Kimberley Nixon, who appears with Judi Dench, Imelda Staunton, Francesca Annis, Julie McKenzie, Simon Woods and a

host of other wonderful actors in Cranford, which has become a solid-gold hit on the BBC.

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Last Sunday’s second episode garnered close to eight million viewers. On the same day the first show was re-broadcast, claiming over three million more fans. Ms Nixon (pictured) plays rector’s daughter Sophy Hutton.

(She will also be seen in the Gurinder Chadha-Paul Mayeda Berges film Angus, Thongs And Full Frontal Snogging.)