Model lands role as farmer’s daughter

Model Agyness Deyn is to play a farmer in a bleak drama set in rural Scotland.

The former fish and chip shop worker from Lancashire – real name Laura Hollins – will star opposite Peter Mullan in British director Terence Davies’ new film Sunset Song.

The film, based on the 1932 novel of the same name by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, will see Deyn play farmer’s daughter Chris Guthrie.

The 29-year-old model said: “When I read the script I fell completely in love with the character and the story. I can’t wait to get started.”