How real-life hardships influenced Top Boy's award-winning performances: Cast of the BAFTA sensation grew up in foster care, served time in jail and sold drugs before they found acting - as Ashley Wal

Top Boy was one of the big winners at the BAFTA TV Awards last night - and it's no wonder, given the cast's profound ability to deliver storylines that are both heartfelt and gritty with sensational performances. Ashley recently also said that Black people's stories are better told by Black creatives after starring in Netflix drama Top Boy, which was developed by a white writer. BARRY KEOGHAN As young children the Bafta winning Saltburn actor and his brother were shunted around 13 different foster homes as their heroin addict mother struggled to look after them, before being left orphaned when she died from pneumonia Earlier this year, extraordinary new details of Barry Keoghan's journey from one of Dublin's toughest estates to the Golden Globes have been revealed to MailOnline by the woman who knows him best – the aunt who raised him. In an exclusive interview at the two-bedroom council flat she shares with Barry's beloved nan Patricia, 91, Lorraine told MailOnline: 'People don't tend to leave this part of Dublin and end up in Hollywood, so Barry is someone special for sure.' 'He's got this inner turmoil, this dichotomy: 'I don't want to do this but I'm doing it because it's my life and it's the way things are.