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Nicola Mary Coughlan (born 9 January 1987) is an Irish actress. She is known for her roles as Clare Devlin in the Channel 4 sitcom Derry Girls (2018–2022) and Penelope Featherington in the Netflix period drama Bridgerton (2020–present).

Nicola Coughlan
Nicola Coughlan (2021; age 34).
Born	Nicola Mary Coughlan (1987-01-09) 9 January 1987 (age 35) Galway, County Galway, Connacht, Ireland
Education	Calasanctius College
Alma mater	NUI Galway Oxford School of Drama Birmingham School of Acting
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1997–present
Television	Derry Girls Bridgerton

Early life

Coughlan was born on 9 January 1987 in Galway, Ireland, and grew up in Oranmore.[1][2] At the age of five, when watching her older sister performing in a school play, she decided to become an actress.[3] She attended Scoil Mhuire for primary school and Calasanctius College for secondary school.[4][5] She graduated with a degree in English and Classical Civilisation from the National University of Ireland, Galway.[2][6] She then went on to train in England at the Oxford School of Drama and Birmingham School of Acting. She lives in London.^{[citation needed]}

Career

Early work (2004–2017)

At the age of 10, in 1997, Nicola Coughlan had an uncredited role in action thriller film My Brother's War.[7] In 2004, she started her career with a role in Tom Collins’ short film, The Phantom Cnut, a revenge comedy.[2][7] In the following years, she did various voice works in animated series.[7] At some point, due to financial difficulties, Coughlan had to go back to Ireland. She was suffering from depression during this period and her family helped her through the entire process.[3][8] She worked part-time at an optician in Galway. She responded to an open casting call for Jess and Joe Forever at The Old Vic in London and won the main role of Jess. The first performance was in September 2016 prior to a national tour.[3][9]

Breakthrough (2018–present)

In 2018, Coughlan began playing Clare Devlin, one of the main characters, in Derry Girls. This sitcom is set in Derry, Northern Ireland, in the 1990s.[10][11] The series was broadcast in January and February 2018 on Channel 4. But it was after its rerelease onto streaming platform Netflix in December of the same year that the show gained an international audience and an instant popularity.[7]

In the same year, she also played Hannah Dalton in Harlots. The period drama television series is set in 18th-century London. 2018 marked her West End debut in The Donmar Warehouse's production of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. The Evening Standard named her "one of the Rising Stars of 2018".[12] The same year, she competed against some of her Derry Girls co-stars in an episode of the show The Great British Bake Off.[13]

In 2019, it was announced that Coughlan had been cast in the Netflix series Bridgerton, which premiered in December 2020.[14] In this period-drama series based on the best-selling Julia Quinn book series of the same name, Coughlan plays Penelope Featherington, a reluctant debutante and youngest daughter of a nouveau-riche family in Regency-era London.[7][15]

Charity and advocacy

In 2018, while Coughlan was appearing on stage in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie at London's Donmar Warehouse, she wrote a piece for the Guardian calling out unfair scrutiny of women's bodies in theatre criticism.[15][16][17] In the following year, she made headlines again for rebutting the Daily Mirror’s comment on her 2019 British Academy Television Awards look: "Not the most flattering". She tweeted "I mean incorrect @DailyMirror I look smokin’, sorry bout it".[15] In July 2020, she auctioned off an Alex Perry dress and raised €5,000 towards the Laura Lynn Hospice, an Irish children's hospice which provides specialist palliative and supportive care services.[15][18]

In February 2019, 28 women with their suitcases led by Nicola Coughlan crossed London's Westminster Bridge to demand the decriminalisation of abortion in Northern Ireland. They represented the estimated number of women a week who had to travel to England to access abortion.[19][20]

On 26 June 2020, Coughlan and her fellow Derry Girls co-stars performed a sketch with Saoirse Ronan for the RTÉ fundraising special RTÉ Does Comic Relief. The night's proceeds went to those affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.[21]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2004	The Phantom Cnut	Katie	Short film

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2012	Doctors	Marie Callaghan	Episode: "Every End Has a Start"
2018–2022	Derry Girls	Clare Devlin	Main role
2018	Harlots	Hannah Dalton	Guest role
2019	The Great Christmas/Festive Bake Off	Herself	Contestant, Episode : "Derry Girls edition"
2020–2021	Would I Lie to You?	Herself	Panelist, Season 14 episode 6
2020–present	Bridgerton	Penelope Featherington/Lady Whistledown[22]	Main role
2021	Taskmaster	Herself	Contestant, Episode : "New Year Treat"
2021	RuPaul's Drag Race UK	Herself	Guest judge, Episode : "Great Outdoors"

Recordings

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2004–2005	The Fairytaler	Various	Voice (English version)
2008	Summer of the Flying Saucer	Janis	Voice
2010	Simsala Grimm II: The Adventures of Yoyo and Doc Croc	Various	Voice (English version)
2011	Thor: Legend of the Magical Hammer	Edda	Voice
2012	Ivan the Incredible	Lottie	Voice (English Version of Gummi T, 2012)
2020	Her Song	Eve	Voice
2021	Whistle Through the Shamrocks	Tiny Nenny/ Granny Maureen/ Herself	Voice, Also Creator and Writer (6 episode Podcast)

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Director	Theatre	Ref
2013	Chapel Street	Kirsty	Bryony Shanahan	Scrawl Theatre Company UK Tour	[23]
2014	Duck	Sophie	Stella Feehily	Out of Joint Theatre Company	[24]
2015	Nadya	Elena	Sarah Meadows	Park Theatre	[25]
2015–2017	Jess and Joe Forever	Jess	Derek Bond	The Old Vic Orange Tree Theatre Traverse Theatre	[26]
2018	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie	Joyce Emily	Polly Findlay	Donmar Warehouse	[27]

Awards and nominations

Awards and nominations received by Nicola Coughlan

Year	Award	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2017	Off West End Awards	Best Actress in a Play	Jess and Joe Forever	Nominated	[2]
2021	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series	Bridgerton	Nominated	[28]
	Irish Film and Television Awards	Best Supporting Actress in a Drama		Nominated
		Rising Star Award		Won	[29]

References

External links

• Nicola Coughlan at IMDb
• Nicola Coughlan on Instagram

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Nicola Mary Coughlan (* 9. Januar 1987 in Galway) ist eine irische Synchronsprecherin und Schauspielerin. Sie ist bekannt durch Hauptrollen in Derry Girls und Bridgerton.

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Nicola Mary Coughlan (9 enero de 1987) es una actriz irlandesa, mayormente conocida por su trabajo en la serie Derry Girls como Clare Devlin y como Penelope Featherington en la serie de Netflix Bridgerton.

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