She has portrayed Deborah "Debbie" Gallagher on Shameless, a role she has played from 2011 to 2021, and Harris Conner-Healy in the tenth season of the family sitcom Roseanne, and its spin-off continuation The Conners. His father and brothers tried to help by offering to be sperm donors for Kelly, but she refused. Reminded of her own past as sole parental guidance for her other siblings, as well as overhearing Lip Gallagher (Jody Latham) talk about the mistreatment her younger siblings will receive once Monica gets over the aborted child, Fiona plots to snatch Stella and Ben to free them of the lifestyle she and her younger siblings went through. He appeared in 136 episodes in total. Rebecca, 18, started playing Debbie in 2004 and has seen her character progress from. However, she is enraged to discover her mother attempted to abort twins, leaving oneBenalive. In series 7, Frank falls for a librarian named Libby Croker (Pauline McLynn). Chesney flees the store, leaving his unconscious father to die for real from smoke inhalation. Overall, Esther appeared in 10 episodes. He tells her that he threw Bruce out for spending all his time smoking dope, and he's stunned to learn Bruce is gay. After circulating false rumours of sightings around the Chatsworth Estate for much of the day, Debbie emerges as the hero of the hour when she returns the boy to his distressed family. This came sudden and was unknown where they were until the TV report. She's particularly protective of and very close to her younger brother Liam. Karen assumed that his courtship of her was part of this pretence, but Jamie claimed that he really loved her and they were married at the end of the episode. Maxine moves in with Micky and Ian. Debbie and Liam had such a strong bond with each other, that she would frequently use his help in various activities. As a consequence, Debbie missed out on socialising and has become mature beyond her years. Frank's hallmarks are drunken rants on a wide variety of literary, historical and philosophical subjects, usually returning to how decent, hard-working people, among whom he erroneously seems to count himself, are discriminated against. Ian shows up at hospital soon after Carl and Maxine talk, and he and Maxine smile at each other, and they reconcile. He later cheats on Karen with Gloria Meak (Angeline Ball). The rest of her family generally recognises all she does for them. Joe briefly became friends with Mandy's older brother Jamie Maguire (Aaron McCusker), and took advantage of his turbulent relationship with Jamie's wife, Karen Maguire (Rebecca Atkinson), and had sex with her twice. In the last episode of series 5, Frank goes into a coma and dreams of his unusual family, where Monica still has her physical body, but the mental state of Sheila, in which Frank refers to her as Sheila-Monica. Her friends were really cringe. Paddy was so ashamed of his actions that he was willing to inject himself with heroin at Shane's request, but Shane stopped him at the last minute. Yvonne Toni-Marie Karib (born 1 April 1965) was married to Kash Karib (Chris Bisson), with whom she has two children, Chesney (Qasim Akhtar) and Meena (Sarah Byrne). Unlike Fiona, Lip, Ian and Carl, Debbie admires him and often shows her love for him, often seen to be the most affected when he is in danger or trouble. For example, when he and his family enter the local pub, The Jockey, the customers sitting at the table beside the entrance clear the seat for them. He used to work at The Jockey as a barman but in more recent series his employment, if he has any, has not been shown. He is still neglectful to his sole child who shows great maturity for her age, and is shown to be thoughtful and caring to him still calling him "Dad". However, in more recent series, Paddy has begun to show a more compassionate side, and since series four, he has also become much more accepting of Lip, as well as Karen Jackson (Rebecca Atkinson), the wife of his oldest son Jamie (Aaron McCusker). In Season 1, Debbie is a humble person and is very persistent. Frank's father shows extreme sympathy towards Sheila and even takes care of the twins. Patreesha appeared in 9 episodes in total. Sheila appeared in 28 episodes in total. In spite of the remaining tensions, Ian and Maxine become a couple. Frank and her mother soon set up a mutual loathing society, with Frank painting her bedroom a bright yellow just to keep her awake. Out of desperation, she shoots Jonty dead in front of Frank and willingly goes to prison for it. Initially Sue is reluctant but later saves the baby from being sent back by the police. Billy is often portrayed as unreliable and childish; therefore mocked by most of the Chatsworth community. A guilty Frank later finds Stella and Ben at a local park, he tries to apologize for his harsh behavior and after a series of events, he confirms that he does love her, much to her joy. He is named after the singer of the same name. The same when Frank told them Lip was an alcholic. Liam completely misinterprets Reggie's reasons, and flees the house. Mary-Mae St. Rose is