Nicholas McGaughey is a

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and

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best known for playing the character of Brandon Monk in the Welsh soap ''

Pobol y Cwm ''Pobol y Cwm'' (''People of the Valley''; ) is a Welsh-language soap opera produced by the BBC since October 1974. The longest-running television soap opera produced by the BBC, ''Pobol y Cwm'' was originally transmitted on BBC Cymru (now B ...

''. He has appeared on a number of top British television programmes such as ''

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'' in 1998. He also appeared as Praetorian Officer in the 2000 Hollywood blockbuster, ''

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'', among actors such as

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and

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. He also appeared in ''

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'' in 1995 from the TV series '' Sharpe'' starring

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. He appeared in various TV Series including ''War and Peace'' (2016) as Self Important Major, ''Da Vinci’s Demons'' (2014) as Captain Sindona and also the same year in ''Musketeers'' "Friends and Enemies" as Innkeeper. He also appeared in ''Agatha Christie’s Poirot'' "The Labours of Hercules" in 2013 as Inspector Lementeuil. Also in 2013 he appeared in ''Atlantis'' "Twist if Fate" as Biton, ''Whitechapel'' as Derek Redman and ''New Tricks'' as Coxy. He appeared on the Welsh television series ''Pobol y Cwm'' in the role of Brandon Monk from 2002 to 2011. His character was killed off on 23 September 2011 after suffering a heart attack in hospital following the fire in the flat above the chip shop (Y Sosban Chips.) McGaughey is also a published writer of poetry and short fiction. His poem "Magic Hour" was performed at

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, Wales, at dusk as part of the 21 December 2017 Solstice Shorts Festival and published in the 2018 anthology Dusk from Arachne Press.

Filmography

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* Welsh male television actors Welsh male soap opera actors Living people People from Morriston Male actors from Portsmouth Year of birth missing (living people) Writers from Swansea {{UK-tv-actor-stub