BEVERLEY film star Eleanor Tomlinson is to become a teenage ambassador to front a nationwide campaign to tackle child poverty.
Eleanor (16), is becoming used to rubbing shoulders with the stars, having just finished filming a new version of Alice in Wonderland, starring Johnny Depp, Christopher Lee and Helena Bonham Carter.
This Saturday she will be seen on TV screens alo
ngside David Tennant, in the BBC 2 drama Einstein and Eddington, which she filmed in Budapest.
But later this month Eleanor will take a break from the bright lights to fly out to India with her father, Malcolm Tomlinson, on behalf of the charity World Vision.
Eleanor will spend a week in India as an ambassador for the charity, raising awareness of the plight of children living in extreme poverty, ahead of a major fund raising campaign which will be launched in February.
The 24-Hour Famine campaign will encourage young people in the UK to be sponsored to go without something important to them for one day, going without so that others don't have to.
By travelling to India as an ambassador for the charity, she is following in the footsteps of previous ambassadors including Atomic Kitten, and presenters Myleene Klass and Fearne Cotton.
Eleanor's father, who is also an actor, told the Beverley Guardian: "The campaign is going to ask kids to get sponsorship to give up something they enjoy for 24 hours.
"We are really looking forward to it – it is a real honour for Eleanor to be asked to be an ambassador for World Vision. I think they were looking for someone whom teenagers can associate with, and if someone in her position can make a difference, that's great."
Eleanor said: "I am a bit apprehensive about it, but I am excited about it at the same time, particularly if I can do some good. It will be an amazing experience."
Eleanor was last seen on the big screen in the teenage hit movie Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging, directed by Gurinda Chada, who also directed Bend it Like Beckham.
The new Alice in Wonderland film is not expected to reach cinemas until 2010 and until then Eleanor is continuing to juggle her film career with her A level studies at the joint Beverley High and Beverley Grammar sixth form.
