Kate Winslet Wins Best Leading Actress – BAFTA TV Awards
deadline.comKate Winslet has won the coveted Leading Actress gong at the BAFTA TV Awards for her performance in Channel 4’s I Am Ruth. The Mare of Easttown star has won three BAFTA Film Awards during a stellar career but this is her first TV win.
Winslet beat off competition in a crowded category from I Hate Suzie Too’s Billie Piper, Imelda Staunton’s Queen Elizabeth II in The Crown, Kate Winslet for I Am Ruth, Maxine Peake (Anne), Vicky McClure (Without Sin) and Happy Valley lead Sarah Lancashire.
Airing as the latest in the Channel 4 I Am… strand, the heartwrenching single drama, which also won Best Single Drama at tonight’s awards, explored a relationship between a mother and teenage daughter experiencing severe mental health issues in the social media age.
Winslet used her acceptance speech to call for “the people in power to criminalize harmful content.” “We don’t want it and we want our children back,” she said. “We don’t want to lie awake terrified for our children’s mental health.
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