Derry Girls Season 3 2022: Who’s who in cast of characters
It’s been three years since the show last aired back in 2019 and Season 3 will see all the main stars return for the third and final season.
The first episode of Derry Girls Season 3 airs on Channel 4 on Tuesday, April 12 at 9.15pm.
(Pictures: Channel 4, please note not for sale here)
(Pictures: Channel 4, please note not for sale here)
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Sarah McCool aka Aunt Sarah (played by Kathy Kiera Clarke) is younger sister/ half board resident at the kitchen table of Ma Mary Quinn. In a city renowned for its well turned out populace, she is an expert on all things health and beauty related. Sarah always looks her best and is a frequent visitor to hair, beauty and tanning salons as well as being a serial flicker of the perennial Derry favourite, the Avon catalogue. Innocent and charming, she relies on her big sister as the sorter outer of all things domestic and real world problems but has her ear close to the ground and knows all the gossip about everyone in Derry. She is also a doting and extremely proud mother, raising her daughter Orla with a big dollop of help from Mary, Gerry and Granda Joe. Claims to fame include: Appearance on UTV news with Uncle Colm, upstaging brides, objective fashion critiquing everyone from politicians on the news to her father's new fancy woman, Maeve of 'cream horn gate'. Picture: Channel 4.
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Da Gerry Quinn. Poor Gerry (played by Tommy Tiernan) just cannot catch a break. While wife Mary is the matriarch, Gerry has little chance of being the man of the house while his less than impressed father-in-law Granda Joe is around. Barely tolerated by his Derry to the core elder, southerner Gerry shares quite a bit in common with James in terms of being the outsider low down in the pecking order and bearing the brunt of the tongue lashings meted out by the others. And yet he is handy for a lift and bringing an admittedly little heeded voice of reason to the chaos and madness of the Quinn household (surely no family needs seven bags of chips). Gerry has however some surprising skills and is perhaps the best sandwich maker in the north west and a bit of a saint for putting up with it all.
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Granda Joe (played by Ian McElhinney of Game of Thrones fame as Ser Barristan Selmy) is a widower and patriarch of the the family, father to Mary and Sarah and brother to uncle Colm as well as the much loved granda of Erin, Orla and the wee baby. An authority on all matter of things, and a man who knows people, he has never quite accepted his eldest's daughter's choice of husband, making sure Gerry Quinn knows his place at every turn with a series of hilarious put downs. Pursuer of US presidents and partial to funny scones, his chance at romance with Maeve was thwarted when the infamous Derry grapevine exposed his out of character choice of buns at the bakery, with hawk-eye big Shay spotting a cream horn being bagged up. A great character, opinionated Grand Joe is the alpha who encapsulates the essence of the Derry da. (Picture Channel 4)
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Jenny Joyce (Leah O'Rourke) pictured her with her sidekick Aisling (Beccy Henderson) is basically the model student and rich kid everyone loved to hate at school. A rarity in Derry, Jenny comes from a wealthy family with a grand home and is spoiled rotten. Jennifer is the composer of woeful school assembly songs which she ropes others in to helping her perform and inflict on the rest of the pupils, and leader of the school goodie two shoes pack. She looks down on Erin, Michelle & Co. and exchanges insults which often sees her outwitted. Cue some hilarious plait flicking and storming off to snitch to a not-interested in the slightest Sister Michael. Poor Aisling, whose incredible voice is often drowned out by Jenny's warbling in duets, is destined to a life sentence of brutally dull get togethers at Jenny's house unless she stands up to her domineering friend as she did in the last episode of Season 2. Fantastic foil to the main characters. (Photo: Channel 4)