Nichola McAuliffe was born on 27 August 1955 and is an English television and stage actress and writer, best known for her role as Sheila Sabatini in the ITV hospital sitcom Surgical Spirit.
17 Facts About Nichola McAuliffe
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Nichola McAuliffe has starred in several stage musicals and won the 1988 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her role in Kiss Me, Kate.
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Between 1989 and 1995, Nichola McAuliffe starred as obstreperous surgeon Sheila Sabatini in the ITV sitcom Surgical Spirit, her most high-profile acting role to date.
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Nichola McAuliffe appeared in the long-running soap opera Coronation Street between 2001 and 2002.
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Nichola McAuliffe has had a number of stage roles, and was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 1988 for Best Actress in a Musical for Kiss Me, Kate.
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Nichola McAuliffe appeared as the evil Baroness Bomburst in the West End production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the London Palladium, and was nominated for a 2003 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role or Musical of 2002 for her performance in the production.
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In 2009, Nichola McAuliffe appeared as the Wicked Fairy at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, in Sleeping Beauty, alongside Sarah-Jane Honeywell and Shane Lynch.
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In 2011, Nichola McAuliffe played Miss Shepherd in The Lady in the Van at Hull Truck Theatre.
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Nichola McAuliffe subsequently wrote and appeared in a comic play, Maurice's Jubilee, staged at The Pleasance, which tells the story of an elderly man at the end of his life who is preparing to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.
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In film, Nichola McAuliffe provided the voice of James Bond's BMW in the 1997 film Tomorrow Never Dies.
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Nichola McAuliffe appeared in the Radio 2 comedy series The News Huddlines.
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In 2014, McAuliffe appeared as Maria Borrow in the Sky1 television film television film adaptation of the M C Beaton novel Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death.
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In 2022, Nichola McAuliffe appeared as Black Eyed Mog in the BBC production of The English.
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Nichola McAuliffe played Brenda Collins, the mother of the recently deceased Debbie Colwell who had been in a coma, prior to being murdered by her husband Reiss Colwell, in the BBC soap opera EastEnders in 2024.
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Nichola McAuliffe is an occasional contributor to newspapers such as the Daily Mail.
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Nichola McAuliffe married Don MacKay, a crime reporter for the Daily Mirror, in 1996.
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Nichola McAuliffe is a patron of Saving Faces, the facial surgery research foundation; and of Action for Children's Arts, an organisation dedicated to the promotion of creative arts among children under 12.