Return to Paradise's Anna Samson is 'full of worry' as she addresses 'unemployed life'

British-born actress Anna Samson has admitted she is "full of worry" about unemployed life as Return to Paradise returns for a second series on BBC.

Anna isn't complacent about her future in a notoriously insecure industry.

Describing her regular mid-afternoon walks to New Zealand Woman's Weekly, she explains: "This unemployed life sounds so delightfully relaxing, doesn't it? I promise it's also full of worry about when the next job might come along!"

Return to Paradise IS one of a pair of spinoffs from long-running comedy drama Death In Paradise, which has been one of the BBC's hottest properties since its debut in 2011. The other is British-set Beyond Paradise.

Surviving numerous changes in its leading character - Ben Miller, Ralf Little and Kris Marshall have all starred at various points - Death In Paradise has demonstrated that viewers are more interested in cosy mysteries and gorgeous scenery than any one particular actor.

The gorgeous scenery behind Anna is that of Dolphin Cove - a fictional beachside town somewhere in the Illawarra region of New South Wales.

Like other shows in the so-called "Paraverse," Return to Paradise features a fish-out of water detective trying to solve crimes while managing domestic drama.

But Anna isn't exactly a stranger to Australia. While she was born in the UK, she spent her early childhood years in Nigeria in West Africa before her family moved again, this time to Sydney in Australia, while she was still a teenager.

She began acting a few years later and trained in the city of Melbourne at the Victorian College of the Arts. Her first major breakthrough was on song-running Aussie soap Home and Away, when she played a member of a New Zealand family that had relocated to the show's Summer Bay.

"I think it's valuable and vital to see cultures and experiences other than our own in story and on screen and I'm thrilled I get to be a part of that," she said at the time.

Return to Paradise's strongest connection to the rest of the hit franchise comes through Ardal O'Hanlon, who played Jack Mooney on parent show Death In Paradise.

After Anna's character, Mackenzie Clarke, is accused of evidence tampering Mooney sends her off to Australia, where she forms a reluctant crime-solving partnership with local forensic pathologist Glenn Strong, who happens to be the fiancé she jilted at the altar.

As the show returns, we're promised an intensification of the love triangle that was one of the key subplots of series one along with "even more perplexing cases" for the sleuths to solve.

Return to Paradise season two kicks off tonight (Friday, October 31) at 8pm on BBC One.