Bermudian Lana Young has already put the island on the map with her flourishing acting career but she’s keen to help her home country in other ways — in particular, education.

Currently featuring in the drama The Girl on the Train, now showing at a local cinema, Lana wants to bring to Bermuda the revolutionary educational programme Think Equal.

Ms Young’s interest stems from her association with BAFTA and Peabody award-winning film-maker Leslee Udwin who has designed the programme.

Ms Udwin believes “the earlier we start the process of imparting social and emotional learning to children, the greater the impact on lessening disaffection and discriminatory behaviour as the child grows into adolescence and beyond”.

Ms Young says she’s been hugely impressed by the programme and has already reached out to education minister Wayne Scott.

“I believe this is exactly what Bermuda needs as part of our early education curriculum,” said the New York-based actress.

“He has yet to reply. But it’s very important to me and I think extremely important to Bermuda.

“Leslee has over 58 countries ready to embrace this as a mandatory part of their curriculum. I would love to have her come to Bermuda to present it to the powers that be.”

The daughter of real estate agent Margaret Young, and long-time Hamilton Princess employee Stan Young, Lana has seen her career blossom in recent years.

She has appeared in Outcast, a Cinemax production (the creators of The Walking Dead), NBC’s Blindspot, USA’s Satisfaction and on the Netflix Original, Jessica Jones.

But her latest venture might be her most noteworthy yet with The Girl on the Train, released by Universal Pictures, reportedly topping the box office on its opening weekend.

Her role is as a fertility doctor playing opposite Emily Blunt and Justin Theroux.

“My scene was the first on the schedule that day, so I got the great pleasure of meeting both Justin and Emily in the hair and make-up trailer,” she told The Royal Gazette.

“I enjoy when this happens because I get a chance to bond with them a little before going to set. They were both very friendly and made my job extremely easy and enjoyable.”

Ms Young said director Tate Taylor enjoyed her improvisation enough to pull her aside to ask “if I would like to play a joke on Justin”.

While she cannot reveal the joke and give away a piece of the plot, she said the actors’ mouths “hit the floor”.

“It was a short scene but a memorable shoot.”

Based on the bestselling novel by Paula Hawkins, the film has reaped close to $25 million this weekend in the United States and Canada. It is showing locally at the Speciality Cinema.

To follow Ms Young on social media, go to www.facebook.com/actorlanayoung/, or use @lanamyoung for Twitter and Instagram. She also has her own site at www.actorlanayoung.com and at IMDB at http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1506923/

Clips of her work are available on her demo http://vimeo.com/165689523