A WORCESTER teenager is on cloud nine after she landed a contract to act in a top TV drama in the BBC Talent competition.

Charlotte Holland, aged 17, will now have an initial role in a BBC drama, either in a soap opera like EastEnders or Doctors, or programme like Merseybeat or Casualty.

Now she is determined to make the most of the opportunity after she and 29 others were judged the cream of the crop by Beeb judges.

After Charlotte, of The Hill Avenue, Battenhall, sent in her entry form for Acting Up in January, she held her own against 12,000 other entrants in the regional auditions.

Numbers were whittled down to just 200 nationally, and 15 people were then picked from two teams of 100.

Judges conceded it was a tough choice and upped the figure to 30 from the 20 initially stated.

Now Charlotte, a student at Worcester Technical College, is preparing for the big time.

"I can't wait for the first person to come up to me in the street and say 'aren't you that one off TV'," she said.

"To do something I love and get paid for it will just be a dream, really. I've been doing this since I was four years old and it's all I've ever wanted to do.

"Now I just want to get on and do my best."

Charlotte has been involved in Worcester's amateur acting scene for many years as a former member of Worcester Operatic and Dramatic Society's Youth Section (WODYS) and has recently gained a role in the production of West Side Story being staged by WODS, the youth section's parent group.

She has also appeared on Noel's House Party.

As a member of the National Youth Theatre, Charlotte is seasoned at auditions.

"It was nerve-racking at the first audition, it felt like you were just a small fish in an ocean, but a lecturer at college gave me some very good advice.

"He said that if I never expected anything then I wouldn't be disappointed, so I didn't expect anything and then I definitely wasn't disappointed." Charlotte added.

Now she is playing the waiting game again as the BBC organise different roles for the final 30.

After the BBC provides the first role, it will be down to the finalists so win further roles.

"Everybody at the last audition was brilliant. Whatever I get I will really go for it," she said.