Janey Godley’s daughter Ashley Storrie has won the public vote at the Bafta Scotland awards for her performance in Dinosaur. She also won the screenwriter award with co-writer Matilda Curtis for the BBC TV series.
The television awards went to David Tennant for his role in There She Goes and Doon Mackichan for her return to Two Doors Down.
Sports broadcaster Hazel Irvine was also honoured with the award for outstanding contribution to television.At the ceremony in Glasgow, Storrie admitted she had been sneaking into the Bafta Scotland awards with her mum, who died earlier this month, since she was 15.
“We snuck in to our first Baftas,” Storrie said. “We went to the after party and a lady came up and said who are you? My ma lied and said Elaine C Smith, and she just went ‘oh ok’.
Ashley Storrie wins Bafta
As she received the screenwriter award with Curtis, Storrie said: “Thank you Matilda for writing the pilot, and then I got cast in it, and then I became a telly writer. I was making videos on Facebook being Harry Potter,” she added. “And now I’ve got a Bafta.”
Curtis, who devised the show based on autistic palaeontologist Nina, said: “Thank you to everyone who saw yourself in Nina – this is for you, and thank you Ashley for being the most beautiful, incredible Nina I could ever have asked forThe ceremony was the first time Richard Gadd had been at a public event in Scotland since his show Baby Reindeer won six Emmys.
The woman who inspired the stalker character in Baby Reindeer is currently pursuing a defamation lawsuit against Netflix, claiming the streaming giant told “brutal lies” about her to more than 50 million viewers around the world.
Gadd was also in the running for the audience award, along with David Tennant and Dr Who’s Ncuti Gatwa, Jack Lowden of Slow Horses and Abby Cook of Blue Peter.
Out of Darkness won three awards – best feature film and best film actor and actress for Kit Young and Safia Oakley-Green.
In the factual categories, Not Your Average Family received the series award and Liar: The Fake Grooming Scandal won the prize for a single documentaryCommentator Andrew Cotter presented Hazel Irvine with the outstanding contribution to television, given in recognition of an exceptional standard of work across a long career.
Irvine, who began her career with STV’s Scotsport in 1987, has been a trailblazer for women in sports journalism for more than 30 years including 18 winter and summer Olympics as well as four world cup finals, Wimbledon and the London Marathon.
Producer, writer and former Edinburgh film festival director Lynda Myles was presented with the outstanding contribution to film award.
She was honoured during the ceremony with a highlights event held earlier in the year, celebrating her life and work over 60 years.
Source: BBC
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