Inside Derry Girls' Nicola Coughlan's life off-screen including friendship with Queer Eye star
ok.co.ukActress Nicola Coughlan has been very much in the limelight in recent months. The star, 35, plays teenager Clare Devlin on Channel 4’s Derry Girls and can also be seen on Netflix as Penelope Featherington in Bridgerton.
Hailing from Ireland, Nicola grew up in County Galway and decided to become an actress at the age of five after watching her sister perform in plays.
After graduating with a degree in English and Classical Civilisation from the National University of Ireland, Nicola moved to England and studied at the Oxford School of Drama and Birmingham School of Acting.Though, her first break came years before this at the age of ten when she played a role in action thriller film My Brother’s War.
In 2016, after moving back to Ireland and working as a part time optician, Nicola won the role of Jess in Jess and Joe Forever at The Old Vic and went on tour that September.
