Nicholas McGaughey is a

Welsh Welsh may refer to: Related to Wales * Welsh, referring or related to Wales * Welsh language, a Brittonic Celtic language spoken in Wales * Welsh people People * Welsh (surname) * Sometimes used as a synonym for the ancient Britons (Celtic peop ...

television Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertisin ...

actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), li ...

and

voice actor Voice acting is the art of performing voice-overs to present a character or provide information to an audience. Performers are called voice actors/actresses, voice artists, dubbing artists, voice talent, voice-over artists, or voice-over talent ...

best known for playing the character of Brandon Monk in the Welsh soap ''

Pobol y Cwm ''Pobol y Cwm'' (''People of the Valley''; ) is a Welsh-language soap opera produced by the BBC since October 1974. The longest-running television soap opera produced by the BBC, ''Pobol y Cwm'' was originally transmitted on BBC One Wales and l ...

''. He has appeared on a number of top English television programmes such as ''

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'' in 1998. He also appeared as Praetorian Officer in the 2000 Hollywood blockbuster, ''

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'', among actors such as

Russell Crowe Russell Ira Crowe (born 7 April 1964) is an actor. He was born in New Zealand, spent ten years of his childhood in Australia, and moved there permanently at age twenty one. He came to international attention for his role as Roman General Maxi ...

and

Oliver Reed Robert Oliver Reed (13 February 1938 – 2 May 1999) was an English actor known for his well-to-do, macho image and "hellraiser" lifestyle. After making his first significant screen appearances in Hammer Horror films in the early 1960s, his ...

. He also appeared in ''

Sharpe's Gold ''Sharpe's Gold'' is the second (though ninth in chronological order) historical novel in the Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell first published in 1981. The story is set in August 1810 and features the destruction of Almeida during th ...

'' in 1995 from the TV series '' Sharpe'' starring

Sean Bean Sean Bean (born Shaun Mark Bean on 17 April 1959) is an English actor. After graduating from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Bean made his professional debut in a theatre production of ''Romeo and Juliet'' in 1983. Retaining his Yorkshire ac ...

. He appeared in various TV Series including ''War and Peace'' (2016) as Self Important Major, ''Da Vinci’s Demons'' (2014) as Captain Sindona and also the same year in ''Musketeers'' "Friends and Enemies" as Innkeeper. He also appeared in ''Agatha Christie’s Poirot'' "The Labours of Hercules" in 2013 as Inspector Lementeuil. Also in 2013 he appeared in ''Atlantis'' "Twist if Fate" as Biton, ''Whitechapel'' as Derek Redman and ''New Tricks'' as Coxy. He appeared on the Welsh television series ''Pobol y Cwm'' in the role of Brandon Monk from 2002 to 2011. His character was killed off on 23 September 2011 after suffering a heart attack in hospital following the fire in the flat above the chip shop (Y Sosban Chips.) McGaughey is also a published writer of poetry and short fiction. His poem "Magic Hour" was performed at

Holyhead Holyhead (,; cy, Caergybi , "Cybi's fort") is the largest town and a community in the county of Isle of Anglesey, Wales, with a population of 13,659 at the 2011 census. Holyhead is on Holy Island, bounded by the Irish Sea to the north, and is ...

, Wales, at dusk as part of the 21 December 2017 Solstice Shorts Festival and published in the 2018 anthology Dusk from Arachne Press.

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* Welsh male television actors Welsh male soap opera actors Living people People from Morriston Male actors from Portsmouth Year of birth missing (living people) {{UK-tv-actor-stub