Clare Higgins
Clare Frances Elizabeth Higgins (born November 10, 1955 in Bradford , England ) is a British film and stage actress .
Life
Higgins was born the second of five children into a teaching family. In her youth she was expelled from the convent school she attended. She ran away from home when she was 17, and when she was 19 she gave birth to a boy whom she put up for adoption.
Higgins began her acting career in the theater, where she was quickly hired for roles in London and New York's Broadway theaters . She began her film career in the role of Kitty Bennett in a TV miniseries adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice . Her second role was as Christine Manson in the television series The Citadel . She had her most important screen roles as the violent Julia in Hellraiser and its successor films.
Filmography
- 1980: Pride and Prejudice (TV series, five episodes)
- 1983: The Citadel (TV series, nine episodes)
- 1985: Nineteen Nineteen
- 1987: Hellraiser - The Gate to Hell (Hellraiser)
- 1988: The Fruit Machine - Rendezvous with a Killer (The Fruit Machine)
- 1988: Hellbound: Hellraiser II
- 1993: Bad Behavior
- 1994: Vaterland ( Fatherland , TV movie)
- 1995: Thin Ice
- 1996: Small Faces
- 1996: Coroner Dr. Leo Dalton ( Silent Witness , TV series, eight episodes)
- 1998: B. Monkey
- 2000: Haus Bellomont (The House of Mirth)
- 2004: Stage Beauty
- 2004: The Libertine
- 2005: Bigger Than the Sky
- 2007: Cassandra's Dream (Cassandra's Dream)
- 2007: The Golden Compass (The Golden Compass)
- 2008: Spring 1941
- 2009: Being Human (TV series, 2 episodes)
- 2010: toast
- 2012: A Fantastic Fear of Everything (A Fantastic Fear of Everything)
- 2012: Parade's End - The Last Gentleman ( Parade's End , TV series, 4 episodes)
- 2013: It doesn't last a year ...! (I Give It a Year)
- since 2017: A Lousy Witch ( The Worst Witch , TV series)
Web links
- Clare Higgins in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Clare Higgins in the Internet Broadway Database (English)
- Clare Higgins at filmreference.com (English)
- Clare Higgins in the German dubbing file
Individual evidence
- ^ Jung at heart at telegraph.co.uk, accessed October 31, 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Higgins, Clare |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Higgins, Clare Frances Elizabeth (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British film and stage actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 10, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bradford , England , UK |