Clare Lawrence

Clare Lawrence or Clare Moody (born 1975, Yorkshire) is an English television and stage actor.

Educated and trained at Lady Eleanor Holles School and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, all the while acting in TV (she had first acted aged 8 in "Crown Court" and "Coronation Street"). She gained a first class degree in English at New Hall, Cambridge, before being cast alongside Joan Plowright and Dorothy Tutin in the film "This Could Be the Last Time" (1998). She has since appeared in "EastEnders", "Ultimate Force", "Doctors", "The Bill", "Bad Girls", "Longitude" (2000) and "Harry",

She has also appeared onstage as Ruth Fry in "Fram" (2008), in "Nightschool"/"A Slight Ache", "Whale Music", "Strip Show", "Three Sisters", "The Alchemist", "The Changeling", "The Malcontent", as well as on radio in "27 Wagons Full of Cotton", "Amerika" and "Ghost in the Mechanic".

She and Anna Waterhouse also run the West End theatre production company Out Of The Blue Productions. Its productions have included "This Is Our Youth" by Kenneth Lonergan, "A Life In The Theatre" and "Oleanna" by David Mamet, and "Some Girl(s)" by Neil LaBute. Lawrence has also produced "Fool for Love".

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* [http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/Clare%20Lawrence+35098.twl Clare Lawrence] - biography as company member at the Royal National Theatre