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Nicola Coughlan
Galway, Ireland
Nicola Mary Coughlan is an Irish actress. She is known for her roles as Clare Devlin in the Channel 4 sitcom Derry Girls and Penelope Featherington in the Netflix period drama Bri…
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Nicola Mary Coughlan is an Irish actress. She is known for her roles as Clare Devlin in the Channel 4 sitcom Derry Girls and Penelope Featherington in the Netflix period drama Bridgerton. She earned a Screen Actors Guild Awards nomination for playing the lead role of Penelope Featherington in the third season of Bridgerton. Coughlan earned a British Academy Television Awards nomination for her role as Maggie Donovan in Big Mood (2024–present). Coughlan was born on 9 January 1987 in Galway, Ireland, and grew up in Oranmore. The youngest of three siblings, her father served in the Irish Army before passing away in 2016, and her mother was a stay-at-home parent. At the age of five, while watching her sister perform in a school play, Coughlan decided she wanted to become an actress. She attended Scoil Mhuire Primary School and Calasanctius College. She graduated with a degree in English and Classical Civilisation from the National University of Ireland, Galway. She then went on to train in England at the Oxford School of Drama and Birmingham School of Acting.
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Movies and shows, newest first
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2027
Charlie vs. the Chocolate Factory
Movie (voice)
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2026
National Theatre Live: The Playboy of the Western World
Movie Pegeen Mike
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2026
The Magic Faraway Tree
Movie Silky
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2026
Saturday Night Live UK
TV show Self - Cameo (uncredited)
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2026
GOAT
Movie Olivia Burke (voice)
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2024
Seize Them!
Movie Humble Joan
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2024
Big Mood
TV show Maggie
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2024
Rob Beckett's Smart TV
TV show Self - Guest
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2023
An Audience with Kylie
Movie Self
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2023
Dodger Special: Coronation
Movie Queen Victoria
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2023
The Velveteen Rabbit
Movie Playroom Fairy (voice)
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2023
Barbie
Movie Barbie
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2021
Rhod Gilbert's Growing Pains
TV show Guest
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2021
The Netflix Afterparty
TV show Self
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2021
Taskmaster’s New Year Treat
TV show Self
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2020
Bridgerton
TV show Penelope Featherington
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2019
RuPaul's Drag Race UK
TV show Self - Guest Judge
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2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
TV show Self
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2018
Derry Girls
TV show Clare Devlin
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2017
The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice
TV show Self
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2017
Harlots
TV show Hannah Dalton
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2016
Movies with Ali Plumb
TV show Self
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2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV show Self
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2013
Svengali
Movie Club Girl
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2012
Ivan the Incredible
Movie Lottie -English (voice)
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2009
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
TV show Self - Guest
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2008
Summer of the Flying Saucer
Movie Janis Voice
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2007
Would I Lie to You?
TV show Self
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2007
The Graham Norton Show
TV show Self
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2004
The Fairytaler
TV show voice
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2004
The Phantom Cnut
Movie Katie
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2000
Doctors
TV show Marie Callaghan
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1997
My Brother's War
Movie Little Girl
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Untitled Roald Dahl Series
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