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Marisa Abela put on a loved-up display with her boyfriend Jamie Bogyo as they strolled hand-in-hand through London recently.<br>The Industry actress, 25, cut a chic figure in a navy trench coat which she layered above a grey shirt while framing her face with a pair of black sunglasses.<br>Meanwhile, Jamie, 29, star of the West End’s Moulin Rouge, wrapped up in a green coat while cutting a white T-shirt and navy trousers.<br> Couple: Marisa Abela wrapped up in a navy trench coat as she strolled hand-in-hand with her boyfriend Jamie Bogyo through London<br>In the racy BBC One drama Industry about graduate trainees at a City investment bank, Marisa played an heiress with a taste for drug-fuelled romps.<br>And in reality, she was educated at the £44,235-per-year Roedean boarding school in East Sussex and her mother, Caroline Gruber, is a distinguished stage actress whose TV roles include Miss Washington in Grange Hill.<br> RELATED ARTICLES

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It follows reports that Marisa has emerged as a frontrunner to play Amy Winehouse in the biopic of her life, Back to Black.<br>Showbusiness runs through her veins from her father too, Angelo Abela who was in comedy act the Vicious Boys and is now a successful television director.<br> Sought after role: It follows reports that Marisa (left in Mar and drama Industry, is in discussions to play the singer.<br>They allege that the role was always intended to go to a newcomer rather than a pop star, and that there are other actresses in the mix.<br>As well as Industry, she also starred in Sky TV series COBRA and appears alongside James Norton in the crime thriller Rogue Agent.<br>Marisa has also been cast in the highly anticipated Barbie film, directed by Greta Gerwig.<br> Newcomer: They report that the role was always intended to go to a newcomer rather than a pop star, and that there are other actresses in the mix <br>She described her first day on set alongside Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling as ‘totally surreal’ – and revealed there is a lot more in store for viewers.<br>As she gets into her new role, which has not yet been revealed, Marisa said she was ‘incredibly excited’ to be cast.<br>Speaking to , she said: ‘I really don’t want to spoil anything for anyone, so all I’ll say is, the photos you’ve seen barely scratch the surface.

I see people online freaking out about certain outfits and I think, just wait until you see the rest.'<br>Film fans may also recognise Marisa’s mother, who is also an actress, from long-running BBC show Grange Hill. Caroline Gruber played Miss Washington in British TV series and also starred in the 2017 film Disobedience.  <br> Rising star: The British actress, is famous for her role as Yasmin Kara-Hanani in the London-set financial thriller Industry (pictured at the British Vogue Self-Portrait Summer Party with Jamie)<br>The rising star grew up watching her mother work in television, film and the West End – but according to Marisa, this didn’t particularly encourage her to enter the world of showbusiness.<br>Instead she was put off the industry, thinking she didn’t have the nerves for it. <br>’I think I rebelled against it because I could see it took a lot of gumption and it scared me quite a bit,’ she told . <br>’I was going to be a human-rights lawyer.'<br>However, while filling her childhood with sports like swimming, netball and horse riding, Marisa still dabbled in youth theatre.<br> Doing well for herself: Marisa has also been cast in the highly anticipated Barbie film, directed by Greta Gerwig, opposite Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling<br>In English and Drama lessons, she took an avid interest in the plays she studied and she appeared in several school productions.<br>At 18 she was encouraged by her drama teacher to take up classes with a local youth theatre school, The Theatre Workshop, which allowed her to explore a more ‘serious’ side of acting outside of musical theatre.<br>Despite showing early childhood education classes online california promise in acting Marisa initially intended to study history and law at University college London to pursue her big dream of becoming a human rights lawyer.<br>But when she went to visit UCL, Marisa was lured in by the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA) which was just down the road.<br> Within weeks, she deferred her place at the university and enrolled at the prestigious drama school, for which she had to undertake four rounds of auditions that culminate in a full day workshop.<br>In an interview with , she said: ‘For some reason, I always did my best work at RADA and Guildhall.

Something about the environment both schools create… I found it easier to connect with myself and produce truthful work.’ <br>’I have always had a passion for acting and the theatre… I’ve always been so interested by human beings and the way we interact with each other.'<br>When she moved to the capital to study, Marisa admitted she was a home-bird and was going to miss her mother’s cooking.<br>She said: ‘All that’s stressing me out right now is how does my mum make her mashed potatoes so smooth because I can’t go without mash for too long.<br> Superstar: The film is expected to follow her life as a talented jazz singer in North London to her rise as a global superstar with her second album, 2006’s Back to Black, which included her smash hit single Rehab<br>Also coming up for the starlet is Jamie Adams film She is Love, about an estranged divorced couple coming back together to revisit the past, where Marisa will star alongside Haley Bennett and Sam Riley.<br>Meanwhile, Sam Taylor-Johnson has signed on to direct the biopic, now entitled Back to Black, the same name of Winehouse’s breakthrough 2006 album, via