"Audrey’s Children" Trailer: Natalie Dormer Fights for a Groundbreaking Cancer Treatment in Inspiring Medical Drama Based on a True Story

Natalie Dormer stars as real-life trailblazer Dr. Audrey Evans, who defied the male-dominated medical industry to revolutionize pediatric cancer care.

Have we slept on Natalie Dormer? Have we taken her for granted for some reason? It sure feels like it.

Since breaking out with her standout performance as the deliciously conniving Margaery Tyrell in Game of Thrones, Dormer skyrocketed into stardom. She went on to join The Hunger Games franchise, rocking a cool fohawk as the director-turned-rebel Cressida. Before that, Dormer shared a couple of intimate scenes with Chris Hemsworth in the racing drama Rush and made a brief but memorable appearance alongside Chris Evans in Captain America: The First Avenger. She also had a juicy role as 16th-century queen Anne Boleyn in a couple of seasons of the sexy British historical drama The Tudors.

We’d say Dormer was building a career that most actors would envy. So, again, why isn’t Natalie Dormer starring in the next big action franchise? Or why isn’t anyone asking to bring her MCU character, Private Lorraine, back for her own spinoff series? Well, this damn business is a fickle one, isn’t it? Hollywood giveth and Hollywood taketh.

To be fair, it’s not like Natalie Dormer isn’t working—she’s been keeping herself quite busy. After recently starring in the South African crime thriller miniseries White Lies and co-starring alongside Oscar-nominee Naomie Harris in the indie British psychological thriller The Wasp, Dormer has lined up her next big leading role that will surely remind you why she’s the best at playing feisty women with a gung-ho spirit.

In the biographical medical drama Audrey’s Children, Natalie Dormer takes on the role of Dr. Audrey Evans, the real-life British pediatric physician who became a trailblazer in the fight against childhood cancer.

In 1969, Evans had to battle a male-dominated medical industry to advocate for her young patients. Through relentless persuasion and unwavering advocacy, she pushed the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia to establish the first Ronald McDonald House, providing families of children undergoing cancer treatment with a place to stay—without the burden of overwhelming medical expenses.

Against great odds, Evans spearheaded a project that would go on to save and support millions of children and their families worldwide.

Directed by Ami Canaan Mann—the daughter of filmmaker Michael Mann—Audrey’s Children marks her return to feature films after primarily working in television on series like House of Cards, Looking for Alaska, and Friday Night Lights. Mann, who previously directed the 2011 true-crime thriller Texas Killing Fields, brings this inspiring true story to the screen.

The film also stars Jimmi Simpson and Brandon Micheal Hall, with veteran character actor Clancy Brown (The Shawshank Redemption) taking on the role of the hospital’s chief surgeon—a man who clearly doesn’t like being told what to do.

And let’s be honest, no one delivers menacing glances quite like Clancy Brown. He seems perfectly cast as the hospital’s authoritarian figure, standing in the way of Dr. Audrey Evans’ groundbreaking vision.

Written and produced by Julia Fisher Farbman, Audrey's Children is coming to theaters March 28th. Watch the trailer, above.

Here’s the official synopsis:

AUDREY’S CHILDREN tells the untold true story of visionary British physician Dr. Audrey Evans, who burst onto the scene in 1969 as the first female Chief of Oncology at the world-renowned Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Battling sexism, medical conventions, and the subterfuge of her peers, Evans developed the first Neuroblastoma Staging System, co-founded the first Ronald McDonald House for families of patients, and, ultimately, impacted the lives of millions of children and families around the world.