Samantha Barks has won the Breakthrough Performance award at the ELLE Style Awards.
Barks graduated from West End headliner – she first came to the public's attention in 2008 when she came third in the BBC talent show I'd Do Anything – by winning the star-making role of Eponine in the film adaptation of .
Barks shone in the Oscar-nominated film alongside Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Eddie Redmayne and Amanda Seyfried.

She accepted her award tonight from veteran performer Ronnie Wood.
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