Sean Gallagher

Sean Gallagher (b. 2 September 1965 in Luton, Bedfordshire UK) is a British actor that portrayed Chip in New Earth. From 1992 he has appeared in many television series and films.

Sean recently finished performing in "The Black Album" at the Cottelsloe Theatre/National Theatre in London, South Bank and started a national UK tour with the cast throughout the UK in October/November 2009.

He has also recently voiced one of the characters in "The Happy Prince," a stop-animation film, produced by Skatedog Films Ltd and directed by John Horabin in 2009. This newly-released adaptation of the classic Oscar Wilde short story was featured at the BFI in London in Autumn 2009.

In late summer 2006 Gallagher signed up to Coronation Street to play the part of Paul Connor, one of two brothers buying a share in Underworld, the local knicker factory.

In June 2007, Gallagher left the ITV soap to pursue other projects.

On, it was announced that Gallagher was cast for the lead role of Mal Faith in a new ITV drama series, Rock Rivals, produced by Shed Productions. He starred alongside former EastEnders actress, Michelle Collins, who played his wife, Karina Faith.

He appeared in a production of Mary Stuart for the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh with David Oakes and Penny Layden.

In February 2008, Attitude Magazine UK featured an article on Sean Gallagher stating that he was gay. There have been no records of Sean being "engaged" to anyone. Gallagher has a 22 year old daughter from a previous relationship, Rhona Bonnar, who appeared as his character's 9 year old daughter in the 1996 film "La Passione".

Sean was to be the character Frank Gallagher in the Channel 4 drama, Shameless. The scenes including Sean as Frank, however, were re-shot at the cost of £100,000, because it was thought that he was too young to play Frank Gallagher, and so the part was given to David Threlfall.

Gallagher worked at Stanley's Casino in Luton and honed his skills as a croupier in order to assist with drama school tuition.