Vicky McClure

Acting

Vicky McClure

Born

1983-05-08 (43)

Place of birth

Nottingham, England

Known for

Acting

Credits

50 titles

Vicky McClure – English actress and presenter, born 8 May 1983 in Wollaton, Nottingham, England. She made her screen debut at 15 in A Room for Romeo Brass (1999) and broke through as Lol Jenkins in This Is England (2006) by director Shane Meadows, a role she reprised in the sequel mini-series This Is England '86 (2010), This Is England '88 (2011), and This Is England '90 (2015), winning a BAFTA for Best Actress for the '86 series. Her other notable film credits include Filth and Wisdom (2008, Madonna's directorial debut) and Hummingbird (2013) opposite Jason Statham. On television she is best known for Detective Inspector Kate Fleming in Line of Duty (2012–2021, 36 episodes), Karen White …

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 14 titles

Anna Karenina poster
6.7

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.

Anna Karenina

2012

Hummingbird poster
6.2

Homeless and on the run from a military court martial, a damaged ex-special forces soldier navigating London's criminal underworld seizes an opportunity to assume another man's identity, transforming into an avenging angel in the process.

Hummingbird

2013

Svengali poster
5.4

Svengali tells the story of Dixie, a postman from South Wales, and a music fanatic. All his life he’s dreamed of discovering a great band and then one day, trawling through YouTube, he finds them… ‘The Premature Congratulations’. He hunts them down and offers them his management services. They are young, arrogant, sexy and utterly magnificent. Putting their demo on a cassette tape, Dixie heads out onto the streets of London…

Svengali

2013

Convenience poster
5.7

Two friends attempt to rob a petrol station but are so useless that they end up working there all night.

Convenience

2015

Mother's Day poster
7.6

On the day before Mother's Day 1993, Colin and Wendy Parry's lives are torn apart when their youngest son Tim is killed in a terrorist attack by the IRA in Warrington's town centre. The attack shocks ordinary people on both sides of the Irish Sea. Sue McHugh, an unassuming and normally shy Dublin housewife, is deeply affected by the tragedy. Spurred into action by the events in Warrington and the hope that she can make a difference, Sue urges people across Ireland to demonstrate that the killings on all sides must stop. But has Sue underestimated the challenge of brokering peace in a community that has known only conflict? As the grieving Parrys search desperately for answers to their son's senseless killing, they form an alliance with Sue, her husband Arthur, and her Peace '93 movement, travelling to Dublin in a bid to bring about peace and ensure Tim's enduring legacy is one of hope and tolerance. Based on real events.

Mother's Day

2018

Operator poster
7.8

An Emergency Services Operator in a Fire Control Room has just started a long night shift when she picks up a call from a desperate young mother. An hour previously, Gemma had fallen asleep in front of the television and has now woken to find the room full of smoke. Her three year old son is trapped in his bedroom upstairs. Flames have started to creep down the stairs that Gemma must use in order to reach him. The operator’s guidance is all that Gemma can rely on in order to survive.

Operator

2015

Stolen poster
6.1

A fast-paced thriller about a vital and terrifying subject - the trafficking of children - with the heart-stopping vibrancy, compassion and energy that only the fate of children inspires. This is a story that touches all our lives. And it's happening now.

Stolen

2011

An Alternative Reality: The Football Manager Documentary poster
6.8

"It’s the story of the people who escape to the alternative reality of being a football manager, and the effect this has had on their lives. It’s also the story of how a computer game made by football fans has become a part of the world it set out to replicate." - Miles Jacobson

An Alternative Reality: The Football Manager Documentary

2014

A Plea for Grimsby poster
3.5

A short film about a boy balancing the stress of growing up with his love for Grimsby Town F.C

A Plea for Grimsby

2015

Macbeth: Shakespeare Lives poster
7.0

A contemporary take on Lady Macbeth, summoning up her demons. A mix of live action and animation.

Macbeth: Shakespeare Lives

2016

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NR

A tense psychological drama.

Born Again

2015

Beverley poster
7.0

Beverley is a short film written and directed by Alexander Thomas and produced by Cass Pennant and starring Vicky McClure and Laya Lewis. It follows the identity struggles of a mixed-race teenager who moves to white suburbia. Her fight to fit in with the local gang leads to devastating consequences.

