Clare Higgins

Clare Higgins

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Clare Higgins was born on Nov 10, 1955 in UK. Clare Higgins's big-screen debut came with Pride and Prejudice - Season 1 directed by Cyril Coke in 1980. Clare Higgins is known for Trying directed by Jim O'Hanlon, Rafe Spall stars as Jason Ross and Esther Smith as Nikki Newman. The upcoming new tvshow Clare Higgins plays is Dangerous Liaisons - Season 1 which will be released on Nov 06, 2022.

Clare Higgins was born in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, the second of five children of Paula Cecilia (Murphy) and James Stephen Higgins, who were both teachers, and nursed acting ambitions from childhood. She was sent to a convent school, from which she was expelled, and ran away from home at age seventeen. At nineteen, she gave birth to a son whom she gave up for adoption, but was pleased to be reunited with him in 1995. At 23, she fulfilled her childhood ambition of acting, graduating from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts.Clare honed her craft at the Manchester and the Royal Exchange Theatre, where, among her credits, she had leading roles in the plays "The Deep Man", "Measure For Measure" and "A Streetcar Named Desire", in which she played Stella. At the same time, she was busily carving a niche for herself in numerous television plays which include Pride and Prejudice (1980), BBC2 Playhouse: Unity (1981), Hideaway (1986), Byron: A Personal Tour (1981) and the ten-part La Citadelle (1983) by the BBC, along with Cover Her Face (1985) by ITV. She was also a featured regular on the Channel 4 comedy series Up Line (1987). In 1984, she made her feature film debut in Horton Foote's Nineteen Nineteen (1985). She is also known for her roles in the Clive Barker horror films Le Pacte (1987) and Hellraiser 2: Les écorchés (1988).Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, she consolidated her reputation as a dynamic stage actress, both in London and on Broadway, winning three Olivier awards. In the mid-1990s she also trained, successfully, to become a massage therapist and a psychotherapist.She's played regular characters in Rogue (2013) by DirecTV, The Syndicate (2012), Parade's End (2012), EastEnders (1985) and Amandine Malabul, sorcière maladroite (2017) by the BBC, along with Homefront (2012) by ITV.

  • Birthday

    Nov 10, 1955
  • Place of Birth

    Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK
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