Derry Girls cast: Who is in the cast of Derry Girls?
DERRY Girls returns once more for its final season of the popular Channel 4 teen sitcom. The main cast will return to reprise their memorable roles, as well as some new faces. Find out here who you can expect to see on your screens. Who is stars in Derry Girls season three? Nicola Coughlan as […]
DERRY Girls returns once more for its final season of the popular Channel 4 teen sitcom.
The main cast will return to reprise their memorable roles, as well as some new faces. Find out here who you can expect to see on your screens.
Who is stars in Derry Girls season three?
Nicola Coughlan as Clare Devlin
Nicola Mary Coughlan is a 35-year-old Irish actress.
She is best known for her role in Derry Girls and the Netflix period drama Bridgerton.
Coughlan began playing Clare Devlin in 2018 as one of the main characters in Derry Girls.
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Saoirse-Monica Jackson as Erin Quinn
Saoirse-Monica Jackson is a 28-year-old Irish actress.
She made her TV debut in 2016, when she landed the role of Sasha in Harlan Coben’s The Five, appearing in four episodes.
In 2018, her performance as Erin in Derry Girls was so well received that she was nominated for the IFTA Gala Television Award for Best Female Performance.
Louisa Harland as Orla McCool
Louisa Harland is an Irish actress, best known for The Deceived (2020), Standby (2014).
She trained at the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in London.
After graduating, Harland landed a recurring role as Kayleigh in the RTÉ One series Love/Hate in 2011.
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Jamie-Lee O’Donnell as Michelle Mallon
Jamie-Lee O’Donnell is an Irish actress from Derry, Northern Ireland.
She studied performing arts at De Montfort University in Bedfordshire.
O’Donnell played her first big role as Eva Maguire in the BBC Two NI series 6Degrees.
Dylan Llewellyn as James Maguire
Dylan John Llewellyn is a 29-year-old English actor.
In 2011, he began playing Martin “Jono” Johnson in the soap opera Hollyoaks and in the spin-off Hollyoaks Later.
More recently, in 2020, Llewellyn played Stewart Irmsby in an episode of series 9 of Call the Midwife.
Siobhan McSweeney as Sister Michael
Siobhán McSweeney is a 42-year-old Irish actress and presenter.
She gained a science degree at the University College Cork before moving to London where she secured a place at the Central School of Speech and Drama in 2001.
Her first role was in 2006 as Julia in the film The Wind That Shakes the Barley.
Tommy Tiernan as Gerry Quinn
Tommy Tiernan is a 52-year-old Irish comedian, actor, and writer.
Aside from Derry Girls, he is best known for hosting The Tommy Tiernan Show.
Since September 2020, he is the presenter of the Tommy and Hector Podcast with Laurita Blewitt.
Tara Lynne O’Neill as Mary Quinn
Tara-Lynne O’Neill is a 46-year-old film, theatre and television actress from Northern Ireland.
She later played Joanne Ryan in EastEnders between September 2002 and August 2003.
O’Neill is known for Becoming Jane (2007), Disco Pigs (2001) and Line of Duty (2012).
Kathy Kiera Clarke as Sarah McCool
Clarke is an Irish actress that made her first television role was as Bernadette Brennan in Head over Heels in 1993.
More recently, in 2021, she played the role of Claire Keenan in Bloodlands.
Clarke has also appeared on stage in a number of productions which include: Macbeth, Primecut, The Recruiting Office, Heartbreak House, Hamlet, Pentecost, and Spokesong to name a few.
Ian McElhinney as Joe McCool
Ian McElhinney is a 73-year-old Northern Irish actor and director.
He worked as a teacher before pursuing a career of acting at the age of 30.
His first role was playing Bill Sykes in a theatre production of Oliver!
In 2010, it was announced that he would take on the role of Barristan Selmy in Game of Thrones, which he played till the fifth season until his character got killed off.
Who else stars in Derry Girls?
It’s also been confirmed that Being Human actor Damien Molony and Peaky Blinders star Emmett J Scanlan will appear in the final season.
Jamie Dornan has been rumoured to appear in the third season after he recently told Vulture he would love to be involved in the show.
He said: “I know Lisa McGee, who created it, we emailed today about something actually. We’d talked about trying to get me to do something and it just kind of never worked out with locations and when they shoot, and I’m always away. I like the idea of popping up in that show, and I think it’s genius, and it makes me so proud.”
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When is Derry Girls on TV?
Derry Girls season three is set to drop on Tuesday, April 12 at 9.15pm on Channel 4.
The third season was confirmed in April 2019, but due to the pandemic, filming was delayed.
Filming eventually began in October 2021, finishing in December the same year.