Peaky Blinders star gives birth to baby girl and reveals adorable name
Peaky Blinders actress Charlene McKenna has given birth to a baby girl, who she and husband Adam Rothenberg have named Maggie.
Charlene McKenna has given birth to a baby girl.
The Peaky Blinders actress - who portrayed Laura McKee in series five and six of the BBC show - took to social media to reveal her newborn daughter is called Maggie.
Charlene posted several snaps on Instagram as part of a life update, and she wrote in the caption: "It’s been a minute…. Been making movies and memories and Maggie's."
Charlene's news comes after she had kept her pregnancy under wraps.
The star also has a two-year-old daughter Martha with her husband and Ripper Street co-star Adam Rothenberg.
In 2024, Charlene revealed she had secretly welcomed her first child with Adam in March that year.
She told Kay Sheehy on RTE Radio 1 about how she was busy with a "new production" and a "beautiful production" of her own: "'I think it’s an incredibly special and poignant and beautiful production, if I do say so myself."
The actress also opened up about her family life as a new mother
with her US-born actor husband Adam, who she married in 2021.
She said: "I had a little baby, so I’ve been kind of out of the loop for a long time now.
"I’ve just been in nesting mode and enjoying my little girl. She’s just… she’s very special."
Despite a string of high-profile TV roles including on Ripper Street alongside her husband and as DS Niamh McGovern in the BBC’s Bloodlands, Charlene has admitted she lives with an "existential terror" her acting work will dry up.
She told The Sun: "I still live with the existential terror and dread it will go away.
"And everybody is like, 'Are you taking time off?' and I am taking time going, ‘Don’t go away though’.
"You feel nervous taking time off because you’re like, ‘'Will that be it then?’ "You’re going, ‘I only wanted a few weeks lads, and it’s a year later. What’s the saying? ‘You don’t retire, the industry retires you’."
