Why Vic From NOS4A2 Looks So Familiar

Fans can be forgiven for head-scratching over where exactly they've seen actress Ashleigh Cummings. Her best-known role outside of her home of Australia came nearly a decade ago, when she played Robyn Mathers in Tomorrow, When The War Began.

For the unfamiliar, the film is a bit of an Australian take on Red Dawn. Based on a series of young adult books, it follows a group of teenagers as they are forced to defend their home from a coalition of invaders.

Where Red Dawn was steeped in Cold War paranoia and featured Colorado kids fighting off the armies of Cuba and the Soviet Union, Tomorrow's antagonists are an alliance of Asian countries drawn to Australia for its natural resources.

In the film, a group of soon-to-be college students return from a backpacking trip in the Outback to discover that their rural town has been taken over. The deeply fatalist movie shows the group of teens becoming a guerrilla force, fighting against their much-better prepared occupiers as their numbers dwindle. It ends with the kids successfully pulling off a plot to blow up the bridge into town and disrupt the military's supply lines, at the cost of several of the core group's lives.