Call the Midwife star Laura Main says she's over the moon to shun her nun outfit and embrace the swinging sixties in the show's new series.
The hit BBC show is now in its 11th series and sees Laura Main reprise her role of nun turned nurse Shelagh Turner.
The actress joined the show in 2010 and soon won over viewers with her dramatic performances - which saw her turn her back on the Catholic church in order to marry Dr Patrick Turner, played by Stephen McGann.
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And fans of the show will see Laura's character take on a new lease of life - and fashion sense - as Call The Midwife fast fowards to 1967.
Speaking to the Scottish Sun she said: "The fashions in 1967 for Shelagh are getting brighter, and the skirts are getting slightly shorter.
“I’m loving every single outfit that I get put in. It’s a humungous journey for Shelagh to go from being a nun to feeling like you didn’t want to draw attention to yourself and then slowly developing a kind of fashion eye.
“Claire, our costume designer, is absolutely brilliant, and I have to say I’m just loving Shelagh’s threads.”
The 40-year-old actress was born in Aberdeen and studied history at the University of Aberdeen before attending the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
She has been performing on stage all her life from being Louisa Von Trapp in The Sound of Music at the age of 15 to joining the musical society while at university.
The stage star has had roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company including the understudy for Alice in Alice in Wonderland.
Her other stage roles include Princess Fiona in Shrek the Musical which toured the UK in 2017 as well as Juliet in Shakespeare's tragic love story Romeo and Juliet.
As for her own love life, Laura said had she "secretly" split from her fellow actor partner Stephen McGlynn in 2017.
She casually talked about the end of the five-year relationship when previously talking to the Sunday Post saying: "If anyone were to look on the internet they would think I was still in a relationship, but let's just say I am now single."
However, Laura says that on screen romance has been one of her favourite moment on set when recently filming wedding scenes after Cyril Robinson, played by Zephryn Taitte, and Lucille Anderson, portrayed by Leona Elliott, got hitched in the show’s Christmas special.
She adds: “The wedding sequence that we shot recently was a special day. I love doing a scene like the end of an episode where all the characters are together.
“You maybe don’t have too much dialogue or you have no dialogue, so it’s literally just hanging out with your friends and having a good time."
Call The Midwife continues on Sunday, January, 23rd on BBC One at 8pm.
