Gallaghers forever! The long-running drama Shameless wrapped up its 10-year run in April 2021, but the Gallagher family’s antics will always live on in viewers’ hearts.
Based on the British TV show with the same name. ShamelessPremiered on Showtime in January 2011 William H. MacyFrank Gallagher, the patriarch of the family, was the anchor of the cast. Frank was an addict to alcohol and drugs. His six children were his financial support.
“The Gallaghers live right on the edge of the law, and they have to skirt the law a lot to make it,” the Emmy winner told Vanity FairAugust 2018. “They’re one paycheck away from homelessness. And it’s a really interesting family to follow, to see what that’s really like. And we make light of it, and it’s sanitized a little bit, but the writers have been really good at, every once in a while, reminding you — this is serious s—t.”
The series was set in Chicago and received 15 Emmy nominations. It also won four Emmys. Macy didn’t win any of his six nominations for Outstanding Leading Actor in Comedy Series, but he did win three Screen Actors Guild Awards. He won them in 2015, 2017 and 2018.
Emmy Rossum, arguably the show’s other biggest star, made headlines in August 2018 when she announced that she was leaving the series after season 9. “I know you will continue on without me, for now,” she wrote in a Facebook statement at the time. “There is much more Gallagher story to be told. I will always root to support my family. Try not to think of me as gone, just think of me as moving down the block.”
However, her former costar was still available for the series finale in April 2021. Emma Kenney said “the set became more of a positive place” following Rossum’s departure.
“I remember pre her leaving, I’d go to set some days and I’d be very anxious having a scene with her because if she had a bad day, she made it a bad day for everybody,” the Conners alum said during an October 2021 episode of the “Call Her Daddy” podcast.
Despite any past tension, Kenney added that she still has “a lot of love” for the Phantom of the Opera star. “I hope she finds her happiness,” she added.
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