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All Creatures Great and Small star Rachel Shenton has opened up about her heartbreaking childhood loss, admitting it was “difficult” to say “how hard” it was. The Oscar-winner rose to prominence as Mitzeee Minniver in Hollyoaks in 2010, also appearing in the likes of Waterloo Road.

She scored an Academy Award in 2018 for her short film The Silent Child, which she wrote, produced, and starred in. Rachel, 37, has been a campaigner for hearing loss charities and learnt British Sign Language after her father, Geoff, became deaf after undergoing chemotherapy.

Stoke-on-Trent-born Rachel, who is a patron of the dDeaflinks charity in her home city, was only 12 when Geoff was diagnosed with cancer. And tragedy struck for the actress just two years later, when Geoff died.

Rachel,

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