{"id":687386,"date":"2026-07-12T09:04:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T09:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/687386\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T09:04:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T09:04:17","slug":"award-winning-borley-rectory-film-champions-essex-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/687386\/","title":{"rendered":"Award-winning Borley Rectory film champions Essex talent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Samantha Anderson plays a ghostly nun, who can allegedly still be sighted in the grounds of Borley Rectory, among other phenomena. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Not just Marie the ghost, but also headless horsemen and sounds of carriages going past,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 44-year-old, from Leigh-on-Sea, was up against fellow nominee Dame Helen Mirren, who also hails from the seaside town, and she described it as a &#8220;battle of the Essex girls&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dame Helen was in The Thursday Murder Club, which was also nominated in the Thriller category <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalfilmawards.co.uk\/nominations-2026\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">along with eight other films, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;When you see who we were up against&#8230; it didn&#8217;t feel like a mistake \u2014 I&#8217;m not going to go that far \u2014 but it just felt like, &#8216;what?&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"> &#8220;I&#8217;m amazing, absolutely buzzing; I can&#8217;t believe that happened; it was like a dream.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Do you have a story suggestion for Essex? Contact us below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Samantha Anderson plays a ghostly nun, who can allegedly still be sighted in the grounds of Borley Rectory,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-687386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}