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Tserkezie has been a full BAFTA member since 2014 and is Deputy Chair of BFI's
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Wheelie Wonderful Life of Millie Monroe' in a planned series called Toys for Tomorrow. She won a John Brabourne Award in 2016 and was a board member of the Royal Television Society North East and the Borders 2017–21.
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as a child and has been a wheelchair user for most of her life. Her website was voted "best representation of a wheelchair user" by children's organisation Whizz Kidz in 2005. In 2020, she was named as one of the UK's 100 most influential disabled people.
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