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How bank worker Yasmin Seky landed life-changing role in RTÉ’s gritty new drama Kin

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The 23-year-old had last heard from Louise Kiely 10 years earlier, who in the intervening years had become one of Ireland’s powerhouse casting directors, bagging an Emmy nomination for discovering the almost unknown young cast of Normal People.

Within a week she found herself auditioning for a pivotal role in Kin, the hotly anticipated new RTÉ crime drama which also stars Aidan Gillen, Maria Doyle Kennedy and Emmett Scanlan.

With a cast of acting heavyweights who have featured in Peaky Blinders, Game Of Thrones and Outlander, it’s not surprising the series centred around a fictional crime family.

And the home produced series is already drawing comparisons to The Sopranos. Seky, who is set to be the breakout star of the Irish series, is

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