Talented teenager Holly Scourfield will miss the moment when the winner of her BAFTA-nominated film is announced because she will be under another stage spotlight.

The pupil at Bradford's Stage 84 is starring in The Inland Sea in the East End of London where she plays the character of a ghost called Bliss.

And her work commitments mean she cannot attend the BAFTA ceremony on Sunday to see if her lead role in When I Was 12 helps secure it a glittering trophy.

Speaking from the family home in Wrose, her mum June said Holly was disappointed not to go to the award ceremony at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane.

"She is gutted," June said. "But once you have committed to something you cannot just turn round and say sorry you won't be there. It is just one of those things."

When I Was 12, in which Holly plays a youngster who was mentally abused by her mother, is up against three other productions in the single-film category, including My Beautiful Son starring Julie Walters.

But Holly will be finished in time to join the rest of the cast for the dazzling awards party in the Grosvenor House Hotel to celebrate the film's achievement.

Valerie Jackson, principal of Stage 84, said: "It is wonderful because we have a girl in the East End and a girl in the West End with Emma Williams as Truly Scrump-tious in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang."