Nicola Coughlan

Known for ActingBorn 1987-01-09 (age 39)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 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Dodger Special: Coronation

The Phantom Cnut

GOAT

Derry Girls

Bridgerton

Would I Lie to You?

Harlots

The Fairytaler

RuPaul's Drag Race UK

The Graham Norton Show

Rhod Gilbert's Growing Pains

Barbie

The Velveteen Rabbit

An Audience with Kylie

The Kelly Clarkson Show

The Magic Faraway Tree

Big Mood

The Netflix Afterparty

Seize Them!

Rob Beckett's Smart TV

Ivan the Incredible

The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice

Svengali

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

My Brother's War

Doctors

Saturday Night Live UK

National Theatre Live: The Playboy of the Western World

Taskmaster’s New Year Treat

Movies with Ali Plumb

Summer of the Flying Saucer