It wasn’t long ago that Ambika Mod was working as a PA in the finance department at Condé Nast. Fast forward a couple of years and the beloved star of This Is Going To Hurt and One Day experienced an Old Hollywood transformation at the British Independent Film Awards. (Proof perhaps that a traditional nine-to-five is but an obstacle to self-actualisation.)
Hair swept into a bouncy Marilyn Monroe parting with a slash of red lipstick, the actor posed on last night’s red carpet in a lace-embroidered Rabanne dress with an Artists4Ceasefire pin fastened to its bust. She looked glamorous, collected, even despite the galeforce winds of Storm Darragh threatening to capsize the event’s step-and-repeat. Olivia Colman, Saoirse Ronan and Mikey Madison stood beside Mod without so much as a flyaway fluttering in the breeze.
Scroll below to see the best-dressed stars at the 2024 BIFAs.