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Jessica Regan (born 24 February 1982) is an Irish actress, known for portraying the role of
Niamh Donoghue
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soap opera ''
Doctors''. For her portrayal of the role, she won the award for Best Female Acting Performance at the
2014 RTS Midlands Awards, as well as the award for
Best Newcomer at the
2015 British Soap Awards. Following her departure from ''Doctors'', she starred in the BBC series ''
Ill Behaviour''. Regan also has numerous stage credits, having starred in productions including ''
Blood and Gifts
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'' and ''
Long Day's Journey into Night''.
Life and career
Regan was born on 24 February 1982 in
Kilkenny, and grew up in
Tipperary
Tipperary is the name of:
Places
*County Tipperary, a county in Ireland
**North Tipperary, a former administrative county based in Nenagh
**South Tipperary, a former administrative county based in Clonmel
*Tipperary (town), County Tipperary's na ...
. She attended
University College Cork
University College Cork – National University of Ireland, Cork (UCC) ( ga, Coláiste na hOllscoile Corcaigh) is a constituent university of the National University of Ireland, and located in Cork.
The university was founded in 1845 as one ...
(UCC), since the majority of her family live in Cork.
At UCC, she studied English and History. In 2004, at the age of 22, Regan made her stage debut as Charlotte in a
one-woman production of ''
The Yellow Wallpaper''. She described the show as the "catalyst" for her motivation to begin acting professionally, stating: "I wasn't sure if I had the ability or the stomach for acting and ''The Yellow Wallpaper'' helped me to figure that out".
Afterwards, she told her parents that she wanted to study acting at the
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA; ) is a drama school in London, England, that provides vocational conservatoire training for theatre, film, television, and radio. It is based in the Bloomsbury area of Central London, close to the Senat ...
(RADA) in
London
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, to which she stated that they were "not surprised".
She then borrowed the money for the train fare to
Dublin
Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of the Wicklow Mountains range. At the 2016 c ...
from her parents in order to audition for a place at RADA, to which she was accepted.
Regan made her television debut in the
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network operated by the state-owned Channel Four Television Corporation. It began its transmission on 2 November 1982 and was established to provide a fourth television service ...
television film ''Ladies and Gentlemen'' in 2007, after graduating from RADA.
In 2007, she made a guest appearance in an episode of the
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daytime soap opera ''