When Nina Forever debuted at Film4's FrightFest last year, the Brit flick was an instant success with the critics and its star, Abigail Hardingham, singled out as the stand out performance of the dark film.

So much so in fact that the hard-working British actress, who moved to London from High Wycombe when she was 16 to pursue a career in acting, managed to bag the Best Newcomer award at the British Independent Film Awards later that same year, a prestigious gong which in the past has gone to the likes of Jamie Bell and Ben Whishaw. Now with the film about to hit cinema screens in February 2016, interest in Hardingham - who plays a woman haunted by her boyfriend's dead ex girlfriend - is about be renewed.

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