
Age: 39
female
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.

Nicola Coughlan

Siobhán Patrick
for Siobhán Patrick in Go Luck Yourself
Suggested by williammganas

Someone has been stealing Christmas’s joy, and there’s only one clue to the culprit: a single shamrock. With Coal bust restructuring Christmas, Kris volunteers to investigate St. Patrick’s Day. His cover: an ambassador from Christmas to foster goodwill. What could go wrong? Everything it seems. Because Lochlann, Crown Prince of St. Patrick’s Day, isn’t happy to host the Christmas prince. Kris tries to be professional, but at every event they’re shoved into across Ireland, Loch is loud, infuriating, obstinate, hot— Wait—hot? Kris might be in trouble. Especially when it turns out Christmas’s missing magic isn’t as simple as a theft—and there’s more at work behind Loch, too. Can a spare Prince unravel this, or will Kris lose something more valuable than his Holiday’s resources … like his heart?