A YOUNG Scottish actress is the star of a brand new eponymous BBC television show.
Millie Innes, 13, from Cardonald, Glasgow, has been cast in the lead role in CBBC comedy series, Millie Inbetween, which starts on Wednesday. It charts the growing pains of blended family life for the fictional Millie and her older sister Lauren after their parents split up.
Ms Innes, who has previously had roles in dramas Case Histories and Single Father, landed her own show after first impressing BBC bosses when she auditioned for a part in the Tracy Beaker spin-off series Dani's House three years ago, beating 20,000 youngsters to the role of Maisy.
Millie Inbetween, which was filmed over the summer at the River City studios in Dumbarton, looks set to make the teenager a household name, but Ms Innes is keeping both feet planted firmly on the ground.
"A few of my close friends know about the show but I don't tend to talk about it in school," she says.
"Some of my teachers suggested we should do something to celebrate, but I told them I'd prefer not to.
"People will find out about it in their own time. I don't want to be seen to make a fuss, brag or show-off. We don't make a big thing of it as a family. It's such a normal thing for me now and just like any other person going out to get a weekend job in Sainsbury's."
Ms Innes, who is in third year at Ross Hall Academy and attends the Glasgow Academy of Musical Theatre Arts, lives with her parents, Julia, 41, and Campbell, 50, and younger brother Murray, five.
By the time she was two, such was her burgeoning passion for acting and dancing that her father built a small, wooden stage in her bedroom.
While still at primary school, Ms Innes won parts in Cbeebies shows Nina and the Neurons and Me Too! before landing her breakthrough role in Single Father opposite David Tennant when she was nine.
Millie Inbetween starts on CBBC on Wednesday.
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