Inside Lenny Rush's life off-screen from family and school life to age

Lenny Rush is champion known for his roles successful Am I Being Unreasonable? and Dodger - but what astir his beingness off-screen?

Children successful Need airs connected BBC One contiguous and 1 of the presenters is young histrion Lenny Rush. The award-winning prima archetypal appeared connected camera connected the CBeebies documentary Our Family.

He has since gained nationalist designation for his relation successful Daisy May Cooper’s BBC One drama Am I Being Unreasonable?, successful which helium improvised immoderate of his lines. The 15-year-old actor, from Burnham successful Essex, has a aesculapian information called spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita which affects his growth, resulting successful dwarfism.

He lives astatine location with his parents and younger brother, Bobby. It was his mum Lisa who applied to beryllium portion of the Our Family series, which followed antithetic types of families.

Lenny was 7 astatine the clip and this was erstwhile helium realised helium loved being successful beforehand of the camera. His mum opened up connected the equilibrium betwixt enactment and school, arsenic helium took 3 months disconnected to movie Am I Being Unreasonable?

“It’s a good balance, due to the fact that Lenny would bash this full-time if helium could – helium perfectly loves it and he’s surviving the imagination astatine the infinitesimal – but helium is young, and helium needs to person that clip wherever helium keeps his feet connected the ground,” she told The Guardian.

Lenny said helium was precise fortunate with his friends, who are "all beauteous and precise supportive" of his work.

He did admit determination was immoderate jealousy amongst his peers, saying: "It’s 1 kid successful peculiar and you can’t bash thing to halt that.

“This is truly ironic coming from idiosyncratic with dwarfism, but you’ve got to beryllium the bigger person.”

Overall, helium was pleased to accidental the affirmative comments ever outweighed the negative.

His household has ever been precise supportive, with Lisa giving up her occupation arsenic a dental caregiver to attraction for him. Lenny's dad, Steve, runs a room plan business.

He has had to person galore surgical operations implicit the years and has shown his gratitude to his parents arsenic they person raised him to beryllium confident.

Lenny is connected Instagram and his account, tally by his mum, features immoderate photos of himself with his dada and member enjoying household clip together.

Children successful Need airs connected BBC One contiguous astatine 7pm