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The 27-year-old star of Netflix's latest comedy plays rags to riches entrepreneur Sophia Amoruso in Netflix's new comedy. Here's everything you need to know

The series is loosely based on Amoruso's real-life career, from selling vintage clothes on eBay to creating a global online fashion business Nasty Gal, turning over $300 million a year.

However, since the series was commissioned, Nasty Gal has filed for bankruptcy – but Amoruso is channelling her business instincts into new projects. After publishing her memoir #Girlboss in 2014, she's launched her own new media company called (yep, you guessed it) Girlboss.

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So, what else do we need to know about Netflix's new 13-part comedy, released on Friday 21 April? Find out more about its story and lead actress right here.

32-year-old US entrepreneur Sophia Amoruso is the founder and former CEO of Nasty Gal. In 2002 after dropping out of college, she started selling vintage clothes on eBay in an effort to turn a quick buck.

The story of Sophia Amoruso is that, in her early 20s, we have this girl who is this broke, anarchist, pissed-off-at-the-world college dropout, ” Girlboss series creator and Pitch Perfect writer Kay Cannon says. She ultimately finds her passion of selling clothes online. ... six years later, (she) has a personal net worth of $180 million-plus and 350 employees.

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Nasty Gal had struggled for years, so, sadly, this was less of a shock, she wrote in InStyle earlier this April. We’d been through multiple rounds of layoffs and lawsuit after lawsuit and couldn’t keep up with the ever-changing retail model. After putting my own money into the business in 2015 and handing over the keys to a veteran CEO, I decided to play to my strengths and focus on what mattered most: the brand. I worked on big-picture strategies and partnerships. I gave it hell. But it was already too late.

However, based on the #Girlboss brand she's started another company, a community and media company for women that focuses on redefining success, called surprise – Girlboss.

Amoruso has also been a key part of the new series with Netflix, meeting with star Britt Robertson ahead of filming and serving as executive producer alongside Hollywood star Charlize Theron and creator Kay Cannon.

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Girlboss star Britt Robertson admits she knew nothing about her clothing line or her brand when she auditioned for Netflix's latest comedy. It was only after she got the part that she met Amoruso.

It was weird, Robertson says. It was like a combination of what I had learned about her and from her, but also it is a fictionalised version; we’re not trying to mock or imitate her.

Robertson moved to LA from North Carolina aged just 14, picking up small parts in a range of TV series and movies, including Law & Order, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and Tangled Up In Blue (alongside Robert Downey Jr).

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Now just 27 years old herself, she's starred in movies including Tomorrowland opposite George Clooney and 2017's The Space Between Us. She's also featured in TV series including Under the Dome and supernatural teen drama The Secret Circle.

After meeting her, it’s so funny how similar we are, Amoruso says of Robertson. She’s an incredible talent, but she also brings her own spirit to the character.

Robertson explained that although it was odd playing a fictionalised version of a real person (let alone your executive producer), once filming got underway she felt much more comfortable.

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She was a really big presence early on, Robertson says of Amoruso. She was involved in the production, costume and art design. She was very hands-on with the look of the show, but when we got on to the acting part, she’s not an actor. She doesn’t know what I’m doing. So at that point she took a step back and waited patiently for the episodes to arrive.

While the series doesn't reach the events of the bankruptcy itself, Robertson says she's keen for more series and a chance to dramatise that point in Amoruso's career.

It’s so entertaining! she says. There’s nothing better than playing this girl who thinks she’s found success and spent a decade pouring her love and energy into something that maybe she’s going to have for the rest of her life – and then she has the rug pulled out from underneath her. Then it’s like, ‘You’re starting over, what are you going to do now?’(2017-). While the main character, Sophia Marlowe, may not be the most likeable character on TV, there's no denying that the actress who plays her, Britt Robertson, has talent. In fact, the 27-year-old starlet probably looks pretty darn familiar—but what do you know her from?

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Like most actors, Robertson started out with small roles on a variety of different TV shows—and even a few TV movies. She first began her professional acting career playing Little Sheena in a single episode of

, a 2000 show about a woman with the ability to transform into any animal. From there, Robertson, unsurprisingly, only moved forward. She soon snagged roles in TV movies like

Of course, no budding acting career is complete without a few roles in primetime crime dramas. In 2007, Robertson landed a guest role in an episode of

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(2005-13) star Steve Carell plays the titular character—a lonely widower and newspaper advice columnist who unknowingly falls for his brother's girlfriend. Robertson plays Cara, one of Dan's three daughters. Even though the film only earned a 64 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, acting alongside not only Carrel but also stars like Juliette Binoche, Emily Blunt, Dane Cook, and Allison Pill definitely did wonders for her acting cred.

. The drama, set in 1970s America, followed a group of neighbors as they explored the time's blossoming sexual revolution. Robertson, who was 18 years old at the time, played young Samantha Saxton.

, my goal was that I was going to do a pilot. And I wasn't just going to audition for everything, I was going to do a pilot that I wanted to do, Robertson told BuzzFeed in 2015. I remember reading that script and thinking the character was so small, but I loved that. There's something I really love about having a standout supporting role. She was so young, but having to fend for herself and live on her own, there was sort of something rough-and-tumble about that.

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After losing network advertisers due to its controversial depictions of threesomes, spouse swaps, and drug use and suffering a big dip in ratings,

A young Britt Robertson made an attempt at TV stardom when she took on the leading role of Lux Cassidy in the CW's

. The show, which lasted just two short seasons, followed Cassidy, a streetwise teenager who's been in and out of foster homes her entire life, as she meets her biological parents. Hailed as a combination of

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Likely left its mark on you—if you were one of the few viewers who tuned in each week. The show suffered the lowest ratings on its network during the fall 2011 season.

. While she only appeared in the film's opening, the role was no doubt a major leap forward for the young actress—at least in terms of getting recognized. However, Robertson has admitted that the character wasn't too memorable.

That I had off and I didn't have any time with the material, and I just kind of... I didn't build a character, she explained to BuzzFeed in May 2015. I wasn't thinking about who this girl is or the story. They wouldn't give me a script. I had no idea what was happening in the movie. I haven't seen

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Because I'm just afraid of watching myself in it, but I remember being so sad afterwards and just thinking, like, Oh my god. This was a total opportunity to be a part of the

Is a major goal for actresses everywhere, and Robertson checked that off her to-do list when she was just 21 years old—talk about a

. She soon joined a new CW show, which allowed her to explore an entirely different world. The actress took on the leading role—something she'd soon get used to—in the supernatural drama

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, a show chronicling a group of teenage witches. Embracing a darker tone, the show proved to be worlds apart from her previous gigs. As an added bonus, this show helped Robertson earn a few forever friends, including

Actor Mike Vogel—not to mention an intriguing plot that begged for answers—this show, which was based on a Stephen King novel, was definitely one to watch.

Robertson's character proved to be especially memorable, as she was locked in a bunker by her unstable ex-boyfriend for several episodes, making for some rivetingly dramatic scenes.

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, a film based on a Nicholas Sparks novel. With Scott Eastwood as her co-star, Robertson proved to audiences everywhere that she could handle love stories like a pro, as she got hot and heavy with Eastwood on screen.

. Playing a curious teenager—an easy, if not tired, feat for Robertson—she acted alongside megastar George Clooney. Unfortunately, the movie was a flop at the box office, losing millions of dollars and proving that not everything

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