Beverley

2015

Just Before Dawn poster
NR

Two female friends are on a mission to rediscover the heady days of their youth. At a late night, isolated party in the countryside one of them discovers this might be more difficult than she imagined.

Just Before Dawn

2010

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NR

The Nest is a Cathy Come Home story for Generation Rent; a warning tale of how quickly social harmony can break down when people are pushed out to the sidelines. Janine is a single mother struggling to raise her children at odds with the local community. And her daughter Clemy is an angry teenager trying to assert her growing independence. This tense environment is exacerbated by the fact they are living illegally in a squatted house. After being evicted the family is forced to confront their growing sense of resentment and frustration at the world around them.

The Nest

2016

2000s · 5 titles

Filth and Wisdom poster
5.6

Filth & Wisdom is a poignant view of the lives of three not quite ordinary friends settled into meaningless jobs that barely keep them afloat while helping to finance their dreams of bigger and brighter futures. Their unique yet universal stories capture their struggles that are at turns funny and tragic but always brutally honest. Their intertwined lives explore the inevitable: a path paved with filth will often end in wisdom and one paved with wisdom will often end in filth.

Filth and Wisdom

2008

A Room for Romeo Brass poster
7.0

Two twelve-year-old boys, Romeo and Gavin, undergo an extraordinary test of character and friendship when Morell, a naive but eccentric and dangerous stranger, comes between them. Morell befriends with the two boys and later asks them to help him pursue Romeo's beautiful elder sister. He gradually becomes more violent after she rejects him.

A Room for Romeo Brass

2000

This Is England poster
7.5

A story about a troubled boy growing up in England, set in 1983. He comes across a few skinheads on his way home from school, after a fight. They become his new best friends, even like family. Based on experiences of director Shane Meadows.

This Is England

2007

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10.0

DC Lenny Milton (Winstone) is not as ambitious as his best friend and popular boss DCI Michael Love (Dunbar), but the pair are drinking partners and their wives and children are close. However, this goes very wrong over the space of 7 days, when Milton is approached by the police complaints division asking him to go undercover and investigate allegations of corruption against his friend. Milton finds this difficult at first and tries to dismiss the evidence building up. But as his suspicions begin to take shape his position appears to be in danger.

Tough Love

2000

The Stairwell poster
5.7

Very short film from director Shane Meadows, filmed on a mobile phone and was made to promote the NOKIA Shorts competition.

The Stairwell

2006

Series credits

The Graham Norton Show poster
7.2

Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on around the world that week. The guests poke fun and share their opinions on the main news stories. Graham is often joined by a band or artist to play the show out.

The Graham Norton Show

2007

Top Gear poster
7.6

This fast-paced and stunt-filled motor show tests whether cars, both mundane and extraordinary, live up to their manufacturers' claims. The long-running show travels to locations around the world, performing extreme stunts and challenges to see what the featured cars are capable of doing. The current hosts are Paddy McGuinness, Chris Harris and Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff.

Top Gear

2002

The Last Leg poster
5.7

Adam Hills and co-hosts Josh Widdicombe and Alex Brooker provide some offbeat commentary on the significant moments of the past seven days.

The Last Leg

2013

Line of Duty poster
8.2

A drama about the investigations of AC-12, a controversial police anticorruption unit.

Line of Duty

2012

Doctors poster
4.8

Set in the fictional Midlands town of Letherbridge, defined as being close to the city of Birmingham, this soap opera follows the staff and families of a doctor's surgery.

Doctors

2000

Broadchurch poster
7.9

The murder of a young boy in a small coastal town brings a media frenzy, which threatens to tear the community apart.

Broadchurch

2013

Who Do You Think You Are? poster
7.0

A British genealogy documentary series in which celebrities trace their ancestry, discovering secrets and surprises from their past.

Who Do You Think You Are?

2004

Alex Rider poster
7.8

Alex Rider is an ordinary teenager enlisted to work on behalf of MI6, where he uses skills he didn't know he had to become an extraordinary spy.

Alex Rider

2020

Room 101 poster
6.6

Fast-moving game show meets talk show, which sees Frank Skinner refereeing three celebrities each week as they compete to banish their top peeve or worst nightmare to the depths of Room 101.

Room 101

1994

Trigger Point poster
6.9

For London's bomb disposal experts, no day is ever the same as they risk their lives protecting the city from harm.

