IRISH actress Orla Brady has delighted her mum by landing one of the few non-bonking roles of her career in an American TV legal drama.

The Wicklow-born beauty is to play no-nonsense attorney Naoise O'Neill in the hit series Family Law, which is aired on the CBS network in the States.

The show features a line-up of female lawyers tackling a range of complicated legal issues in the field of family law, from divorce and child custody to murder.

The only leading male character is a lawyer who joins the firm after his own practice flops.

Orla, who grew up in Bray, Co Wicklow, revealed she was in mum Catherine's bad books after a string of sizzling roles in such dramas as the BBC's Pure Wickedness.

I seem to have had a line of roles where I'm an adulterous woman, she said.

"My mum always says to me, 'Orla what is it about your face that when you walk into a casting area you always get these kind of parts'.

And these days I half expect to walk into a room at a party and see every woman grab hold of their husbands or boyfriends.

Orla joined the cast of Family Law in July and has already recorded six episodes of the drama at the Sony Pictures studio in LA.

Insider say Orla is fast becoming one of the most sought after actresses in Hollywood.

US cinema-goers recently saw her in the acclaimed A Love Divided with Irish heartthrob Liam Cunningham.

An insider said: "Orla not only looks good, but is an extremely versatile and talented actress.

On top of that American audiences just love her accent. She is very much in demand.