New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

‘My Friends Think It’s Hilarious!’

Nicola got her TV break in Irish comedy

Just a few years ago, Nicola Coughlan was half expecting a chat with her parents, telling her it was high time she pulled the plug on her acting dreams.

“My family would have been well within their rights to say, ‘Maybe this isn’t working out,’” the actor recalls. “But they didn’t. They had my back. If I didn’t have them, I couldn’t have done it.”

By “it”, Nicola means her dizzying rise to fame,

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