
- *The Expanse* (2015), series, as Bobbie Draper — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-expanse.md)
- *Mother Knows Best*, as Talia

## Gallery

- ![Frankie Adams](https://film.one/media/person/850158/gallery-f8a654232ad1.jpg) Frankie Adams — Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Frankie_Adams_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg/1280px-Frankie_Adams_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Cas Anvar, Frankie Adams and Naren Shankar speaking at the 2018 WonderCon, for "The Expanse", at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. Please at](https://film.one/media/person/850158/gallery-207041c390a3.jpg) Cas Anvar, Frankie Adams and Naren Shankar speaking at the 2018 WonderCon, for "The Expanse", at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. Please at — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Cas_Anvar%2C_Frankie_Adams_%26_Naren_Shankar_%2839254266250%29.jpg/1280px-Cas_Anvar%2C_Frankie_Adams_%26_Naren_Shankar_%2839254266250%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Frankie Adams (2016)](https://film.one/media/person/850158/gallery-de93d12b68bf.jpg) Frankie Adams (2016) — Jeff Hitchcock, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Frankie_Adams.jpg/1280px-Frankie_Adams.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Frankie Adams speaking at the 2018 WonderCon, for "The Expanse", at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if u](https://film.one/media/person/850158/gallery-3f3121a7e846.jpg) Frankie Adams speaking at the 2018 WonderCon, for "The Expanse", at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if u — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Frankie_Adams_%2827191938728%29.jpg/1280px-Frankie_Adams_%2827191938728%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Frankie Adams speaking at the 2018 WonderCon, for "The Expanse", at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if u](https://film.one/media/person/850158/gallery-3d0c99c1edc7.jpg) Frankie Adams speaking at the 2018 WonderCon, for "The Expanse", at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if u — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Frankie_Adams_%2839254317790%29.jpg/1280px-Frankie_Adams_%2839254317790%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Frankie Adams speaking at the 2018 WonderCon, for "The Expanse", at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if u](https://film.one/media/person/850158/gallery-ea919a772489.jpg) Frankie Adams speaking at the 2018 WonderCon, for "The Expanse", at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if u — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Frankie_Adams_%2840169847745%29.jpg/1280px-Frankie_Adams_%2840169847745%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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