Mary Hussain: Last News

BAFTAs, delighting everyone after scooping the Best Actress in a Leading Role prize. The Larkins star took home the award for her acclaimed performance in After Love on Sunday (March 13), beating the likes of Lady Gaga and Tessa Thompson. However, it turns out her heartwarming speech really was "from the heart", as the star revealed exclusively to Digital Spy on the red carpet beforehand that she had not prepared anything to say.

BAFTA win tonight – the same award that Lady Gaga was the favourite to win.The Welsh actress and screenwriter who is best-known for her roles in The Thick of It, Getting On, Puppy Love, and No Offence, won the Best Leading Actress gong at the awards ceremony.The 60-year-old portrayed Mary Hussain in After Love, a widow who discovers her late husband's secret family.After her incredible win, we caught up with the star on the red carpet and asked her how she was feeling after nabbing the award and pipping Lady Gaga to the post, to which she responded with: "To be perfectly honest I feel shaky."Life is yet to catch up with me, I’m a little behind the beat."Joanna, who has been nominated at BAFTA on three separate occasions opened up to us about how it felt to finally win an award.Breaking down and crying, the emotional actress said: "To be honoured by BAFTA in film for a Leading Actress is the highest accolade I could ever aspire to. "It makes me think of all of those who have been before me and those I work with every day and how much I feel the honour of being an actor.

Leo Barraclough Senior International CorrespondentSales agent Le Bureau Films is set to launch sales at the Cannes Virtual Market on British writer and director Aleem Khan’s “Afterlove.” Variety has been given an exclusive image of the film, which is one of only five selected to receive the Cannes Critics’ Week Label. “Afterlove,” set in the port town of Dover in the South-East of England, centers on Mary Hussain, who suddenly finds herself a widow following the unexpected death of her husband.