Amanda Billing will bring Shakespeare's most famous female character to life in February.
Former long-time Shortland Street star Amanda Billing is set to play Lady Macbeth at Auckland's 'summer of Shakespeare' revival at the popular pop-up Globe theatre.
From December 7 the Globe replica will be back at Shakespeare Gardens at Ellerslie Racecourse with a talented line up appearing in five Shakespeare productions
including A Midsummer Night's Dream, the Merchant of Venice and Julius Caesar.
In February Billing will bring Shakespeare's most famous female character, Lady Macbeth, to life for Macbeth, telling the Herald on Sunday it was a "bucket list" role for her.
Award-winning actress Billing played Dr Sarah Potts on Shortland Street for eight years until 2014, when the character- who had multiple sclerosis- died, prompting an outpouring of national Street fans' grief.
"It's an absolutely privilege to do one of Shakespeare's plays at all, and I think the pop-up Globe is a really wonderful concept," she said.
