Netflix’s My Brilliant Career is adapted for television by Liz Doran. Headlining the new adaptation as the indefatigable Sybylla Melvyn is Philippa Northeast, an Australian actress best known for her recurring role as Evelyn MacGuire in soap opera Home and Away. All things considered, My Brilliant Career is Philippa Northeast’s biggest role to date — and it’s a story she’s been familiar with from childhood. For Philippa Northeast, playing Sybylla represents so much more than any other character. Showrunner Liz Doran and director Allyssa McClelland tease My Brilliant CareerMy Brilliant Career is one of the defining pieces of Australian literature from the early 20th century.