Vicky McClure: from Dorothy Perkins to Line of Duty

The popular actor is back on our screens in new ITV crime drama Trigger Point 

Line of Duty and Trigger Point star Vicky McClure
Line of Duty and Trigger Point star Vicky McClure
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Thanks to the phenomenal success of the BBC drama Line of Duty, Vicky McClure is one of the UK’s most watched actors, says Terri White in The Guardian. Yet there was a point when she almost gave up on the career she’d dreamt of since childhood.

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