Main pic: Frank Laverty as DS Jordan in Emmerdale. Credit: ITV.<\/p>\n
A Donegal actor was portrayed to an audience of millions last night in the latest episode of the hit UK soap, Emmerdale.<\/strong><\/p>\n Frank Laverty, from Stranorlar, plays \u2018DS Jordan\u2019 who is investigating a dramatic cliff plunge. The long-running ITV soap opera has a regular viewership of more than four million per episode.<\/p>\n Laverty, who cut his teeth with the local Butt Drama Circle in Ballybofey, is now based in London and is also currently starring in a theatre show.<\/p>\n Last night, DS Jordan was seen arresting Robert Sugden for attempted murder after Aaron and John \u2018tumbled down a cliff\u2019. The character played by Laverty, who has appeared on Emmerdale before, is tasked with getting to the bottom of the crime.<\/p>\n Laverty, who regularly visits his hometown, has also recently been seen play\u00ading the role of Cia\u00adran in Mer\u00adman series Bad Sis\u00adters (Apple TV+); Gabe in Sis\u00adterS (IFC Films\/\u200bRT\u00c9); and the role of Michael in Shane Meadow\u2019s The Virtues (Chan\u00adnel 4\/\u200bWarp Films). He recently fin\u00adished film\u00ading on Hid\u00adden Assets series 3.<\/p>\n Laverty started his professional career as an Abbey player after grad\u00adu\u00adat\u00ading from drama col\u00adlege in Dublin. He has worked at the Abbey The\u00adatre reg\u00adu\u00adlarly over the past 20 years where he has appeared in var\u00adi\u00adous pro\u00adduc\u00adtions includ\u00ading The House, Done\u00adgal, Iphi\u00adge\u00adnia at Aulis, Por\u00adtia Cough\u00adlan, Away Alone, Sour Grapes, The Ham\u00adlet Project, The Count\u00adless Cath\u00adleen, Sil\u00adver\u00adlands, The Win\u00adter Thief, On The Outside\/\u200bOn The Inside, The Com\u00adedy of Errors, Famine, Trans\u00adla\u00adtions and Aris\u00adto\u00adcrats among others.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Popular Donegal actor stars before millions on Emmerdale! was last modified: September 12th, 2025 by Staff Writer<\/p>\n Tags:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Main pic: Frank Laverty as DS Jordan in Emmerdale. Credit: ITV. A Donegal actor was portrayed to an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[42800,669,18,8311,117,42801,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-59589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-butt-drama-circle","9":"tag-donegal-news","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-emmerdale","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-frank-laverty-actor","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}