introduced as the daughter of Patreesha St. Rose (Jacqueline Boatswain), the sister of established character Avril Powell (Karen Bryson). In the tenth series, after discovering that his children are still alive, Marty left Chatsworth to find them. Although not previously mentioned, she is meant to be a previously unseen resident in Chatsworth. Kev is illiterate. She views her siblings as her dependants and generally supports them through their various misadventures. Shameless fans said goodbye to the Gallaghers on April 11, 2021. But over course of the next nine seasons, Shameless fans get to witness the ups and downs that Ian Gallagher goes through, in exploring his sexuality and admitting that he is gay to the people around him. In the first episode of series five he returns to the estate during his university break to see Mandy and Katie. As series 8 begins, Jamie is in counseling with Karen who has returned with their son. She and Shane have also actively dealt in personal side jobs in addition to the normal Maguire family business.[14]. by . (Michael Taylor previously co-starred alongside fellow Shameless Alumni Kelli Hollis and Qasim Akhtar in the 2005 film Mischief Night. Kev's marriage to Veronica Fisher (Maxine Peake) is legally invalid because he never got a divorce from his first wife, Roxy (Jill Halfpenny), who Kev left because of domestic violence. Beginning in the fourth series, Ian has a number of relationships with women. Sheila suffers from agoraphobia and is a fan of daytime television, especially Countdown, finding it unbelievable that someone doesn't know who Carol Vorderman or Richard Whiteley are. Despite showing open contempt for higher education, Paddy has occasionally shown knowledge of certain literary subjects. Jessie McQueen, better known as Jez was the landlady of The Jockey on the Chatsworth estate during the first four series. Meanwhile, Monica Frank's oldest daughter, Fiona McBride (Anne-Marie Duff), returns to Chatsworth with Carl and Lip. Despite this, Holly wanted to continue the relationship, but her comments against Frank hurt Liam's feelings, and cause him to leave with Frank. As of the fourth series, Lillian has become more involved in the dramas around Chatsworth, even featuring in some of them herself, she serves as the comic relief of the show appearing in many after-credit snippets. Frank also makes amends with his oldest children who have new respect for him. Ian feels ashamed that he did nothing to help her, and he confronts Jimmy in an attempt to tape a confession. Despite suffering at Joe's hands, Mandy still retains feelings for him, and resented Jamie's intervention, Danny (Ian's new roommate) gives her a word of advice after he tells her he loves her, which makes her reconsider and then Frank Gallagher (David Threlfall) brings up Katie eventually finding out which makes her decide to break it off with him only for Joe to blackmail her into staying with him, Joe's recovery, Mandy has decided to give him another chance, much to the chagrin of the rest of the Maguires, only for them to make supplemental threats to him, Jamie (cutting his head off), Paddy (shooting him), Shane and Micky (pissing on grapes), Kelly (Sally Carman) (injecting him) and Karen (threatening to tell them that he abusing Mandy (when he isn't), if Joe threatens to tell Jamie of their affair). She has appeared in a recurring role since May 2008, and appeared on a regular basis in the eleventh and final series. She's particularly protective of and very close to her younger brother Liam. Katie flees when Lip is beaten up in an alleyway, and shortly after this, Lip and Katie leave Chatsworth again to continue their lives as before. Micky told Ian that he'd felt like a freak before he'd had Ian to look up to, and now Ian had taken that away. Gloria appeared in 20 episodes in total. He was born in The Jockey. In the fourth episode of Series 7, Kelly has sex with Paddy in exchange for money, after Paddy found it hard to "pull" on a night out with his sons. During series 1 he was in a relationship with schoolmate Karen Jackson (Rebecca Atkinson), who dumps him for his own father Frank Gallagher (David Threlfall), causing him to batter Frank in the middle of the street in a rage. Mandy and Jamie's mother, Mimi (Tina Malone), claimed to be responsible for attacking Joe, and was sentenced to two months imprisonment. In the fifth episode, just before Frank and Libby's wedding, Carl reads a best man's speech written by Liam, which turns out to be a personal message from him. Given his academic performance, the school determines Liam to be an exceptionally gifted pupil, which leads to him being awarded a special scholarship. They had their impromptu civil ceremony at The Jockey. She shaved Liam's head, and told the school administrators that her little brother had cancer. She meets back up with Jamie at the Jockey, where he gives everyone 30 seconds for people to say whatever they like to her, before they accept that she's his wife and he won't allow it to continue. 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