[FULLY BOOKED]: Rosie Molloy Gives Up Everything: In-Person screening and Q&A

Everyman Borough Yards, 3 Dirty Ln, London SE1 9PA

WFTV members are invited to a screening of Sky Original new series Rosie Molloy Gives Up Everything, followed by a Q&A with lead actor Sheridan Smith, writer and producer Susan Nickson and actors Pauline McLynn, Leah Macrae and Adelle Leonce, chaired by film and TV critic and broadcaster Rhianna Dhillon.

Manchester girl, Rosie Molloy is addicted to everything - smoking, alcohol, Terry’s Chocolate Oranges, Xanax, Adderall, caffeine... the list goes on. After an embarrassing incident at her brother Joey’s wedding Rosie wakes up in hospital and decides to change her life by ‘Giving Up Everything’. But as Rosie juggles her father Conall’s illness, with a dawning realisation that her addictions are destroying her friendships, family and work life, she also starts to question that by giving up everything - is she also giving up the very thing that makes her Rosie?

Event Schedule:

18:30: Members arrivals and registration

19:00: Screening starts

20:00 – 21:00: Q&A chaired by Rhianna Dhillon

RSVP Deadline: Monday 5 December, 4pm

Sheridan Smith is an award-winning actress who has made her mark on the entertainment industry as one of Britain’s most versatile actors. After making her TV debut in 1999 playing the eccentric character ‘Matilda’ in ITV’s comedy series Dark Ages, she has taken on memorable roles across television, film, and theatre, with her most recent credits including The Railway Children Return, No Return, The Teacher, Hansel & Gretel: After Ever After, and Jack and the Beanstalk: After Ever After.

Smith is well-known for her comedy performances in The Royle Family, Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, Grownups, Gavin and Stacey, and many more. As a drama actress, Smith won a BAFTA Award for her performance in the 2012 series Mrs Biggs. She was also nominated for a BAFTA in two consecutive years for her performances as Cilla Black in the series Cilla and for her leading role in The C Word. One of her crowning moments was being named Best Actress at the 2013 BAFTA TV Awards and being nominated for an International EMMY for her portrayal of ‘Charmaine Biggs’. She also won the National TV Award for her highly acclaimed portrayal of British icon Cilla Black in ITV’s  3-part drama Cilla and was nominated for her second BAFTA and International EMMY.

Susan Nickson is a television writer and producer. She is best known for long-running original sitcom Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, which she show-ran, scripted edited and wrote a number of episodes for; and her second original sitcom, Grownups. Over the years, Nickson has created the series Merry Widows, worked as a writer on the series Birds of a Feather, and served as a script editor on the series Coming of Age. Nickson started her television career at fourteen when she won the Lloyds Bank Film Challenge for her comedy Buddha’s Legs. Following this, Channel 4 commissioned her to write a half-hour comedy Life’s A Bitch, which starred Kathy Burke and Sean Hughes. In 2004 she was nominated for the Best Writer award at the Broadcast Young Talent Awards.

Pauline McLynn is an Irish actress who most recently starred in the television adaptation of the novel Holding. She is best known for her roles as Mrs. Doyle in the Irish sitcom Father Ted, for which she received a British Comedy Award in 1996, and as Libby Crocker in comedy drama Shameless. From 2014-2015, she played Yvonne Cotton in long-running soap Eastenders. McLynn’s film credits include the 1999 film adaptation of Angela Ashes; and Gypo, for which she was nominated Best Actress at the 2005 Irish Film and Television Awards. More recently, McLynn starred as Last Night in Soho, alongside Anya Taylor-Joy and Matt Smith. In recent years, McLynn has had guest roles in Silent Witness, Inside No.9, Doctor Who.

Leah Macrae was born in Belfast and raised in South England and Glasgow, and currently stars in long-running Scottish drama, River City. She is best known for her roles in Gary: Tank Commander, Grownups, and Legit. MacRae is also well-known in Scotland for her theatre career, most notably for her performance as Maggie in multiple sold-out Scottish tours of 51 Shades Of Maggie from 2013 to 2014. As a comedy writer and performer, she has sold out performances of her debut one-woman comedy show Leah MacRae: My Big Fat Fabulous Diary. She most recently toured Scotland with her second one-woman comedy show Leah MacRae: Weighs In which debuted at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Adelle Leonce is a television and stage actress who is known for her recent roles in A Discovery of Witches, Black Mirror, and Death in Paradise. Her previous credits include long-running drama Silent Witness, Shameless, Roadkill, and Strike. On stage, Leonce performed as ‘Emilia 2’ in the West End production of Emilia, beginning in its 2018 debut at The Globe, and this year played the titular role in Anna Karenina at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield.

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