Florence Pugh makes Bafta Rising Star shortlist alongside Daniel Kaluuya and Tessa Thompson
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Actress Florence Pugh has been nominated for a Bafta a year after the Standard picked her out as one to watch.
The Briton, 22, took home the breakthrough prize at our film awards in December 2016 for her performance as a Victorian teenage bride in Lady Macbeth.
She is now one of five stars shortlisted for the EE Rising Star Award and is about to start work on the BBC’s adaptation of John Le Carré’s novel The Little Drummer Girl.
She said: “The journey to get to this rewarding moment has been exhilarating, and so to feel recognition for doing something I love and the hard work many have put in feels very touching.”
Also in contention for the award, which has been won by Tom Hardy, Kristen Stewart and John Boyega, are American Tessa Thompson, 34, who starred as Valkyrie in Thor: Ragnarok, and Londoners Daniel Kaluuya and Josh O’Connor.
Kaluuya, 28, who starred in the Oscar-tipped horror film Get Out, said he was honoured to be nominated and could not “wait to celebrate it in my home city”.
O’Connor, 27, made his name in God’s Own Country, hailed by one critic as “a Yorkshire Brokeback Mountain”.
He said: “I don’t think any of us working on the Yorkshire Moors filming this intimate story expected the incredible journey it has been on in the past year.”
The shortlist, open to the public vote, is completed by New Yorker Timothée Chalamet, 22, who starred in Call Me By Your Name, which also explores a gay romance.
The winner will be announced at the Bafta Film Awards on February 18. The TV awards will be held later this year.
Voting is open to the public at ee.co.uk/bafta
