'What the hell?' Aled Jones' daughter Emilia admits dad's surprise over BAFTA nomination
express.co.ukBAFTA award following her performance in the film CODA.The actress portrayed lead character Ruby Rossi in the film, and is now in the running for the Best Actress award.
Emilia, 19, described how “supportive” her parents have been of her career.The star is the daughter of Welsh singer Aled Jones, 51, and his wife Claire Fossett.The actress told the PA that she was actually asleep during the live announcement on Thursday because “never in a million years” did she think she would be considered “against such talented nominees”.Emily went on to reveal that her father Aled, who is probably best known for singing The Snowman’s Walking in the Air, has been “so supportive” of her career.“My dad text my mum, ‘what the hell, she's done it’,” she explained. “They're so supportive and they've sacrificed a lot for me to do this so I'm very grateful to have them.”The critically-acclaimed film CODA follows Ruby (Emilia), the only hearing person in a deaf family who dreams of going to Berklee College of Music.Emilia is up against a number of high-profile actresses' in her category, including global popstar Lady Gaga, The Thick of It’s Joanna Scanlan and Marvel’s Tessa Thompson.Discussing her breakout role, Emilia said: “I'm just so grateful that people loved CODA because I did work so hard.“I was 17 when we shot so I had a big, big workload for 17, so it's nice people are being so lovely."She added: “I trained for nine months with American Sign Language and had singing lessons too because I loved singing, but I'd never had a singing lesson before, but I also had to learn how to fish."So I'd wake up at 3am every morning for two weeks and we'd go out three miles at sea and catch fish for hours and hours, and the Massachusetts accent, I.
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