On Netflix’s Bridgerton, Irish actress Nicola Coughlan plays Penelope “Pen” Featherington, an intelligent young woman who was born into a family who doesn’t understand her. But IRL, Coughlan, 37, seems far less reserved than her character on the show—and just as delightful.

Nicola Coughlan said she would spontaneously burst into tears while balancing filming schedules for Bridgerton and Big Mood. “I’d film one show during the week, the other on the weekend,” Coughlan told AP Entertainment.

It was a Big Mood. Nicola Coughlan, the current star of the Shonda Rhimes hit “Bridgerton,” would often cry on set from exhaustion. The reason? She was simultaneously filming the comedy series “Big Mood.

Nicola’s Real Age Has Everyone SHOCKED! As anticipation builds for the upcoming return of Netflix’s period drama Bridgerton, fans have been taken aback by the revelation that actress Nicola Coughlan,