Wiltshire College student lands role in BBC drama

2:12pm Wednesday 5th March 2008

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MOST students don't expect to get a job straight after leaving college, particularly if acting in their chosen profession.

But a Melksham girl has landed a dream role in a BBC drama just weeks after finishing her exams.

Elizabeth Day, 18, of Craybourne Road, has been picked to star in The Things I Haven't Told You due to be broadcast on BBC3 on Monday March 17.

Miss Day only finished her course in performing arts at Wiltshire College in June but just two months later she found herself working 12-hour days on set.

The former Corsham School pupil admitted: "It was hard work, we were working between 10 and 12-hour days filming in London.

"I had to stay in a B&B but I got picked up in a Jaguar every morning and had my own trailer. It was a shock though - I couldn't get used to it at first because it's such a different kind of life to being a student."

The teenager was spotted when a casting director visited her acting group at Wiltshire College looking for people to star in E4 series Skins. She said: "I didn't get the part in Skins but she said she liked me. She introduced me to agents and I was offered a contract and then got the part in The Things I Haven't Told You."

The programme is one of 16 pilots being broadcast by the BBC with a view to one of them being made into a series. Miss Day plays Aisling Hunter, an ordinary girl who wishes she were anyone else, anywhere else.

She strikes up a friendship with the most glamorous and popular girl at school who promises to help her find out what happened to her missing mother.

But just as Aisling is getting near the truth she is run over in a bizarre car crash.

Miss Day said: "There are a lot of mysteries in the programme and all the characters tie in with each other.

"They have described it as Desperate Housewives for teenagers."

She found herself working with a few famous names including Andrew Lincoln, from This Life and Teachers, and Nathalie Lunghi, from Layer Cake.

She is now keeping her fingers crossed and hoping the programme will be so popular BBC bosses will commission a series.