The Irish TV presenter turned actress is terrific in role played by Emily Blunt in hit 2016 film
Out of control: Laura Whitmore as Rachel in The Girl on the Train
When journalist Paula Hawkins made her first foray into thriller-writing in 2015, her book was a sensation. It’s a tautly written account of an alcoholic woman who is so out of control, she’s not sure what she has seen when she witnesses a crime. It found a ready readership amongst those who thirst for dark scandal behind the twitching curtains of respectable suburbia.
It soon morphed into a film starring Emily Blunt, an obvious route for a domestic thriller, and then a play. Irish TV presenter turned actress Laura Whitmore stars as the “mess” Rachel, who spends the play swigging out of an array of vodka and wine bottles, as she turns amateur sleuth.