icky McClure, who has turn out to be a family title within the UK following a collection of high-octane TV roles, has been made an MBE within the King’s Birthday Honours for providers to drama and to charity.

The Nottingham-born actress, 40, is probably finest recognized for her starring position within the BBC’s Line Of Duty, though has gained additional recognition outdoors performing for her charity work.

McClure is a vocal advocate for the Alzheimer’s Society, of which she is an envoy, and has raised consciousness across the illness by way of her creation of Our Dementia Choir.

McClure first got here to nationwide consideration after showing within the 2006 skinhead-drama movie This Is England, through which she performed the a part of the cool and easy-going Lol Jenkins.

The position, which she reprised for a number of TV follow-up collection, gained her crucial acclaim and a number of other award nominations and wins – together with from the Royal Television Society and Bafta.

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The This Is England franchise ran for a number of collection, ending in 2015 with This Is England ‘90.

By this time, McClure had already begun her most recognisable role as DCI Kate Fleming, alongside Martin Compston, on Line Of Duty.

The show, which has run for six series, has been another critical success for the actress and garnered her further nominations.

She was nominated for a Bafta Television award for best supporting actress in 2015, and a National Television Award for drama performance in 2021.

McClure has maintained a close friendship with Compston, and the pair recently went head-to-head in the 2023 charity Soccer Aid match for Unicef – which saw defeat for her England side for the fifth year running.

The actress has been involved with UK charity the Alzheimer’s Society for a few years, having participated within the organisation’s annual charity stroll, and changing into an envoy in 2018.

In 2019, she began Nottingham-based Our Dementia Choir, after her late grandmother Iris’s analysis of Alzheimer’s taught her the therapeutic energy of music.

A BBC documentary to lift consciousness of the illness culminated within the group’s efficiency in entrance of two,000 individuals at Nottingham’s Royal Concert Hall, and McClure later revisited the choir in 2020 to discover the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic on them.

In August 2022 she was additional recognised for her work with the choir by being made an honorary Doctorate of Letters by the University of Nottingham – describing it as “my personally proudest day to date”.

“To be awarded a Doctor of Letters at the University of Nottingham, just 10 minutes from my house, the place where Our Dementia Choir was formed, among so much esteemed intellect, creative minds and excellence in your fields, this is for sure my personally proudest day to date,” she stated throughout her acceptance speech.

“I didn’t get many GCSEs, I’m not the quickest reader but I love people, they give me purpose, this doctorate gives me purpose and if there is any advice I can give to you all today… it’s service.

“Service to others. The world is a difficult place to navigate and for those living with dementia and other life altering illnesses we must do our bit.”