It was Sarah Snook's big break.
But when the Aussie actor first read the script for the TV series Succession, she had doubts about playing the role of Siobhan 'Shiv' Roy.
"I was... like 'I don't know why I'm going in for Shiv, I'm not Shiv, I can't play this character,'" she told Harper's Bazaar UK.
"She's very different from me, so I think I was intimidated."
For Snook, who grew up in Adelaide as the youngest of three girls, playing the only daughter of Scottish media magnate Logan Roy, was far from the life she knew.
"I thought, 'This is not me, I don’t know what a billionairess is like, I can’t play it,'" she told Harper's Bazaar.
However, she decided to give it her best shot, telling the publication, "I said, 'I'll give you what I can do'."
Now over four years and four seasons later, the 35-year-old has been catapulted to worldwide fame thanks to her role in the hit series, which follows the wealthy and scandalous Roy family.
As we prepare for season four of Succession to hit our screens next week, here's a look at everything we know about Sarah Snook's life inside and outside the spotlight.
Sarah Snook's early career.
Snook always knew she wanted to become an actor.
Growing up, she won a drama scholarship to Scotch College in Adelaide, before moving to Sydney to study at Australia’s National Institute of Dramatic Art.
"I always knew I wanted to pursue drama, I felt that it was always a given that it was going to be a part of my life," she told NIDA.
Acting allowed Snook to follow in the footsteps of her grandmother, who was a theatre actor in London.