Oscars 2018: Rachel Shenton, Aka Mitzeee From 'Hollyoaks', Signs Her Speech

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Thereโ€™s nothing better than when a soap star heads over to Hollywood and achieves great things, which is why we were delighted to see Rachel Shenton triumph at Sunday (4 March) nightโ€™s Oscars.

The actress and writer is probably best-known for playing Mitzee Minniver in โ€˜Hollyoaksโ€™, but since leaving the soap in 2013, sheโ€™s been focusing her efforts on a wide range of projects - and her hard work has paid off big time.

Rachel and her partner Chris Overton, won the Best Live Action Short Film for โ€˜The Silent Childโ€™, which tells the story of a four-year-old deaf girl, learning to communicate.

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Taking to the stage to collect the prize from Tiffany Haddish and Maya Rudolph - who were the presenters of the night, by the way - Rachel composed herself before signing her speech as she gave it.

โ€œI made a promise to our 6-year-old lead actress that Iโ€™d sign this speech. And my hands are shaking a little bit, so, I apologise,โ€ she said. โ€œOur movie is about a deaf child being born into a world of silence.

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โ€œItโ€™s not exaggerated or sensationalised for the movie, this is happening, millions of children all over the world live in silence and face communication barriers, and particularly, access to education.

โ€œDeafness is a silent disability. You canโ€™t see it and itโ€™s not life-threatening, so I want to say the biggest of thank yous to the Academy for allowing us to put this in front of a mainstream audience.โ€

Soap fans were delighted by Rachelโ€™s win:

Other stars who were victorious on the night were Allison Janney, Sam Rockwell and Roger Deakins, a British cinematographer who has previously been nominated 14 times, but never won.

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