Vicky McClure's off-screen life with famous husband and 'distressing' family experience that turned her into campaigner

Vicky McClure's become a massive star following her stint in Line Of Duty, and the Bafta award-winning programme is much-missed. But the Nottingham-born actor turns up in lots of TV hits.

Tonight (Thursday), she is the featured star on BBC One's Who Do You Think You Are?, which, as usual, gets emotional and unusual in its exposure of her antecedents. In tonight's programme, Vicky tried to find out why her paternal grandmother Nonna Jean was given up by her family when she was a child.

The 41 year old also looks into the background of her mother's grandfather Harry Millership, who died in a Japanese PoW camp in the Second World War. But that's enough about her family history - here's the story of her family now.

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Read on for more about Vicky McClure, her famous husband and the family experience which has turned her into a campaigner.

Vicky's long-term partner - now husband - is Welsh film producer and actor Jonny Owen. The 53-year-old from Merthyr Tydfi embarked on his acting career when he was a student at Swansea University.

He later went on to appear in some of the UK’s biggest TV shows, including Shameless, Torchwood, Murphy’s Law, and My Family. In 2006, Jonny was awarded a BAFTA Cymru for his documentary on the Aberfan disaster which he co-produced.

An avid football fan, he directed the critically acclaimed 2017 documentary film Don’t Take Me Home, which chronicled Wales' run to the semi-finals of Euro 2016 and a memorable summer for Wales fans in France. He also directed the 2015 film I Believe in Miracles, chronicling Nottingham Forest's glory years under Brian Clough in the 1970s and 80s.

The couple met on the