Sex Education's Emma Mackey wins BAFTA Rising Star Award

On receiving the award she said, "I didn't prepare anything! Thank you BAFTA, thank you EE, thank you to everyone who voted."

She added that she was "so proud to be nominated alongside" the other contenders for the award and concluded that winning was "really special".

Mackey rose to prominence for her role as Maeve Wiley in Sex Education, while she has recently starred in a number of films including both Emily and the Agatha Christie adaptation Death on the Nile.

She will shortly appear in the hotly-anticipated Barbie movie and will also reprise her role as Maeve in the fourth season of Sex Education, although she previously told RadioTimes.com that she wouldn't be in the new run "as consistently".

The nominees for the Rising Star Award were chosen by a panel that included actors Hayley Atwell, Joe Cole, and Jason Flemyng as well as a host of casting directors, producers, and industry experts – before the public voted Mackey the eventual winner.

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Recent winners of the Award have included Micheal Ward, Bukky Bukray, and Lashana Lynch – the latter of whom presented Mackey with this year's trophy – while other past recipients include huge stars such as Daniel Kaluuya, Tom Hardy and Kristen Stewart.

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