Inside Unforgotten’s Sinead Keenan’s famous family – from EastEnders husband to Peaky Blinders brother
UNFORGOTTEN was last seen on air in 2023 but the brand new sixth series returned to our screens this week.
The episode saw Sinéad Keenan and Sanjeev Bhaskar both returning as their characters DI Khan and DCI James as they investigate cold cases and unsolved crimes from the past.
Like previous seasons of the hit ITV drama, viewers can expect grisly murders and complex storylines as the pair work closely to uncover the secrets of the past.
Sinéad, 47, is an Irish actress, who is also recognised for her roles as Farrah Phelan in Fair City and werewolf Nina Pickering in Being Human.
However, what viewers might not realise is that Sinead didn't start of wanting to be an actor.
The 46 year old who was born and raised in Dublin, and the eldest of three children, instead wanted to be a lawyer.
Unforgotten
She attended University and graduated with a degree in sociology and history.
As a child, she loved the US legal drama Matlock, but as she got older she realised that she actually just wanted to play the part of the lawyer, not be one.
Earlier career
Her first role was in 1999, when she was cast as the teenage girlfriend of Cillian Murphy in the film, Sunburn.
After this, she played the character Farrah Phelan in Irish soap Fair City for a year.
She left Fair City amid fears of becoming type-cast and moved on to film the movie On the Nose with Cracker actor Robbie Coltrane.
Her next television role was as Lisa Cassidy in short-lived Irish sitcom The Cassidys.
She then appeared in numerous tv hits including Murder City, Taggart and Doctors, before landing the role of Kelly Hawkins in ITV's Moving Wallpaper.
Following this, the actress played Nina Pickering in Being Human and had guest roles in Agatha Christie's Poirot, Silent Witness, and David Tennant's final episodes of the science fiction show Doctor Who.
In 2021, she starred in the two-part BBC One drama Three Families, which focused on abortion in Northern Ireland.
Famous siblings
She also appeared in the Martin Freeman comedy Breeders and starred alongside her sister Sinead in Unforgotten as her on screen sister Debbie.
Their brother Rory has also worked extensively in theatre and film and had roles in Peaky Blinders, War & Peace, Birdsong, and The Guard.
He is married to actor Gemma Arterton who portrayed Bond Girl Strawberry Fields in the James Bond film Quantum of Solace and spy Pollyana Wilkins / Agent Galahad in the action war film The King's Man.
Meet Cute
Sinéad met her husband, TV director Chris McGill, twenty years ago in a lovely meet-cute that could have come right out of a rom-com movie.
They were in a Royal Shakespeare Company production in Stratford-Upon-Avon.
‘We were in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. I was playing Hermia; he was playing a fairy! He was the understudy Lysander to my Hermia,’ she told
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Chris has worked with stars like Tom Hiddleston and Jude Law, and he's directed many episodes of EastEnders and Holby City.
The couple now live in Shakespeare’s hometown with their two young sons