She's come a long way since Tracy Beaker...: How Mia McKenna-Bruce, 26, has sealed the BAFTAs 'Rising Star' after returning to work just weeks after horror birth of her daughter - but says juggling mo

She dreamed of stardom from the age of five after becoming obsessed with Shirley Temple. Mia McKenna-Bruce poses with the EE Rising Star Award at the 2024 EE BAFTA Film Awards last night Tom Leach and Mia with their 'beautiful little boy' Leo, born last summer TV star: The actress then played Tee Taylor on the CBBC show Tracy Beaker and its spin-off The Dumping Ground for over 50 episodes while at school Mia admits she was obsessed with Shirley Temple Mia McKenna-Bruce with her parents Wayne and Angela on the red carpet at the Baftas last night after her Rising Star win Mia began ballet at the age of two and knew she wanted to be a star aged five Mia McKenna-Bruce in Eastenders as the disabled daughter of Jack Branning, Penny, when she was 11 Mia as Tara with Badger in How to Have Sex, which has won her her first Bafta Mia Mary in the Netflix adaptation of Jane Austen’s Persuasion with Dakota Johnson Her comments on stage last night were a nod to how the couple have had an extraordinary and at times, very tough six months, after their 'baby cub' Leo entered the world. Bubbly Mia has won fans from her appearance at the Baftas last night Mia's fiance Tom shares an image from the Baftas red carpet The couple then partied after the big win Tom and Mia on holiday before they had their first child Celebrating her Cannes win with How to Have Sex director Molly Manning Walker She went on to dance in the West End production of Billy Elliot the Musical, then scored a long-running supporting role in The Story of Tracy Beaker, the CBBC adaptation of the hugely popular Jacqueline Wilson novels. Mia McKenna-Bruce says she has been living the dream after wanting to be an actor since she was little The couple have been together for several years and became parents in August Mia in the coming of age movie How To Have Sex Mia McKenna-Bruce in 2009's The Fourth Kind starring Milla Jovovich Most recently Mia has gone on to star in Netflix's adaptation of Jane Austin's Persuasion alongside A-listers like Dakota Johnson, Richard E. Grant and Henry Golding. Mia was no doubt in the mood to party after her big win, which was the result of a public vote Actress: Since leaving Tracy Beaker, she has also appeared in the BBC iPlayer series Get Even, and the Netflix film Persuasion Mia has hinted that if she is looking to breakthrough in Hollywood, she would move her young family with her.