Charlotte Nicdao

TheWrap magazine: Hannah Einbinder, Maya Erskine, Charlotte Nicdao and Punam Patel talk about entertaining viewers — and themselves — during a difficult time. The last 16 months have found people everywhere holed up in their homes and turning to television for the entertainment that can get them through times of isolation and turmoil.

"Don’t stream and drive, thot..." ...is how @ArsonArtist introduced a clip—apparently from a young Australian woman’s Facebook livestream—of her rolling a car in a crash after absentmindedly singing Vanessa Carlton’s "A Thousand Miles".

If you’ve seen it, you know Apple TV+’s Mythic Quest is the perfect blend of heart and humour and Charlotte Nicdao, its lead actress, is no different. Originating from Melbourne, Australia, Charlotte Nicdao never dreamed she’d end up in Los Angeles.

In one of the most affecting pieces of COVID-inspired entertainment from last year, Mythic Quest star Charlotte Nicdao stares out from a computer as her character Poppy Li, a talented, ambitious, enthusiastic, sometimes immature programmer on a medieval role playing video game. The Apple TV show's quarantine episode, orchestrated by the cast and crew after production on their second season was shut down, is perhaps one of the most accurate portraits of the isolation of that period, and Nicdao carries it on her shoulders, embodying extreme loneliness.

A new ABC comedy skewering social media fame has accidentally gone viral, thanks to a Twitter user who apparently mistook a car crash in the series’ debut episode for a real-life accident.