Vicky McClure

Vicky McClure is an English actress and presenter known for playing Lol Jenkins in Shane Meadows's This Is England (2006) and its television sequels. Born in the Wollaton area of Nottingham, she trained at the Central Junior Television Workshop, where Samantha Morton mentored her. At fifteen she won the part of Ladine in Meadows's A Room for Romeo Brass, though steady work did not follow immediately. Her performance as Lol in This Is England '86 earned her both a British Academy Television Award and a Royal Television Society Award in 2011. She went on to play Detective Inspector Kate Fleming in Line of Duty from 2012 and a bomb disposal expert in Trigger Point from 2022. Her other credits include Filth and Wisdom (2008), Hummingbird (2013), Svengali (2013) and The Replacement (2017), along with a stage debut in Touched at Nottingham Playhouse in 2017.