American actor Hilary Swank is all set to star in Netflix's upcoming space drama, 'Away'. The two-time Academy Award winner has been roped in to play the lead role in the Mars mission drama, reported Variety. Swank will play the role of an American astronaut Emma Green, who must leave her husband and daughter behind to take charge of an international space crew embarking upon a treacherous mission to the Red Planet.

The series is loosely inspired by Chris Jones' article of the same name and is described as being about hope, humanity and how we need one another if we are to embark on a journey of achieving impossible things.