{"id":304692,"date":"2026-02-22T17:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T17:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/304692\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T17:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T17:06:10","slug":"mia-mckenna-bruce-shimmers-in-a-black-and-silver-sequined-evening-gown-at-the-2026-baftas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/304692\/","title":{"rendered":"Mia McKenna-Bruce Shimmers in a Black and Silver Sequined Evening Gown at the 2026 BAFTAs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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English actress Mia McKenna-Bruce returned to the British Academy Film Awards on Sunday evening as a presenter. Fresh off her star turn in Netflix\u2019s Agatha Christie and the Seven Dials<\/a>, McKenna-Bruce looked lovely in a floor-length evening gown with a shimmering, sequined texture and a cascading metallic embellishment while arriving at London\u2019s Royal Festival Hall.<\/p>\n

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McKenna-Bruce arrives at the 2026 BAFTAs in London.<\/p>\n

McKenna-Bruce won the BAFTA Rising Star award in 2024 for her performance in How to Have Sex, a coming-of-age drama about female adolescence, consent, and peer pressure. Other nominees that year included fellow nominees Phoebe Dynevor, Ayo Edebiri, Jacob Elordi, and Sophie Wilde. The Rising Star award is the only BAFTA category voted for by the public. \u201cA lot of what we wanted to do with the film is show that the pressure was coming from everywhere,\u201d McKenna-Bruce said in 2024<\/a>. \u201cEveryone\u2019s got a role to play in this. \u201cThe main takeaway is just to be a kind person and realize the impact that your actions have on others. Like, it\u2019s huge. It can stay with people for life and it can change the course of someone\u2019s life.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A closeup of McKenna-Bruce\u2019s diamond drop earrings.<\/p>\n

McKenna-Bruce was actually in the middle of the Molly Manning Walker-directed film when she auditioned for Agatha Christie and the Seven Dials. In the miniseries adaptation of the murder mystery novel, McKenna-Bruce plays Lady Eileen \u201cBundle\u201d Brent, a spirited young woman who turns into a gumshoe detective when someone close to her turns up dead.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really love her heart and ability to connect with people,\u201d McKenna-Bruce told Town & Country<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s why I love acting, because I love people. My favorite thing is to sit and people watch. I just find humans fascinating. Bundle has a really glorious way of, even though she\u2019s really strong in her pursuit [of the truth], she\u2019s never putting other people down. She\u2019s always encouraging people to be a part of it with her. That\u2019s something that I\u2019d love to hold onto going forward\u2014just holding onto that love of people and wanting to bring people on journeys with me.\u201d<\/p>\n

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McKenna-Bruce in Carolina Herrera with Cartier jewelery while accepting the Rising Star award in 2024.<\/p>\n

Up next for McKenna-Bruce is BritBox\u2019s The Lady<\/a>, a true crime story and romp through 1980s British society<\/a>. She\u2019ll play Jane Andrews, a personal dresser for the then-Duchess of York<\/a> who was later charged with the murder of her boyfriend.<\/p>\n

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Rachel King (she\/her) is a news writer at\u00a0Town & Country. Before joining\u00a0T&C, she spent nearly a decade as an editor at\u00a0Fortune. Her work covering travel and lifestyle has appeared in\u00a0Forbes,\u00a0Observer,\u00a0Robb Report, Cruise Critic, and\u00a0Cool Hunting, among others. Originally from San Francisco, she lives in New York with her wife, their daughter, and a precocious labradoodle. Follow her on Instagram at\u00a0@rk.passport<\/a>.<\/p>\n