Andrew Allen MBE MLA (born 2 November 1988) is an Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) politician in Northern Ireland and a former soldier in the British Army.

Allen is the UUP spokesperson for Communities, and has been a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for Belfast East since 2015.

He is a veteran of the War in Afghanistan, and was left a double above knee amputee and partially blind as a result of an attack by the Taliban in Helmand using an improvised explosive device.

The documentary followed his journey from being injured in Afghanistan, which was caught on camera by one of his colleagues to his admission to Selly Oak Hospital in Birmingham, and his overall recovery.

In November 2023, as the UUP's Communities Spokesperson, Allen met with trade union representatives and called for non-teaching school staff to receive fair pay and employment terms.