Nicholas Cochrane

On 2 September 2019, he guest starred in an episode of the BBC soap opera Doctors as Dean Telford, a debt-ridden dad who owes money to a local businessman and has to use his pizza business to deal drugs.

2014 saw Cochrane appear on Piers Morgan's Life Stories in an episode about Callard, his on-screen mother in Coronation Street.

In 2012, he participated in a sold-out Canadian theatre tour, Tales from the Street, which saw him and other Coronation Street stars talk candidly about the soap. He was an executive producer of the tour which earned rave reviews.

In addition, Cochrane has contributed to many Coronation Street-related entertainment shows and documentaries including Farewell Liz, a tribute to Beverley Callard in 2011. Other shows all for ITV stations or for commercial DVD release have included: A Nightmare on Coronation Street, The Kids from Coronation Street, Women of Coronation Street, Coronation Street Through the Keyhole, The Stars of the street 50 years 50 classic characters, Happy Birthday Coronation Street, Classic Coronation Street, Coronation Street Secrets and Coronation Street: The McDonald Family Album.

Cochrane had appeared as an extra on TV for Coronation Street's production company, Granada TV, prior to his successful audition in 1989 for the role of Andy McDonald. Cochrane's character stayed in the programme for seven years before he was axed, along with several other cast members, in a high-profile cull by a new producer in 1997. His character took a job as an English teacher in Spain, but has since returned for two short spells so that Andy McDonald could be seen attending the remarriage of his parents and later being best man at his brother's wedding.

Nicholas Marc Cochrane (born 16 December 1973) is an English actor, known for his role as Andy McDonald in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street.