Barely a year after graduating from drama school, Elysia Wren has been cast to star in a £25m stage show based on the Fast & Furious franchise.

The young British actress will play South American street racer Sophia Diaz in Fast and Furious Live, which begins performances at London's O2 in January 2018, before continuing touring the rest of the UK, then Europe and beyond. The brain child of former Top Gear Live creative director Rowland French, the stage show is being billed as the 'greatest ever car show', and it promises to catapult Wren into the spotlight playing one of the production's two central characters.