Nicola Coughlan has fast become one of the best-known Irish actors on the globe, after starring in two hugely successful series over the last few years.
In 2018, Nicola Coughlan became a household name on our shores when she appeared as one of the leading ladies in Derry Girls, a series set in Northern Ireland in the nineties.
Following this, the Galway girl earned international fame when she starred as Penelope Featherington in Netflix’s Bridgerton, but there was something in common between the two that piqued Nicola’s interest to begin with.
When it came to playing teenage Clare in Derry Girls, Nicola remembers first reading the script and feeling it was the ‘holy grail’.
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