Gaz Schofield

Gary "Gaz" Schofield is the ex-husband of Mandy, the father of Nathan and Destiny, the paternal grandfather of Ben and is the main protagonist of the 1997 comedy film The Full Monty and its stage adaption and it's 2023 Disney+ follow-up series.
He is played by Robert Carlyle (who also plays Hamish Macbeth and Gabriel Belmont) in the film and TV series and Kenny Doughty and Gary Lucy in the stage adaptation.
==Appearances==
===The Full Monty===
Gaz worked for ten years at a steel mills in Sheffield until it closed down. Following its closure, Gaz struggled to pay child support for his son Nathan (who lived with his ex-wife Mandy and her new partner).
Gaz, along with his best friend Dave, would break into their old workplace to steal and sell leftover steel.
In an attempt to escape the poverty trap, Gaz, along with Dave and the steelworks former security man Lomper, former foreman Gerald and two other men named Guy and Horse, decide to earn money by becoming Sheffield's answer to the Chippendales, but unlike the former, would go "the full monty".
===The Full Monty (TV series)===
Gaz reappeared in the film's follow-up series, which takes place 25 years after the events of the film. He is shown to still be friends with Dave, Lomper, Horse and Gerald. 
In the series, it is revealed that some years after the film and before the events of the series, Gaz had a relationship with a woman named Yaz and had a daughter with her named Destiny. Gaz is also the grandfather to Nathan's son Ben.
Gaz is also shown to have got a job working in a hospital as a porter.
==Trivia==
*According to his son Nathan, Gaz has been in prison at least once.
*Rik Mayall, Hugh Grant and Nicholas Lyndhurst were considered to play Gaz before Robert Carlyle was cast.
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