Charlene Mckenna

Charlene Lee McKenna is an Irish actress known for her work on Irish and British television. She first became well known in Ireland as Jennifer Jackson in the miniseries Pure Mule (2005). Charlene McKenna went nude in Ripper Street in 2012, and later in Sirens and Clean Sweep (2023). She was born on March 26, 1984, in Glaslough, County Monaghan, Ireland. Her role in Raw won her Best Actress (Television) at the Irish Film & Television Awards. She also won a Monte Carlo Television Festival award for the miniseries Whistleblower in 2008. On British TV she played Rose Erskine in Ripper Street and Leah Liebermann in Vienna Blood. She later joined Peaky Blinders as Laura McKee and played DS Niamh McGovern in Bloodlands.