‘Being mixed race shouldn’t stop you doing anything’

STUNNING actress Ruth Negga has spoken out about her experience as a mixed race child growing up in Ireland.

The Love/Hate star, who is playing iconic singer Shirley Bassey in a new BBC2 biopic, revealed she was made to feel different — but in a good way.

Ruth, 29, said: “Where I grew up in Limerick there weren’t any black or mixed race people but I never, ever, ever had any hassle.