Former Hollyoaks star Rachel Shenton hosted bake sale to fund Oscar-winning movie "It was a real team effort to get it made." Former Hollyoaks star Rachel Shenton has admitted that bake sales helped fund her Oscar-winning movie, The Silent Child. The actress – who played Mitzeee Minniver in the Channel 4 soap – picked up an award for Best Short Film for her screenplay at the Oscars earlier this month. The film is about a young deaf girl who learns from a social worker how to communicate via sign