Talented Teesside actress Sally Messham will soon be gracing TV screens across the UK after landing a leading role in a new drama series.
Sally, of Norton, can look forward to a glittering career on stage and screen as she prepares to graduate from one of the world’s most famous drama schools in July this year.
The 20-year-old was one of just 14 girls to secure a place at London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), from a total of 5,000 applicants, in 2012.
At the time, Sally was also one of five girls to be offered a place at the Drama Centre, out of 3,000 applicants, but chose RADA.
RADA is known across the world as one of the top performing arts training centres, with previous students including Anthony Hopkins, Ralph Fiennes, Alan Rickman and Kenneth Brannagh.
And now, as she heads toward graduation, Sally has landed her first TV role in three-part ITV crime drama “with a supernatural twist” Midwinter of the Spirit, written by author Phil Rickman.
Filming was due to start in Manchester, and on location in Hereford, this week and is expected to take six weeks.
Sally, whose parents Paul and Kay and sister Lucy, 18, still live in Norton, will play the part of Jane Watkins, daughter of the central character, played by The Bletchley Circle actress Anna Maxwell Martin.
Sally’s mum Kay, 47, said: “She’s done three years at RADA and graduates at the beginning of July. She’s managed to land one of the top agents in London and now to get this part is fantastic. She had to have special permission from RADA to go ahead with it. We’re very proud of her. She works very hard.”
Also appearing in the series will be a number of well-known faces including Benidorm and Downton Abbey’s Siobhan Finneran and Shameless star David Threlfall.
Sally is a former student of the Stagecoach Theatre School in Yarm, and attended the Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College in Darlington.
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