Derry Girls’ Louisa Harland Lands New Role In Disney+ Show

Pic: Aidan Monaghan/Hat Trick via Channel 4

Derry Girls has launched the careers of the young actors like Nicola Coughlan and Saoirse Monica Jackson – and now Louisa Harland, who played the lovable Orla McCool on the show, has landed a new role. And it’s very different from the step aerobics fan!

Louisa will take on the lead role in the upcoming Disney+ show Renegade Nell.

Nell is a quick-witted and courageous young woman who finds herself framed for murder and unexpectedly becomes the most notorious highwaywoman in 18th-century England.

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Okay, sounds immediately intriguing!

Things take a turn when a magical spirit called Billy Blind, played by Nick Mohammed (Ted Lasso), appears, Nell realises her destiny is bigger than she ever imagined. 

Frank Dillane (The Essex Serpent, Fear the Walking Dead) plays Nell’s fickle friend and sometime adversary Charles Devereux, a charming rogue with a dangerous, villainous alter ego.

Adrian Lester (Trigger Point, Mary Queen of Scots) plays the Earl of Poynton, a master political schemer and manipulator who joins forces against Nell with Sofia Wilmot, played by Alice Kremelberg (The Sinner), a young widow who wants power and independence at any cost.

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 Joely Richardson (Nip/Tuck) plays eccentric newspaper magnate Lady Eularia Moggerhanger, whilst Pip Torrens (The Crown, Poldark) appears as Lord Blancheford – the father of Sofia and her feckless, bullying brother Thomas, who is played by Jake Dunn (Half Bad).

Ényì Okoronkwo (The Lazarus Project) also stars as Rasselas, a spirited stable boy who joins Nell and her sisters on the run in his own bid for freedom, with newcomers Bo Bragason and Florence Keen as Nell’s two younger sisters Roxy and George, and Craig Parkinson (Line of Duty, Black Mirror: Bandersnatch) as Nell’s kind-hearted father Sam.

The series will comprise of eight episodes to sink your teeth into.

While we don’t have a date on when the show comes out, we do know that it will hit our screens in the springtime!

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