Normal People nominated for seven BAFTA TV Awards
Updated / Wednesday, 28 Apr 2021
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Normal People has received seven BAFTA TV nominations
Normal People has received seven nominations at this year s BAFTA TV Awards, including best mini-series, while Daisy Edgar-Jones and Paul Mescal have both been recognised in the leading actor categories.
22-year-old Edgar-Jones, who played Marianne in the 12-part adaptation of Sally Rooney s acclaimed novel, which was directed by Oscar-nominated film-maker Lenny Abrahamson and English director Hettie Macdonald, is up against Billie Piper, Hayley Squires, Jodie Comer, Letitia Wright and Michaela Coel in the prestigious best actress category.
Mescal, who played Connell in the popular show, which aired on both the BBC and RTÉ One, is nominated in the coveted leading actor category.
Paul Mescal and Normal People stars bag seven BAFTA nominations
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in a London high-rise housing project, who gradually become aware that they are
homosexual. But a funny thing happens: the most interesting scenes involve the
characters around them, who all but steal the movie. The boys lives contain
few surprises (it is clear from the start what the one big surprise is going to
be), but from the other characters there is one astonishment after another.
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Actor Helen McCrory. ‘I liked her immediately’, writes Lawrence Jackson. Photograph: Jeff Spicer/Getty Images
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In 2002, I had the luck to direct Helen McCrory (Obituary, 18 April) in a BBC Radio 4 Classic Serial of The Charterhouse of Parma. She was every bit as talented, funny, raucous and generous as everyone says, and more.
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