AN Ally McBeal star has barely aged a day 23 years after the hit show ended – ahead of a new role in BBC drama Dope Girls.
Dope Girls follows female gangs as they run the illicit drugs trade and London‘s nightclubs after the World War I.
An Ally McBeal star has barely aged a day 23 years after the hit show ended – ahead of a new role in BBC drama Dope Girls[/caption]
Julianne Nicholson played Jenny Shaw in series five of Ally McBeal[/caption]
She plays the lead role of Kate Galloway in new BBC drama, Dope Girls[/caption]
One of the lead characters is called Kate Galloway, who moves to London after suffering a tragedy, but ends up with blood on her hands after a fateful night in the capital.
Kate is played by actress Julianne Nicholson, and she may look familiar to some TV viewers.
Julianne, 53, played Jenny Shaw in hit drama Ally McBeal from 2001 to 2002 across series five.
But despite the show ending 23 years ago, Julianne looks virtually the same with her short dark hair and youthful looks.
Speaking about her role in the lavish new BBC drama – that cost £20m to make – she said: “Kate definitely is enticed by the club world once she pokes her nose into it.
“I think it starts off with the intention of providing for her daughters, but I think it very quickly turns into something she enjoys.
“The power that comes with that and the life and the colour that comes with mixing with these people in this world.”
The actress also recalled her favourite scene to film for the series, saying: “The biggest scenes were the scenes that we filmed in Trafalgar Square in the fountain, because I had never worked on a volume stage before. It’s like being on a big iMax screen.
“And you’re seeing this whole world playing out, but depending on where you’re filming and where you are in Trafalgar Square, those images change.
“To be sitting in the fountain in Trafalgar Square in 1918 surrounded by people who are celebrating the end of the war in a really debaucherous way – it was a very surreal and exciting moment that I had never pictured for myself.”
Since her time on Ally McBeal, Julianne has starred in a number of TV shows including Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Boardwalk Empire, Masters of Sex and Mare of Easttown.
Meanwhile, the Dope Girls cast also stars Eliza Scanlen, Dustin Demri-Burns, Geraldine James and Fiona Button.
The dark six-part series is based on Marek Kohn’s 1992 book Dope Girls: The Birth of the British Drug Underground
Dope Girls starts tonight at 9.15pm on BBC One.
