Cashmere Mafia

Season 1
Season 1
Cashmere Mafia

Behind every successful woman stands, well, three other women. Meet the four Manhattan women bonded by their Ivy League education and boardroom success, in this heartfelt and humorous look at life at the top, as they help and protect each other while conquering New York City in their 5-inch heels.

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Cast

Mia Mason
Mia Mason
Lucy Liu

If it isn’t her role as the ball-busting lawyer Ling Woo in David Kelly’s quirky legal drama Ally McBeal, audiences would remember Lucy Liu as the villainous O-Ren Ishii from Kill Bill: Vol. 1. A New York native and graduate of the University of Michigan, Lucy Liu started off with guest roles on television series like Beverly Hills, 90210, L.A. Law, Home Improvement, and Coach, before landed a recurring role on E.R. and being cast in the Rhea Pearlman sitcom Pearl. Following guest spots on The X-Files, NYPD Blue, and Michael Hayes, she was catapulted to fame with her role as Ling Woo in Ally McBeal. After five successful seasons, an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in 1999, and a series of guest starring roles on everything from King of the Hill, The Simpsons, and Jackie Chan Adventures to Joey and Maya & Miguel,

Liu made another big splash on TV with a recurring role on Ugly Betty. On film, Liu has earned similar success; following a role in the 1995 indie feature Bang, she played opposite Tom Cruise in Jerry Maguire. After appearing in the films Gridlock’d, City of Industry, Love Kills, Payback with Mel Gibson, and Shanghai Noon, she starred alongside Cameron Diaz and Drew Barrymore the 2000 hit Charlie’s Angels and again in the 2003 sequel Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle.

She also provided the voice of Mei in the animated musical feature Mulan, and starred with Bruce Willis and Ben Kingsley in Lucky Number Slevin. Since 2006, Liu has executive produced the documentary Freedom’s Fury and the feature film Code Name: The Cleaner (in which she also starred). She is currently at work on the films Rise: Blood Hunter, Watching the Detectives and Kung Fu Panda, and is developing the projects Beautiful Asian Brides and Charlie Chan.

 

Juliet Draper
Juliet Draper
Miranda Otto

Best known for playing Éowyn in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Australian Miranda Otto made her 1986 big screen debut in Emma's War. Following roles in the features Initiation and The 13th Floor, she gained widespread recognition for the 1991 film The Girl Who Came Late.

Following a string of films that included In the Winter Dark, Dead Letter Office, Love Serenade, and Gillian Welch’s The Last Days of Chez Nous (for which she won critical acclaim as Annie), Otto made her Hollywood debut in Terrence Malick’s 1998 World War II epic The Thin Red Line. She went on to appear with Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer in Robert Zemeckis' What Lies Beneath, Close Your Eyes, and Julie Walking Home before making the first of her two appearances in Jackson’s blockbuster Lord of the Rings trilogy. She has also been seen in the offbeat comedy Danny Deckchair, In My Father’s Den, Flight of the Phoenix with Dennis Quaid, and opposite Tom Cruise in War of the Worlds. After landing a small role in the Australian series The Flying Doctors, Otto guest starred on Police Rescue and in the mini-series The Way We Live Now and Through My Eyes.

In addition to her role in Heroes II: The Return, she was seen opposite John Cusack and John Goodman in the telefilm The Jack Bull. On stage, Otto appeared in a 2003 revival of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House.

Zoe Burden
Zoe Burden
Frances O’Connor

After graduating from the Western Australia Academy of Performing Arts in Perth, British-born Frances O’Connor joined the Melbourne Theatre Company, where she honed her craft in preparation for her 1993 television debut in the Australian series Law of the Land. After a appearing in a series of Australian productions, she netted the title role in the BBC production of Madame Bovary, and in 2004 played opposite Hilary Swank and Anjelica Huston in the American telefilm Iron Jawed Angels.

She made her film debut in Emma-Kate Croghan's Love and Other Catastrophes in 1996, which she quickly followed with 1997’s romantic comedy Thank God He Met Lizzie starring Cate Blanchett. Following appearances in Kiss or Kill and Peter Duncan's A Little Bit of Soul, she turned in a critically-acclaimed performance as Fanny Price in an adaptation of Mansfield Park, her first American film. This led to a string of roles in high-profile features such as About Adam with Kate Hudson, Bedazzled with Brendan Fraser and Elizabeth Hurley, and director Steven Spielberg’s 2001 Artificial Intelligence: A.I.