Trigger Point

2022

Insomnia poster
6.2

Emma a successful woman fears of losing her mind after suffering from sleep deprivation two weeks before turning 40. Only by investigating the truth of her painful past, can she find the answers to her present.

Insomnia

2024

The Late Late Show poster
5.5

Chat show that looks at current affairs in Ireland.

The Late Late Show

1962

Coming Up poster
5.7

Coming Up is a British Channel 4 television series of films made for television by new directors and writers. The first series was in 2006, and each year's series comprises seven or eight films. Series 6 was shown from July to September 2011. A reviewer in The Independent wrote: "Thank goodness for Coming Up ... it's a genuinely interesting display of possibilities".

Coming Up

2003

This Is England '86 poster
7.8

It's 1986 - the year Maradona ends England's World Cup dreams in Mexico; the year Top Gun is the highest grossing film; the year over 3.4 million Brits are unemployed and the year Shaun is leaving school.

This Is England '86

2010

Without Sin poster
6.8

Without Sin is a four-part British television drama series created and written by Frances Poletti, and starring Vicky McClure. Produced by Left Bank Pictures, the serial broadcast in its entirety on ITVX on 28 December 2022. Three years on from the death of her daughter, taxi driver Stella Tomlinson continues to grieve as if it were just yesterday. With her family life in tatters, she suddenly receives a message from her daughter's killer.

Without Sin

2022

The Body Farm poster
5.8

Crime drama series following Eve Lockhart, one of Britain's leading forensic pathologists, and her team of scientists at a state-of-the-art forensic research facility.

The Body Farm

2011

I Am... poster
5.7

Each hour-long film follows a different woman as they experience "moments that are emotionally raw, thought-provoking and utterly personal".

I Am...

2019

Soccer Aid poster
7.3

Soccer Aid is a biennial British charity event that has raised £6.5 million in aid of UNICEF UK through ticket sales and donations. The event is a football match between two teams of celebrities and former professional players, representing England and the Rest of the World. Television coverage began on ITV on 22 May 2006 in a show presented by Ant & Dec. Soccer Aid was initiated by Robbie Williams and Jonathan Wilkes. The event returned on 7 September 2008 and again on 6 June 2010. England beat Rest of the World in 2012.

Soccer Aid

2006

This Is England '90 poster
7.9

Shaun, Harvey, Gadget, Trev and Kelly hit up the nightlife of raves and ecstasy. Woody and Lol are happy, living together with their kids and Combo is still in prison. But things slowly change. This is the year 1990 and This is England.

This Is England '90

2015

Five Daughters poster
6.4

The stories of five young women who were tragically murdered in Ipswich in 2006.

Five Daughters

2010

True Love poster
7.0

A five-part series of intertwining, semi-improvised love stories exploring the reality of love in the modern world.

True Love

2012

The Replacement poster
6.3

A woman who goes on maternity leave becomes increasingly paranoid about the motives of the person covering for her.

The Replacement

2017

The Secret Agent poster
5.8

London, 1886. Unbeknownst to his loyal wife Winnie, Verloc, a Soho store owner, works as a secret agent for a powerful foreign government.

The Secret Agent

2016

This Is England '88 poster
7.5

Set during Christmas 1988, Lol is haunted by the devastating events that took place two and a half years before. She and Woody both find themselves struggling to cope with their lives without each other after he leaves the gang. Lol is carrying the burden of her guilt, whilst Woody is trying to build a domestic life with a new girlfriend and a potential promotion at work. Shaun has started drama college and, although still in a relationship with Smell, he has grown close to a girl performing in his Christmas play.

This Is England '88

2011

Action Team poster
5.6

Explosive comedy Action Team follows the exploits of a top-secret team of special agents charged with saving the world.

Action Team

2018

Britain's Murder Map with Vicky McClure and Jonny Owen poster
NR

Vicky McClure, and her historian husband, Jonny Owen, travel the UK exploring historic, culturally significant crimes that have changed the face of modern Britain. From unsolved murders, to miscarriages of justice that have changed the law; each episode features Vicky and Jonny doing a deep dive into each case. Speaking to experts, historians, police officers and victims’ families, they investigate the lasting impact each murder has left on the community and why these cases still resonate today.

Britain's Murder Map with Vicky McClure and Jonny Owen

2026

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NR

BAFTA-winning actor Vicky McClure takes us on a deeply personal journey to discover the true extent of music's power in the fight against dementia.

Our Dementia Choir with Vicky McClure

2019