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<\/p>\nRobert Aramayo has been hailed an inspiration by people in his home city of Hull following the actor’s Bafta success.<\/p>\n
As well as being named best actor for his portrayal of John Davidson in the film I Swear, Aramayo also received the Rising Star award.<\/p>\n
The actor, who studied performing arts at Wyke College in the city and attended Hull Truck Theatre, broke down in tears on stage and said afterwards: “It totally blows my mind.”<\/p>\n
Laura Bulless, from the college, said: “It felt like the whole of Hull was behind him to get that newcomer award and then to get leading actor, it’s just absolutely phenomenal.”<\/p>\n
Bulless added: “It’s an amazing thing to happen for a lad from Hull and for our students to see.<\/p>\n
“That is just something they can take with them now on whatever they are going to do next.”<\/p>\n
In an interview with BBC Radio Humberside in October, Aramayo spoke about being “lucky enough” to be involved with Hull Truck Theatre during his early career.<\/p>\n
Commenting on his achievement, the theatre’s artistic director, Mark Babych, described it as a “jump up and down” moment.<\/p>\n
“What an incredible result,” he said.<\/p>\n
However, he said he was not surprised as “Rob is a phenomenal actor”, adding the recognition was also great for “theatres like ours” and the role they play in encouraging young talent.<\/p>\n
“We are just incredibly proud of Rob, who is clearly an enormous inspiration to people,” he added.<\/p>\n
Babych said Aramayo had also demonstrated “a great deal of authenticity, respectfulness and insightfulness” in tackling the role.<\/p>\n
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Robert Aramayo walks to the stage to receive the leading actor award [Getty Images]<\/p>\n
Tourette’s syndrome is an incurable condition<\/a> that causes someone to make sudden, repetitive sounds or movements, known as tics.<\/p>\n I Swear follows Davidson’s struggle growing up with Tourette’s in 1980s Scotland.<\/p>\n Davidson was made an MBE in 2019 for his efforts to increase understanding of the condition and help families deal with it.<\/p>\n Aramayo described Davidson as “the most remarkable man I have ever met”.<\/p>\n One of the film’s producers, Georgia Bayliff, said she was also “incredibly proud” of Aramayo, and how hard he had worked on the role.<\/p>\n “There were so many heavyweights in that category – new and old – but we knew what the performance was like seeing him every day on set,” she said.<\/p>\n “It was wonderful our peers recognised that.”<\/p>\n She also praised everyone involved in the production, adding its success was due to it being “a personal story that could resonate on a global scale”.<\/p>\n In a 2011 interview with the BBC<\/a>, Aramayo talked about his pride in Hull after gaining a place at the renowned Juilliard drama school in New York.<\/p>\n He said people in the city had shown him tremendous support and encouragement and being the only English student at Juilliard at the time “made me want to achieve more”.<\/p>\n Aramayo also praised Hull Truck Theatre and the support he received from his “brilliant mentor” Lee Green.<\/p>\n “I owe a lot to Hull Truck,” he added.<\/p>\n Listen to highlights from Hull and East Yorkshire on BBC Sounds<\/a>, watch the latest episode of Look North<\/a> or tell us about a story you think we should be covering here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Download the BBC News app from the App Store<\/a> for iPhone and iPad or Google Play<\/a> for Android devices<\/p>\n More on this storyRelated internet links<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robert Aramayo has been hailed an inspiration by people in his home city of Hull following the actor’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,154753,85,46,67941,154754,154756,3120,154755],"class_list":["post-308098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-hull-truck-theatre","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-john-davidson","tag-leading-actor","tag-phenomenal-actor","tag-robert-aramayo","tag-wyke-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}