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| Mimi Maguire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Shameless character | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Portrayed by | Tina Malone | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Duration | 2005–2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First appearance | 8 February 2005 Series 2 Episode 6 "Welcome to the Family" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last appearance | 28 May 2013 Series 11 Episode 14 "End of the Line" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Created by | Paul Abbott | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Introduced by | George Faber | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classification | Former; regular | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Occupation | Drug dealer/barmaid | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Home | The Jockey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Katherine Harmonica Joy "Mimi" Tutton [1] (also Maguire; born 4 October 1963) is a fictional character from the British Channel 4 comedy drama, Shameless . Mimi is the foul-mouthed, loud, brash and violent matriarch of the Maguire family. She is also a drug dealer on the Chatsworth Estate and is frequently seen selling drugs on the show. She is extremely violent and easily angered. She has "headbutted" several characters on the show including Lip Gallagher (Jody Latham), Sue Garland (Gillian Kearney), Cassie Western (Moya Brady) and even her own son, Shane (Nicky Evans). Mimi is as hard as nails, and she can hold her own with men and women; at one point during series 3 a whole riot squad is needed to restrain her after she attempts to free her daughter from incarceration at the police station. Mimi appeared in 111 episodes in total.
A character is a person or other being in a narrative. The character may be entirely fictional or based on a real-life person, in which case the distinction of a "fictional" versus "real" character may be made. Derived from the ancient Greek word χαρακτήρ, the English word dates from the Restoration, although it became widely used after its appearance in Tom Jones in 1749. From this, the sense of "a part played by an actor" developed. Character, particularly when enacted by an actor in the theatre or cinema, involves "the illusion of being a human person". In literature, characters guide readers through their stories, helping them to understand plots and ponder themes. Since the end of the 18th century, the phrase "in character" has been used to describe an effective impersonation by an actor. Since the 19th century, the art of creating characters, as practiced by actors or writers, has been called characterisation.
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Channel 4 is a British public-service free-to-air television network that began transmission on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA), the station is now owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation, a public corporation of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, which was established in 1990 and came into operation in 1993. With the conversion of the Wenvoe transmitter group in Wales to digital terrestrial broadcasting on 31 March 2010, Channel 4 became a UK-wide TV channel for the first time.
She is the wife of Paddy Maguire (Sean Gilder) and the mother of Mandy Maguire (Samantha Siddall) and the Maguire boys: Jamie (Aaron McCusker), Shane, Micky (Ciarán Griffiths), the late Fergal and the little-seen Joey (Will Willoughby) and Donny (Clyve Bonelle), and the daughter of "Nana" Murphy. Her ex-boyfriend is also called Paddy. In Series 5 a more sensitive side to Mimi is introduced after her ex-boyfriend, Paddy, makes a crass comment about her weight. She describes herself as a "bulimic who can't stand vomit". In the same series, she is shown attending anger management classes. In Series 6, Mimi experiences some regret over her lack of education when her son Micky takes film classes. Mimi does most of his coursework for him, and when he decides the class is not for him, he allows Mimi to take his place.
Sean Brian Gilder is an English stage, film and screen actor, he is also a playwright.
Samantha Siddall is an English actress, best known for playing Mandy Maguire in Channel 4 comedy drama series Shameless.
James Patrick Maguire is a fictional character from the British Channel 4 comedy drama, Shameless, portrayed by Aaron McCusker. The character appeared in 108 episodes overall.
Mimi is presented in the series as somewhat of a character who behaves in ways which are polar opposites. For example, she has no qualms about selling drugs to children and behaving in a violent manner. However, she also has maternal instincts and shows compassion for others. For example, when Chesney Karib (Qasim Akhtar) reacts badly after consuming drugs, she and Paddy care for Chesney by feeding him and ensuring that he recovers. Furthermore, when Chesney's mother, Yvonne Karib (Kelli Hollis) accuses Mimi of being racist and intolerant, Mimi retorts by describing the large amount of racism that Paddy faced when he arrived in England from Ireland. Yvonne and Mimi realise that they share love for their own children and would do anything to ensure the happiness of their respective children. Lastly, Mimi is someone upon whom Libby Croker (Pauline McLynn) can depend when she seeks Mimi's assistance.
Qasim Akhtar is an English actor who played Chesney Karib in the Channel 4 comedy drama Shameless, and Zeedan Nazir in Coronation Street.
Kelli Hollis is a British actress, best known for playing Tina Crabtree in the three Channel 4 related films, shop owner Yvonne Karib in Channel 4's popular comedy drama Shameless and Ali Spencer in ITV soap opera, Emmerdale.
Pauline McLynn is an Irish character actress and author. She is best known for her roles as Mrs Doyle in the Channel 4 sitcom Father Ted, Libby Croker in the Channel 4 comedy drama Shameless, and Yvonne Cotton in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. McLynn also appeared as a Garda in Sky One's Trollied.
The Maguire family's drug dealing business comes to haunt them when Mimi's beloved Paddy is abducted and forcibly addicted to heroin by the bereaved mother of one of their deceased customers. To make matters worse, she is arrested for an assault that her son Jamie carried out, though she openly wants to take the blame for the attack, claiming "A mam's gotta do what a mam's gotta do". This is because she does not want to see her son go to jail again. At the end of series 6, her beloved daughter Mandy is killed by the woman who got Paddy addicted to heroin. The strain of this loss causes Paddy and Mimi to split up.
In Series 7, Mimi lives in The Jockey as the landlord and also has an affair with a friend of her son Micky called Billy Tutton (Michael Taylor), until she finds out that he is only 14 years old, although he looks just as old as Micky. After the boy starts to blackmail Mimi into a secret relationship, Mimi tries to threaten him away from her, finally giving him a gun filled with blanks and daring him to shoot her. When he does, she pretends to be dead, and he flees Chatsworth.
Mimi attempts to join a local women's group to feel better about herself, but they rebuff her attempts to appear in their risque charity calendar, and make her feel worthless. To add insult to injury, they ask Mimi to supply them with some party drugs to help loosen them up before the photoshoot. In revenge, Mimi gives them such a strong supply that they begin dancing around in their underwear and groping each other. Mimi sets up a pornographic website to display the shots.
Mimi gives birth to a newborn daughter, later named Cilla, at the end of Series 7 after complaining of stomach pains and nausea which scared her into believing she had started her menopause. Cilla was presumably fathered by her estranged husband Paddy. According to the Shameless website, Mimi will return to the Maguire house, with her baby daughter Cilla, in Series 8. It is implied that she does not know who fathered Cilla because of her fling with the underage football star Billy.
Mimi returns to The Jockey with baby Cilla, marries Billy, where her full name is revealed, and lives happily ever after [2]
