Question: Laura Donnelly starred in tv show based on a Northern Irish professional footballer who won the European Cup with Manchester United, and was named the European Footballer of the Year and FWA Footballer of the Year, who was this football player?

Context articles: 2008 UEFA Champions League Final
Jonny Evans
George Best
Johnny Carey
Laura Donnelly (actress)
FWA Footballer of the Year
Dukla Prague
Allan Simonsen
1968 European Cup Final
Kenny Dalglish

The 2008 UEFA Champions League Final was a football match that took place on Wednesday, 21 May 2008, at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia, to determine the winner of the 2007–08 UEFA Champions League.
 It was contested by Manchester United and Chelsea, making it an all-English club final for the first time in the history of the competition.
 This was only the third time that two clubs from the same country had contested the final; the others being the 2000 and 2003 finals.
 It was the first European Cup final played in Russia, and hence the easternmost final in the tournament's history.
 It also marked the 100th anniversary of Manchester United's first league triumph, the 50th anniversary of the Munich air disaster, and the 40th anniversary of United's first European Cup triumph in 1968.
 It was Manchester United's third European Cup final after 1968 and 1999, while it was Chelsea's first.
Jonathan Grant Evans (born 3 January 1988) is a Northern Irish professional footballer who plays as a defender for and captains Premier League club West Bromwich Albion and plays for the Northern Ireland national team.
 Evans was born in Belfast and started his career at Greenisland FC, where he was spotted by Manchester United scouts.
 He progressed through Manchester United's football Academy to play in several foreign tours in the summer of 2006.
 He then went on loan to Royal Antwerp and had two spells with Sunderland.
 He made his Manchester United first team debut in the 2007–08 League Cup, becoming a regular first-team squad member the following season.
 Evans is the second most decorated player in Northern Irish football history with 10 major trophies.
George Best (22 May 1946 – 25 November 2005) was a Northern Irish professional footballer who played as a winger for Manchester United and the Northern Ireland national team.
 In 1968, he won the European Cup with Manchester United, and was named the European Footballer of the Year and FWA Footballer of the Year.
 The Irish Football Association described him as the "greatest player to ever pull on the green shirt of Northern Ireland".
John James "Johnny" Carey (23 February 1919 – 22 August 1995), also known as Jackie Carey, was an Irish professional footballer and manager.
 As a player Carey spent most of his career at Manchester United, where he was team captain from 1946 until he retired as a player in 1953.
 He was also a dual internationalist, playing for and captaining both Ireland teams – the FAI XI and the IFA XI.
 In 1947 he also captained a Europe XI which played a Great Britain XI at Hampden Park.
 In 1949 he was voted the Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year and in the same year captained the FAI XI that defeated England 2–0 at Goodison Park, becoming the first non-UK team to beat England at home.
 Carey was also the first non-UK player and the first Irishman to captain a winning team in both an FA Cup Final and the First Division.
 Like his contemporary Con Martin, Carey was an extremely versatile footballer and played in nine different positions throughout his career.
 He even played in goal for United on one occasion.
Laura Donnelly (born 20 August 1982) is an actress from Northern Ireland.
 She made her on-screen debut in 2005 in the Channel 4 drama "Sugar Rush", where she featured as a love interest of the female protagonist in two episodes.
 She is also known for appearing in "Casualty", "Hex", and as a main character in the Irish film "Insatiable" (2008).
 She also starred in "", a BBC drama on the life of George Best, playing Best's sister, Barbara.
 She starred in Jez Butterworth's new play, "The River" at the Royal Court Theatre, alongside Dominic West and Miranda Raison.
 She reprised her role in the Broadway production alongside Hugh Jackman.
The Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year (often called the FWA Footballer of the Year, or in England simply the Footballer of the Year) is an annual award given to the player who is adjudged to have been the best of the season in English football.
 The award has been presented since the 1947–48 season, when the inaugural winner was Blackpool winger Stanley Matthews.
 The latest winner of the award as of 2016–17 is N'Golo Kante of Chelsea.
 Eight players have won the award on more than one occasion, the most recent being Cristiano Ronaldo, who won his second award in the 2007–08 season.
 Thierry Henry has won the award on the most occasions, having won three times in four seasons.
Dukla Prague () was a Czech football club from the city of Prague.
 Established in 1948 as ATK Praha, the club won a total of 11 Czechoslovak league titles and eight Czechoslovak Cups, and in the 1966–67 season, reached the semi-finals of the European Cup.
 As late as 1985–86 they reached the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup semi-final and they also made a great impact in the American Challenge Cup competition in New York City with four wins between 1961 and 1964.
 The club sent seven players to the silver medal winning Czechoslovakia national team in the 1962 World Cup, in a year which saw them win the fifth of their domestic league titles as well as their player Josef Masopust be named European Footballer of the Year.
 Between the start of the competition in 1955 and 1991, Dukla played more matches in the European Cup than any other team in Czechoslovakia.
Allan Rodenkam Simonsen (born 15 December 1952) is a former Danish footballer and manager.
 He most prominently played as a forward for German Bundesliga club Borussia Mönchengladbach, winning the 1975 and 1979 UEFA Cups, as well as for Barcelona from Spain, winning the 1982 Cup Winners' Cup.
 Simonsen is the only footballer to have scored in the European Cup, UEFA Cup, and Cup Winners' Cup finals.
 Simonsen was named 1977 European Footballer of the Year.
The 1968 European Cup Final was a football match played at Wembley Stadium on 29 May 1968 to determine the winners of the 1967–68 European Cup, the 13th season of the European Cup, a tournament organised by UEFA for the champions of European leagues.
 The final was contested by Benfica of Portugal and Manchester United of England, with Manchester United winning 4–1 after extra time.
Kenneth Mathieson Dalglish, MBE (born 4 March 1951) is a Scottish former footballer and manager.
 In a career spanning 22 years, he played for Celtic and Liverpool, winning numerous honours with both.
 He is Scotland's most capped player of all time with 102 appearances, and also Scotland's joint-leading goal scorer, with 30 goals.
 Dalglish won the Ballon d'Or Silver Award in 1983, the PFA Player of the Year in 1983, and the FWA Footballer of the Year in 1979 and 1983.
 In 2009 "FourFourTwo" named Dalglish as the greatest striker in post-war British football, and in 2006 he topped a Liverpool fans' poll of "100 Players Who Shook the Kop".
 He has been inducted into both the Scottish and English Football Halls of Fame.