RISING star Florence Pugh is following in her family’s footsteps by shining brightly on the silver screen.

She has won rave reviews for her performance in the lead role of the new movie Lady Macbeth, which is out this week.

The actress has won praise from film critics for her performance as a teenage bride in the film, which includes a number of sex scenes.

Last year Miss Pugh, a former St Edward’s School pupil, was named as a Breakthrough Brit by BAFTA.

The 21-year-old, the daughter of Oxford-based restaurateur Clinton Pugh, said: “Lady Macbeth has been screened at all the film festivals and been watched by all the critics, and we’ve had some great feedback already so it will be great to see what the public think – it’s really exciting.”

Mr Pugh, who runs a number of restaurants in Oxford, including Cafe Coco in Cowley Road, said he was delighted Florence had followed sister Arabella Gibbins, 31, and brother Toby Sebastian, 25, into the limelight.

Arabella is an actress and a singer while Toby has appeared in renowned TV fantasy drama Game of Thrones.

And Florence’s 13-year-old sister Rafaela has appeared in Born of War, a 2014 film directed by Oxford’s Vicki Jewson.

Mr Pugh said: “I’m incredibly proud of all them – so is their mother Deborah – they are all very talented and they are lovely kids.

“They still live with us most of the time and they are very supportive of each other – their mum does a lot of work helping them.”

Mr Pugh described Florence’s performance in Lady Macbeth as ‘level-headed, professional, brilliant’.

He said there would be a special screening of the movie at the Odeon Cinema in George Street tomorrow featuring a live Q&A from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, before it is shown at selected UK cinemas from Friday.

The film has been adapted by scriptwriter Alice Birch from Nikolai Leskov’s 19th century Russian novella Lady Macbeth Of The Mtsensk, with the gripping tragedy set in rural England in 1865.

Miss Pugh plays Katherine, who is stifled by her loveless marriage to a bitter man twice her age.

She embarks on a passionate affair with a young worker on her husband’s estate and the tension mounts.

The film, which was shot in County Durham, is directed by William Oldroyd and produced by Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly.

Miss Pugh also starred in coming-of-age tale The Falling in 2014.

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