Who stars in Normal People

As well as Edgar-Jones and Mescal, the Normal People cast also boasts the talents of Eliot Salt as Joanna, Desmond Eastwood as Niall, and India Mullen as Peggy. Also in the cast are Dublin Murders star Sarah Greene as Connell’s mother, and Outlander’s Aislín McGuckin as Marianne’s mother.

Fans of the book will be delighted to learn that Rooney co-wrote six of the episodes alongside Alice Birch and Mark O’Rowe, and has an executive-producer credit.

Rooney was involved in all the early discussions about how many episodes, the format, conversations about actors, as well as reading various versions of the script,” producer Ed Guiney told The Guardian.

“She contributed to them all; it was a full-blooded engagement.”

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