 Anne Marie Duff |
Irish actress Anne Marie Duff has been named in the Best Actress BAFTA Television Awards shortlist for her role in the BBC’s mini series ‘The Virgin Queen’.
Duff faces competition from 12-time nominee Victoria Wood who has been nominated for her turn in ITV’s ‘Housewife 49’. Also named in the Best Actress category is Samantha Morton for CH4’s ‘Longford’ and ‘Jane Eyre’ actress Ruth Wilson.
This is the third consecutive nomination in the Best Actress category for Anne Marie Duff having received the nod in 2006 and 2005 for her acclaimed role in ‘Shameless’.
The BAFTA Television Awards ceremony is scheduled to take place at the London Palladium on 20 May.
Leading the shortlist is ‘Life On Mars’ which received a total of three BAFTA nods including the Best Drama, Pioneer Audience Award and Best Actor for John Simm.
Also in the Best Actor category, Simm is up against Michael Sheen for ‘Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa’ and Jim Broadbent and Andy Serkis for their performances in ‘Longford’.
‘Extras’ stars Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant compete for the Best Comedy Performance award alongside Dawn French (The Vicar of Dibley) and Liz Smith (The Royale Family).
The full list of nominees:
ACTOR
JIM BROADBENT - Longford (Channel 4)
ANDY SERKIS - Longford (Channel 4)
MICHAEL SHEEN - Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa! (BBC4)
JOHN SIMM - Life On Mars (BBC1)
ACTRESS
ANNE-MARIE DUFF - The Virgin Queen (BBC1)
SAMANTHA MORTON - Longford (Channel 4)
RUTH WILSON - Jane Eyre (BBC1)
VICTORIA WOOD - Housewife 49 (ITV1)
ENTERTAINMENT PERFORMANCE
ANT & DEC - Saturday Night Takeaway (ITV1)
STEPHEN FRY - QI (BBC2)
PAUL MERTON - Have I Got News For You (BBC1)
JONATHAN ROSS - Friday Night With Jonathan Ross (BBC1)
COMEDY PERFORMANCE
DAWN FRENCH - The Vicar Of Dibley (BBC1)
RICKY GERVAIS - Extras (BBC2)
STEPHEN MERCHANT - Extras (BBC2)
LIZ SMITH - The Royle Family: Queen Of Sheba (BBC1)
SINGLE DRAMA
HOUSEWIFE 49 - Victoria Wood, Piers Wenger, Gavin Millar, David Threlfall (ITV1/ITV Productions)
KENNETH WILLIAMS: FANTABULOSA! - Andy de Emmony, Ben Evans, Martyn Hesford (BBC4/BBC Drama)
LONGFORD - Peter Morgan, Tom Hooper, Helen Flint, Andy Harries (C4/A Granada Production for C4 in assoc. with HBO)
ROAD TO GUANTANAMO - Michael Winterbottom, Mat Whitecross (C4/Revolution Films)
DRAMA SERIES
LIFE ON MARS - Production Team (BBC1/Kudos Film & Television)
SHAMELESS - Production Team (C4/Company Pictures)
SUGAR RUSH - Production Team (C4/Shine Productions)
THE STREET - Jimmy McGovern, Sita Williams, David Blair, Ken Horn (BBC1/Granada Television Ltd)
DRAMA SERIAL
LOW WINTER SUN - Greg Brenman, Adrian Shergold, Simon Donald, Rhonda Smith (C4/Tiger Aspect Productions)
PRIME SUSPECT: THE FINAL ACT - Andrew Benson, Philip Martin, Frank Deasy, Andy Harries (ITV1/ITV Productions)
SEE NO EVIL: THE MOORS MURDERS - Lisa Gilchrist, Neil McKay, Jeff Pope, Chris Menaul (ITV1/ITV Productions)
THE VIRGIN QUEEN - Coky Giedroyc, Paula Milne, Paul Rutman (BBC1/A BBC Drama/Power co-production)
CONTINUING DRAMA
CASUALTY - The Production Team (BBC1/BBC)
CORONATION STREET - Stephen Russell, Tim O'Mara, Steve Frost, Kieran Roberts (ITV1/ITV Productions)
EASTENDERS - The Production Team (BBC1/BBC Drama Production Studios)
EMMERDALE - Keith Richardson, Kathleen Beedles, Lindsay Williams, Piotr Szkopiak (ITV1/ITV Productions)
FACTUAL SERIES
ROSS KEMP ON GANGS - Clive Tulloh, Amelia Hann, Ross Kemp (Sky One/Tiger Aspect Productions)
STEPHEN FRY - THE SECRET LIFE OF A MANIC DEPRESSIVE - Production Team (BBC2/IWC Media, part of the RDF Media Group)
TRIBE - James Smith, Steve Robinson, Bruce Parry, Sam Organ (BBC2/BBC)
WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? - Alex Graham, Lucy Carter (BBC2/Wall To Wall)
SPECIALIST FACTUAL*
MUNICH: MOSSAD'S REVENGE - Anthony Geffen, Tom Whitter, Peter Miller, Calum Walker (C4/Atlantic Productions Ltd)
NUREMBERG: GOERING'S LAST STAND - Peter Nicholson, Simon Berthon, Dan Korn, Piers Vellacott (C4/3BM Television)
