Brady Truebridge

Played by Miriama Smith Brady Truebridge (late thirties) is the beautiful, driven, formidable second wife of John Truebridge. She has gone from a humble apprentice hairdresser in Gisborne to the head of one of the country's largest corporations. Brady might not have an MBA, but she is street smart, and an excellent reader of people. She is adept at using this to her own ends, though she is not unkind, or without principle.

Brady's one mistake was getting knocked up to a charming wastrel when she was young. She loves her daughter, Kennedy, and is determined she will have the advantages Brady dreamed of as a child - looking at the glossy magazines in the houses her mother cleaned.

Brady met John Truebridge when she was managing a hair salon, and he was quickly besotted by her mind as much as her beauty – and left his wife, Vivian, to marry her.

Brady is of Maori, Dalmatian and Scottish stock, and has bad stuff in her background - but she doesn't really think about the past, it’s the future and how she can control it that interests her.

If she had to define her political beliefs they would be of the Maggie Thatcher, pull yourself up by your boot-straps kind.

Brady is all about winning and is ruthless in pursuit of her goals – and those of the company. Sometimes this ambition can blind her to the harm she does to those closest to her.