‘Wentworth: Halfway Home’: Grace Chow & Nadine Garner Among 9 Joining Cast; Watch Trailer

EXCLUSIVE: Nine more cast have joined Binge drama Wentworth: Halfway Home, which has also dropped a trailer a series of first-look images.

Good Cop/Bad Cop actress Grace Chow, Nadine Garner (High Country: What Lies Beneath), Elaine Crombie (Invisible Boys), Sara West (Troppo), Claude Jabbour (Last King of The Cross), Daniel Henshall (Last Seen), Laura Gordon (Watching You), Thom Green (The Survivors) and Chika Ikogwe (Heartbreak High) have joined the ensemble alongside the returning Katrina Milosevic, who plays Susan ‘Boomer’ Jenkins, Nicole da Silva as Franky Doyle and Kate Box Lou Kelly.

Others cast in the show include Rachel Griffiths as Moira, Sophie Lowe as Sam, Alex King as Dee and Chenile Chandler as Lily. Production is currently underway in Melbourne ahead of a launch on DAZN’s Binge in Australia. Fremantle is shopping it internationally.

The story follows Boomer, who arrives at Sal’s Halfway House freshly paroled and determined to get custody of her daughter. However, when body turns up, seeding distrust among the residents.

A first-look clip has landed five years to the day after the final episode of Wentworth went out on October 26, 2021. Towards the end, we see newly-released Boomer speaking to a prison officer outside the facility. “Nearly forgot… can you pass this on to the girls for me,” she says. “I’m out! Bitches!”

As for the new cast, Garner said: “For many years I had friends and colleagues creating and working on Wentworth… It became a solid fixture of screen work in Victoria. I admired the show from afar and the incredible world that they had built as a team. I never dreamed I would be stepping into this next chapter and am so grateful for the opportunity to carry forward the story for their dedicated audience. It’s a real thrill for me.”

Original Wentworth producer Fremantle Australia is making the show, with major production investment from Binge parent Foxtel and Screen Australia, and the show was financed in association with VicScreen.

Carly Heaton and Brett Popplewell are executive producers, Jessica Paine is co-executive producer and Dean O’Toole is the producer. Daniel Monaghan is Executive Director of Content for Foxtel, Lana Greenhalgh and Joshua Longhurst are Executive Producers for Foxtel. Gracie Otto is Set Up Director, alongside directors Nina Buxton and Tenika Smith. Jessica Brookman is script editor. The writers are Jessica Paine, Kodie Bedford, Alexandra Cullen, Hannah Samuel, Alix Beane, Romina Accurso, Nikki Tran and Chris Squadrito.