“I still can’t believe it. I’m trying to process it, like, all of this can happen in just a few days,” Chyna McQueen, one of the breakout performers from HBO and Channel 4’s crime drama Get Millie Black, tells Deadline, over Zoom, from her home in New York City.
We are talking just a few days after McQueen landed a BAFTA TV Award nomination in the Best Supporting Actress category for her performance in the series. The nomination was the show’s sole BAFTA TV nod and slots McQueen into a unique piece of BAFTA history as one of the first Jamaican actresses and first Black Trans performer to be nominated for a BAFTA TV award.
“I didn’t even really know they were campaigning. I just got a call in the morning on nominations day from Simon Maxwell, the producer, who said Chyna, you’ve been nominated,” McQueen explains. “I
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