They're the Chatsworth Estate's most colourful characters! Welcome to their strange world:
FRANK GALLAGHER (David Threlfall)
Age 42. Roaring drunk, colourful, angry and self-pitying, Frank's the biggest kid of the family.
FIONA GALLAGHER (Anne-Marie Duff)
Age 20. The feisty eldest sister, she’s bright, sassy and craving a bit of adventure in her life.
LIP GALLAGHER (Jody Latham)
Age 16. Mouthy, adolescent and extremely intelligent – a dangerous combination. Lip has two obsessions – to lose his virginity and to escape the Chatsworth Estate.
STEVE (James McAvoy)
Age 23. Cool, handsome, charming, with a steady job (car thief). Once a medical student, he comes from a nice middle-class background.
IAN GALLAGHER (Gerard Kearns)
Age 15. Keeps his private life very private - you don’t let on you’re gay on the Chatsworth Estate.
VERONICA (Maxine Peake)
Age 30. She’s the Gallagher’s neighbour and Fiona’s best mate. Calls herself a nurse but was actually a cleaner in the local hospital.
KEV (Dean Lennox Kelly)
Age 33. Good old dependable Kev is Veronica’s long-term boyfriend. He works in the local pub, loves Veronica and keeps getting embroiled in the Gallagher’s scams.
SHEILA JACKSON (Maggie O’Neill)
Age 39. Having not left her house for years, agoraphobic Sheila lives in a prescription-drug fog. After an unhappy, sexless marriage it takes Frank to get her going again.
KASH (Chris Bisson)
Age 35. Runs the local mini mart. Kash is a hard-working, married, Muslim father of two. And he’s having a love affair with his under-age shop assistant.
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