Hull-trained star Sheridan Smith has won the leading actress award at the Baftas.
Smith, who learned her trade as a student at Hull's Northern Theatre, triumphed for her performance in the ITV drama Mrs Biggs.
A tearful Smith, who played the wife of Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs, said: "Is this a wind-up? Is this for real?"
Smith, who said winning was like an "out of body experience", also said she was going to call the real Mrs Biggs in Australia to tell her she had won.
She will next appear in a new BBC drama, The 7.39, with Olivia Colman, who won two awards last night.
Colman made Bafta history when she took home gongs for her performances in Twenty Twelve and Accused at the ceremony last nigth.
The Broadchurch star won her first gong - best supporting actress - for her role as the mother of a murdered son in the BBC drama Accused.
The actress, who appeared to swear in surprise when her name was read out, then secured best female in a comedy for her role in BBC Olympics satire Twenty Twelve.
Collecting her second award Colman, who also starred in Peep Show and film Tyrannosaur, said: "I'm not even the funniest one in our own programme."
Accepting her Accused trophy, she said: "Turns out it does mean a lot...and I'm not going to cry."
Colman took to the stage three times in all, as Twenty Twelve also scooped the award for best comedy.
Other winners of the night include Ben Whishaw, who won leading actor for Richard II (The Hollow Crown) on BBC Two.
Simon Russell Beale won best supporting actor for Henry IV Part 2 (The Hollow Crown), and Steve Coogan took home the trophy for best male performance in a comedy.
Funnyman Alan Carr won best entertainment performance for his show Alan Carr: Chatty Man, while Graham Norton took home the entertainment programme award for The Graham Norton Show.
BBC Two's The Shame of the Catholic Church (This World) won the best current affairs Bafta, beating BBC One's Britain's Hidden Housing Crisis (Panorama Special), ITV's The Other Side of Jimmy Savile (Exposure) and Al Jazeera Investigates' What Killed Arafat?.
EastEnders won best soap and continuing drama, trumping Coronation Street, Emmerdale and Shameless.
Our War won best factual series, while 7/7: One Day In London took home the gong for best single documentary. Meanwhile Hillsborough – The Truth At Last (Granada Reports) triumphed in the news coverage category.
It was champagne all round for the Made in Chelsea cast, after the show won best reality and constructed factual. It beat The Audience, I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here! and The Young Apprentice.
And it was the icing on the cake for Paul Hollywood Mary Berry, as The Great British Bake Off triumphed in the features category.
The London 2012 Paralympic Games won best sport and live event, while the Radio Times audience award - voted for by members of the public - went to Game of Thrones.
