A MULTI-award winning actress from Kincardine has been presented with a lifetime achievement award from Bafta Scotland.

Former Dunfermline High School pupil Shirley Henderson was presented with the honour for Outstanding Contribution to Film and Television at a ceremony in Glasgow on Sunday.

Shirley, who has starred in Doctor Who, Bridget Jones' Diary and Trainspotting, but is perhaps best known for her role as Moaning Myrtle in the Harry Potter series, dedicated the award to her late Father who she said encouraged her to "dare to dream".

During her acceptance speech, she recalled memories of her childhood in the village.

“When I was about 12, my mum and dad decided to take us to Butlin’s for a summer holiday," she said. “We heard there was a talent contest, I learnt a song and sang my song in the talent show and I won us a week’s holiday.

“But the really nice thing that happened from that was that someone saw me and they offered me my very first gig which was to sing in a boxing ring in between bouts in Kincardine where I grew up, the village I grew up.

"That summer was when I started to get that feeling, to be up on a stage, or a boxing ring in my case, and it felt kind of like the world was opening up a wee bit.

"So mum and dad, for that slightly life-changing holiday, thank you so much. "

Shirley said the Bafta honour was overwhelming, lovely and nerve-wracking at the same time.

"I dedicate this to my dad because, well, it is such a long time since I have seen him and I miss him so much," she added. "When I was a girl, my dad used to sometimes go to a pub on a Saturday night. He would come home, he would be really happy.

"We would be excited because dad would sometimes bring home a carton of beef curry from the one and only Chinese takeaway in the village and me and my mum and my two sisters and my dad would sit round and we would share that and it would just be great.

"My dad would say to me 'come on Shirls, let's go out for a walk'. I was the eldest so I went out for a walk with my dad into the dark and the cold and we would walk the streets and look up at the sky and the stars and he would start to talk to me and say you do realise there's a whole world out there, there's things to do, there's adventures to have.

"I didn't know what he was talking about because I was just a wee girl and my world was really, really tiny but he said all you have to do is dream, just dare to dream, pet. So Daddy, I dared to dream and this is for you, wherever you are."

Henderson, who has appeared in dozens of stage, film and television productions, also paid tribute to author Irvine Welsh.

She has appeared in two on-screen adaptations of his written work, Filth and Trainspotting.