A seven-year-old girl from Bexleyheath is delighted to have made her TV debut in the BBC One drama, Call the Midwife.
Emily Webb played the returning character of Susan Mullocks on the show's Christmas episode, a girl who suffered the impacts of thalidomide.
In previous episodes, the character had been a baby but Emily had the opportunity to play the girl a few years on as the series revisited her storyline.
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Emily joined an agency, JLH Arts Agency, and had been with them for a couple of months when she received the audition for this part.
Her mum, Michelle Webb, said there was a lot of secrecy and anticipation in the run-up to the episode airing because they could not give away that the character of Susan would be returning for the Christmas episode.
They were relieved in December when promos started airing and the secret was out.
She explained that in order to get Emily to look like the character, her arms were hidden underneath her costume and she then had prosthetic limbs fitted.
Michelle said: "She absolutely loved it, really loved it.
"They are so lovely there.
"I think maybe because it's a show around children, there are always children on set.
"She loved it.
"They were long days for her, obviously in accordance with child labour laws.
"Sometimes she was getting home at midnight and then getting ready to go back on set the next day but she never complained.
"It was hard work for her as well because the way her costume was, she was kind of all strapped up in a straight jacket kind of thing because they fitted prosthetic limbs to her.
"So, it was difficult for her because in costume she didn't have as much freedom as the other kids playing and things like that.
"She was kind of all bound up and there wasn't much they could do because it took them so long to get her looking like the character that she couldn't pull it all off for a run around with the kids."
When asked if any actors in particular stood out to Emily, she added: "Her nan is a huge fan and Stephen McGann, so he was a favourite.
"And, Liz White played her mum and she was fantastic, Emily absolutely loved her from the second she saw her.
"She kept saying 'that's my TV mum!' but everyone there is so kind and lovely to the kids.
"They treat them like kings and queens, they are fawned over."
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