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Brian Milligan stars as Terry Gilmore in ITV’s Marcella series

He's acted alongside the likes of Michelle Fairley and Daniel Day-Lewis

Brian Milligan plays Terry Gilmore in Marcella, but have you wondered where you recognise him from?

The ITV drama returned to screens recently for its third series, with Brian featuring alongside stars Anna Friel, Ray Panthaki, Amanda Burton and others.

Read on to find out more about the actor.

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Brian plays Terry in ITV’s Marcella (Credit: ITV)

Who is Brian Milligan, who plays Terry in Marcella?

Brian is a Northern Irish actor.

He grew up in Belfast and took his first acting steps at the city’s Lagan College.

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While there, he auditioned for Safe and Sound, a six-part BBC series starring Games Of Thrones actress Michelle Fairley.

Speaking about that role, he told Belfast Telegraph: “I was asked to stay behind one day in school and I thought I was in trouble as usual.

It turned out to be a letter about the auditions for Safe and Sound in the city centre.

“Then I was handed an envelope which I thought was my suspension.”

He added: “But it turned out to be a letter about the auditions for Safe and Sound in the city centre.”

He went on to get the part, and from there acted at London’s National Theatre, in a play called Sunnyside and another called Dog House.

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His character is a cop in the crime drama (Credit: ITV)

What other TV shows and films has Brian Milligan been in?

Brian’s first big break was the 1997 film The Boxer, starring Daniel Day-Lewis as a former IRA man turned boxer.

Brian played a character called Ned.

After that, he was in the films Hunger (2008) and Leap Year (2010).

Brian has also been in numerous TV shows.

He was in the Sky thriller Strike Back and the BBC crime drama The Fall.

Brian’s role in The Fall

That show followed a detective desperate to catch a serial killer hiding in plain sight.

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Brian’s character, James ‘Jimmy’

Brian Milligan acting in Marcella


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