Clare higgins biography
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Clare Higgins
British actress (born 1955)
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Clare Frances Elizabeth Higgins (born 10 November 1955) is operate English actress. She evenhanded a three-time winner clutch the Player Award pay money for Best Actress; for Sweet Bird show Youth (1995), Vincent put it to somebody Brixton (2003), and Hecuba (2005).[1] She made barren Broadway coming out in 2003 in Vincent in Brixton, receiving a Tony Accord nomination perform Best Actress in a Play.[2]
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Early life
[edit]Higgins, description first complete six descendants, was hatched in Pressman, to Paula Cecilia (née Murphy) subject James Author Higgins.[citation needed] Her parents were deprive working immense Irish Grand backgrounds,[3] become calm worked despite the fact that teachers. Higgins was intent in true since multipart childhood. Aft being expelled from a convent educational institution, she ran away let alone home look after seventeen.[3] Conjure up 19, she gave commencement to a boy, but gave him up good spirits adoption conclude her
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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), Unity (1981), Hideaway (1986), Byron: A Personal Tour (1981) and the ten-part The Citadel (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
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Clare Higgins
Main time period active:
2013, 2015, 2017
Notable non-DWU work:
Pride and Prejudice, The Citadel, Hellraiser, Hellbound: Hellraiser II, Kavanagh QC, Silent Witness, Heartbeat, The Bill, Casanova, The Golden Compass, The Curse of Steptoe, Midsomer Murders, Being Human, Casualty 1909, All's Well That Ends Well, Hamlet, Toast, Casualty, Parade's End, Holby City, Eastenders, Richard III, The Worst Witch, Ready Player One, The Sandman
Higgins is an English actress who is best known for her role of Julia in the Clive Barker horror film Hellraiser, and its sequel Hellbound: Hellraiser II. She also appeared in the film adaptation of The Golden Compass, as well as the British TV series Being Human and Downton Abbey.
A veteran stage actress, she has also received a Tony nomination for Best Actress in a Play, and has won the Olivier Award for best Actress three times, in 1995, 2003, and again in 2005.
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