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A DREAM has come true for schoolgirl Holly Boyd after winning a part in a film starring Jeremy Irons.
Fifteen-year-old Holly, of Castle Camps, near Haverhill, a pupil at St Mary’s School, beat girls from all over the country to get the part at her first professional audition.
She will play one of Jeremy’s three children in the film, The Fourth Angel.
“I get shot and killed early on, and the story is about how he avenges my killers,” said Holly.
“I have got quite a bit of acting, but not so many lines. When I attended the read-through and met the cast, I thought Jeremy Irons was a really good actor. He was very friendly.”
Holly begins seven days of filming in London and Kent tomorrow, and will have to have a chaperone.
Her sister Alice, 19, went with her to the read-through, but Holly said: “Everyone wants to come with me — mum, dad and my grandmother, so they can meet all the actors.”
Holly is a member of the Whizz Kids Theatre Company and Bodyworks in Cambridge, as well as a performer with amateur societies in Saffron Walden and Haverhill.
“I’ve been interested in acting ever since I can remember,” she said. “I used to be really envious of all the actors on television, and I just want to be in the performing world.”
Next month she will be singing a Marie Lloyd song and also dancing, along with her mother Anne, in Saffron Walden Music Hall Society’s show, The Good Old Bad Old Days. Performances are at the Town Hall from October 3 to 7. Seats are available from the Tourist Information Centre from September 20.
(Picture caption: Film role... for Holly Boyd, who will be acting alongside Jeremy Irons, in The Fourth Angel.)