Netflix has added six actors to the cast of Icebreaker, expanding the ensemble of its upcoming college hockey romance series based on Hannah Grace’s bestselling novel. The announcement brings a mix of emerging performers and familiar faces to a story where sporting ambition and romantic complications share the same rink.

The news follows the reveal of the show’s central pairing, setting the stage for a romance that has already built a substantial readership. The adaptation is shaping up with a young ensemble whose characters orbit the competitive worlds of figure skating and hockey.

The series’ newly announced cast brings together performers from film, television, and music. Auliʻi Cravalho known for voicing the titular character in Disney’s Moana, joins the series as Lola, alongside Gabriel Tierney, who appeared in Rivals and Enola Holmes 2, as Aaron.

The additional cast includes professional athlete Peter Berry as Robbie, Chaneil Kular (S** Education) as JJ, Devin Craig (The S** Lives of College Girls) as Henry, and Aidan Shaw (We Were Liars, Heated Rivalry) as Russ.

The six actors join Daisy Jelley and Connor Simos, who were announced as leads a day earlier by Netflix Tudum, playing Anastasia “Stassie” Allen and Nate Hawkins, respectively. Jelley’s credits include How to Have S** and Geek Girl, while Simos is set to appear in the Chris Hemsworth-starrer, Subversion.

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With its principal couple and supporting players now taking shape, the series brings a popular romance property into Netflix’s expanding slate of book adaptations.

Icebreaker, the book, follows Stassie (Daisy Jelley), a competitive figure skater determined to reach Olympic gold, whose plans are disrupted when an accident forces her team to share a rink with the university’s hockey players. Nate (Connor Simos), a hockey player pursuing a professional career, becomes an unexpected complication as their rivalry gives way to attraction.

The story draws from Hannah Grace’s novel, the first installment in her three-book Maple Hill series, which is known to have spent 70 consecutive weeks on The New York Times bestseller list and sold nearly five million copies worldwide. 

The Netflix series, on the other hand, is being created by Jade Halley Bartlett, whose credits include Miller’s Girl and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Amanda Lasher, known for Gossip Girl and The Bold Type, serves as showrunner and writer. Unwell Productions’ Alex Cooper, Matt Kaplan, and Mina Lefevre executive produce alongside Bartlett and Lasher.

Netflix has previously adapted romance novels into screen hits, and Icebreaker extends that strategy into the increasingly visible sports-romance space. With its newly expanded cast joining Jelley and Simos, the adaptation is beginning to assemble the ensemble needed to bring Grace’s campus romance, and its emotion on ice, to a new audience.

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