Home and Away actor joins cast of RTÉ series The Dry as it returns for final season
Home and Away actor Rick Donald has joined the cast of RTÉ series The Dry.
Rick Donald will star in the third and final season of the show, Deadline reports.
He will play the role of Daryl, a 'handsome and mysterious' Australian stranger, who meets the main character and recovering alcoholic Shiv Sheridan, played by Róisín Gallagher.
Róisín Gallagher and Rick Donald / Image: Peter Rowen/RTE
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Donald played the role of Kieran Baldivis in popular Australian soap Home and Away.
He's also starred as Danny in the Australian version of hit show The Office.
His other acting credits include Educators, Australia's Sexiest Tradie and Population 11.
Filming has already begun on the third season the show produced in collaboration with ITV.
Original cast members, Siobhán Cullen, Ciarán Hinds, Adam Richardson and Pom Boyd will all return.
The Dry (season 2) RTE One Eugene chat with Michael McElhatton
'It has been a true joy to see audiences embrace the Sheridan family in all their dysfunctional glory and I am so grateful to have gotten to tell this story over three seasons,' the show's creator, Nancy Harris said.
'The third and final season aims to go deeper than ever before, really getting under the skin of Shiv and the family in a way that we hope is both surprising, funny and (painfully) honest.'
The series follows 35-year-old Shiv Sheridan, a recovering alcoholic who after spending 10 years in London returns home to Dublin to a family who are not supportive of her newfound sobriety.
The final installment has promised to dive deeper into the lives of the Sheridan family as long-buried family secrets come to the surface.
As the family deal with the emotional reckoning, Shiv has to confront the possibility that the real problem may never have been alcohol – but may have been herself all along.
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