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Chance to shine: hundreds of boys audition

CLAIRE FOY was among the winners at the Screen Actors Guild Awards as she picked up another gong for playing the young Queen in The Crown.

The British star, 32, won the prize for outstanding performance by an actress in a TV drama series. It follows her win at the Golden Globes earlier this month. Her co-star John Lithgow, who plays Winston Churchill in the Netflix series, was overlooked at the Globes but won best actor at last night’s SAG awards.

However The Crown was beaten to the ensemble cast prize by fellow Netflix show Stranger

Things. The sci-fi programme, set in the Eighties, stars Winona Ryder and a young cast led by

British star Millie Bobby

Brown. Downton Abbey, which ended in December 2015, also missed out on the prize, its final chance for a SAG award.

At the ceremony in Los

Angeles, Foy paid tribute to another co-star, Matt

Smith, who played Prince

Philip. “Thank you for making this job a joy and making me laugh,” she said.

It was one of the few acceptance speeches that did not criticise Donald Trump.

In the battle for best actor, Denzel Washington, star of Fences, beat Manchester By The Sea’s

Casey Affleck. Emma Stone was named best actress for La La

Land. HUNDREDS of children flocked to the West End for the chance of a starring role in Steven Spielberg’s new film.

Boys aged six to nine were invited to yesterday’s open casting for a part in a movie that has already signed up Star Wars actor Oscar Isaac and Oscarwinner Mark Rylance. It is about an Italian Jewish boy who is kidnapped and converted to Christianity, and the struggle to reunite him with his family.

Shooting is in spring. Nina Gold Casting, which is organising the auditions, has previously worked on the Star Wars films and Game Of Thrones. Its advert asked for “a truly special, gifted, curious and intelligent boy with a mischievous streak” to play the character Edgardo, with “no experience necessary”. Almost 300 young actors attended.

The film, which has the working title The Kidnapping Of Edgardo

Stars: Millie Bobby Brown and the Stranger Things cast, main picture. Inset, a gurning Winona Ryder. Left, Claire Foy. Top left, Downton’s Michelle Dockery and Laura Carmichael. Right, Danielle Brooks, from Orange Is The New Black, Viola Davis, Brie...