PLANET EARTH - Alistair Fothergill, Mark Linfield (BBC1/BBC)
SIMON SCHAMA'S POWER OF ART - Clare Beavan, Simon Schama, Basil Comely, Mark Harrison (BBC2/BBC London Arts)
SINGLE DOCUMENTARY**
BREAKING UP WITH THE JONESES - Ursula Macfarlane, Saskia Wilson, Dave Nath, Gregor Lyon (C4/Betty TV)
EVICTED - Brian Woods, Deborah Shipley, Jeremy Wales, Katy Sheppard (BBC1/True Vision)
9/11: THE FALLING MAN - Henry Singer, John Smithson, Sue Bourne, Julian Ware (C4/Darlow Smithson Productions)
RAIN IN MY HEART - Paul Watson (BBC2/BBC)
FEATURES
THE APPRENTICE - Dan Adamson, Sanjay Singhal, Martyn Smith, Sir Alan Sugar (BBC2/TalkbackThames/Mark Burnett Productions)
THE CHOIR - Jamie Isaacs, Ludo Graham, Drew Hill, Sam Grace (BBC2/Twenty Twenty)
DRAGONS' DEN - Helen Bullough, Dominic Bird, Paul Mackay (BBC2/BBC Entertainment)
THE F WORD - Ben Adler, Jon Swain, Pat Llewellyn, Eileen Herlihy (C4/Optomen Television)
SPORT
THE BOAT RACE - John Watts, Tony Pastor, John McKenna, Phil Heslop (ITV1/ITV Sport)
F1: HUNGARIAN GRAND PRIX - JENSON BUTTON'S FIRST WIN - Neil Duncanson, Gerard Lane (ITV1/North One Television)
CRICKET ON FIVE - Jeff Foulser, Gary Franses, Dylan Jane, Diana Keen (Five/Sunset and Vine Productions)
WINTER OLYMPICS - BBC Sport Production Team (BBC2/BBC Sport)
NEWS COVERAGE
BBC TEN O'CLOCK NEWS - TERRORISM PLOT AT HEATHROW - BBC Ten O'Clock News Team (BBC1/BBC News)
CHANNEL 4 NEWS - NEWS FROM IRAN - Jon Snow, Deborah Rayner, Ben Monro-Davies, Martin Collett (C4/ITN)
GRANADA REPORTS: MORECAMBE BAY - Production Team (ITV/Granada)
ITV EVENING NEWS - THE ISRAEL/LEBANON CRISIS - Julian Manyon, Mark Austin, Geoff Hill, Rob Bowles (ITV1/ITN)
INTERACTIVITY
DISPATCHES - WAR TORN: STORIES OF SEPARATION - David Modell, Cassian Harrison, Oliver Doward (Channel4.com/Dispatches)
MELTDOWN AND THE BIG CLIMATE CHANGE EXPERIMENT - Frances McNamara, Jonathan Renouf, Paul Bradshaw, Tolu Aina (Supporting BBC4)
THE SECRET POLICEMAN'S BALL - Clive Tulloh, Lisle Turner, Mike Agnew, Adil Abrar (C4/Tiger Aspect Productions)
TERRY PRATCHETT'S HOGFATHER - Aidan Conway, Giles Pooley, Rod Brown, Ian Sharples (Sky One Networked Media)
INTERNATIONAL
ENTOURAGE - Doug Ellin, Mark Wahlberg, Steve Levinson (ITV2/HBO)
HOUSE - David Shore (Five/Heal and Toe Films/Shore Z Productions/Bad Hat Harry Productions in assoc with NBC Universal Television Studio)
LOST - JJ Abrams, Carlton Cuse, Damon Lindelof, Jack Bender (Sky One/Buena Vista International Television)
MY NAME IS EARL - Greg Garcia, Marc Buckland, Bobby Bowman (C4/Twentieth Century Fox)
ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMME***
DANCING ON ICE - Will Smith, Katie Rawcliffe, Jayne Torville, Christopher Dean (ITV1/ITV Productions)
DERREN BROWN: THE HEIST - Derren Brown, Simon Mills, Andrew O'Connor, Anthony Owen (C4/Objective Productions)
HOW DO YOU SOLVE A PROBLEM LIKE MARIA? - Production Team (BBC1/BBC Entertainment)
THE X FACTOR - Richard Holloway, Claire Horton, Andrew Llinares, Siobhan Greene (ITV1/TalkbackThames in association with SYCO TV)
SITUATION COMEDY
GREEN WING - Victoria Pile, Dominic Brigstocke, Tristram Shapeero, Rob Harley (C4/TalkbackThames)
THE IT CROWD - Ash Atalla, Graham Linehan, Derrin Schlesinger, Lorraine Heggessey (C4/TalkbackThames)
PULLING - Sharon Horgan, Dennis Kelly, Phil Bowker, Tristram Shapeero (BBC3/Silver River)
THE ROYLE FAMILY: QUEEN OF SHEBA - Caroline Aherne, Craig Cash, John Rushton, Phil Mealey (BBC1/Granada Productions)
COMEDY PROGRAMME
THE CATHERINE TATE SHOW - Gordon Anderson, Aschlin Ditta, Geoffrey Perkins, Catherine Tate (BBC2/Tiger Aspect Productions)
LITTLE BRITAIN ABROAD - Matt Lucas, David Walliams, Matt Lipsey, Geoff Posner (BBC1/BBC Comedy)
LITTLE MISS JOCELYN - Gary Reich, Jemma Rogers, Gareth Carrivick, Jocelyn Jee Esien (BBC3/Brown Eyed Boy Productions)
THAT MITCHELL & WEBB LOOK - David Kerr, Gareth Edwards, Robert Webb, David Mitchell (BBC2/BBC Comedy)
PIONEER AUDIENCE AWARD
LIFE ON MARS
THE ROYLE FAMILY: QUEEN OF SHEBA
DRAGONS' DEN
THE VICAR OF DIBLEY CHRISTMAS SPECIAL
PLANET EARTH
CELEBRITY BIG BROTHER
