She was born with an eye condition which made her diagnosis one in six billion. But little Nell Sutton has overcome blindness to land a top acting role for a Netflix mini-series, rubbing shoulders with some top Hollywood stars.
Back in 2021, we told the story of the seven-year-old, who was born with congenital glaucoma, following her dad Paul, who lost his sight to glaucoma in his teens. You can read more about that by clicking here.
But the Gwynedd youngster, a pupil at Ysgol Bro Idris, has not allowed adversity to stand in the way of her dreams, and she has just achieved something quite remarkable. She will fly to Budapest in Hungary to film alongside Mark Ruffalo and Hugh Laurie having landed a key role in a show based on the book All The Light We Cannot See, after impressing Stranger Things director Shawn Levy, who said the youngster had "an effervescence and joyous presence that is infectious, on screen and off."
