From Disney to Martian blockbuster - Naomi Scott is a shooting star

The actress is among the up-and-coming talent on Screen International’s prestigious annual list 
Talent: Naomi Scott is on Screen International’s list
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Rashid Razaq5 October 2015
The Weekender

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A church pastor’s daughter signed up by a talent agency after being spotted singing on YouTube is set to follow in the footsteps of Carey Mulligan, Eddie Redmayne and Benedict Cumberbatch after being tipped as a star of tomorrow.

Hounslow-born Naomi Scott, 22, is among the up-and-coming talent on Screen International’s prestigious annual list announced today at the British Film Institute.

Scott started out singing at her parents’ Pentecostal church in Woodford before acting in productions at the Davenant Foundation School in Loughton. She got her break on Disney show Lemonade Mouth, which led to a role in Steven Spielberg’s TV drama Terra Nova.

Now she is on the big screen in The Martian with Matt Damon, and The 33 — a drama based on the 2010 rescue of trapped Chilean miners starring Antonio Banderas.

The actress, who married MK Dons footballer Jordan Spence last year, said she was “honoured” but could not believe she had made the list.

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Speaking as she waited to board a flight to Los Angeles for a casting, she said: “You see people like Benedict Cumberbatch [listed in 2004] and Carey Mulligan [2008] and you think, ‘Wow, they must really believe in me.’ It’s like getting a stamp of approval to be placed in such prestigious company.

“But you have to remember that it’s a long process and nobody becomes a success overnight.”

Scott, who is also releasing her second album this year, still makes time for church charity work and is due to travel to Ethiopia to help impoverished children.

Other names on this year’s Screen International list include Alex Lawther, who played a young Alan Turing in The Imitation Game. The 20-year-old from Hampshire is appearing in independent film Departure and new HBO drama Virtuoso produced by Elton John.

The list features 32 actors, writers, directors and producers and was unveiled to coincide with the London Film Festival, which opens on Wednesday.

Others named as future acting stars include Londoner Osy Ikhile, 25, after he bagged roles in new movie versions of Tarzan and Othello, and Ellie Bamber, 18, who will be in Tom Ford’s film Nocturnal Animals, as well as in Pride And Prejudice And Zombies next year.

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