A BIG screen career could be on the cards for a nine-year-old acting prodigy from Burbage after she made her film debut this week.

Lauren Angel, of Webbs Way, has been rubbing shoulders with actors such as Four Weddings and a Funeral's John Hannah, Sherlock's Amanda Abbington and singer Ronan Keating after appearing in British War drama, Another Mother's Son.

And last week, Lauren, known as Lolly by her closest friends and family, joined her fellow stars on the red carpet at Leicester Square for the world premiere – which was quite a treat.

"I love to act and to become different people as they are all on a different adventure," said the Burbage Primary School pupil.

"I have worked for Bill Kenwright CBE, the film’s producer, on other productions and it was great to finally meet him and talk about the roles I have had.

"All the cast spent time talking to me and I was treated just like another A-lister. Apart from seeing myself on the big screen, my highlight was walking down the blue red carpet, as the photographers lights flashed."

The film, is based on a true story about a Jersey woman who takes in an escaped young Russian war prisoner, hiding him from the German forces.

Lauren plays the part of a young girl who is captured by the Germans, who is then thrown onto an overcrowded cattle cart on a steam train to a German concentration camp.

"Even though the scene was pretty gruesome and emotional, it was also very exciting to film," said Lauren, who shot for the film near Shepton Mallet in Somerset.

"I had been told before I got on set that there would be a dead body in front of me and the floor would be mucky.

"It was also 11pm and the rain was falling quite hard, this added to the intensity of the scene. Make-up and wardrobe had made it look like I really had been locked in a small space on the train for days on end without food and water."

At the age of seven, Lauren trained with Stagecoach Theatre Arts and was taken on by an agent, after being awarded with several Distinction grades in her London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art examinations.

She now trains every Saturday from 9am-6pm in London with Italia Conti, the world’s oldest theatre arts training school.

Lauren made her TV debut in the Sky One Drama series, Delicious, featuring alongside Dawn French and she has also toured with former X-Factor winner Joe McElderry in the West End production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat.

"I hope to go to a full time theatre arts college to study acting when I am older but for now I want to do as much as I can in theatre, TV or film," said Lauren.

The film is out on Mother's Day.