Cherry Campbell

2016

Cherry Campbell

Age: 11
Location: Glasgow

At eight years old, Cherry was selected to play the beloved character of Katie Morag in the BBC adaptation of the Katie Morag book series by Mairi Hedderwick. She was the youngest ever BAFTA award winner, picking up the award for Best Performer at the Children’s BAFTAs in 2014.

She was also a Young Scot award finalist in the entertainment category in April this year, and just last week Cherry and the Katie Morag team picked up a prestigious Peabody Award for Entertainment and Children’s Programming.

Earlier this year she helped launch a Scottish Government-led Read, Write, and Count campaign event at the Gorbals Library on National Library Day, where she read two of her favourite children’s books.