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Clare Higgins(I)

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Clare Higgins in The Golden Compass (2007)
A pair of scheming ex-lovers attempt to exploit others by usingthe power of seduction. TV adaptation of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos' classic 18th Century novel 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses'.
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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 the Clive Barker horror films Hellraiser (1987) and Hellbound: Hellraiser II (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 The Worst Witch (2017) by the BBC, along with Homefront (2012) by ITV.
BornNovember 10, 1955
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Clare Higgins and Mark Spiro in Mark Spiro: She Doesn't Mean a Thing to Me (1984)
Clare Higgins and Mark Spiro in Mark Spiro: She Doesn't Mean a Thing to Me (1984)
Clare Higgins in The Sandman (2022)
Clare Higgins and Ben Mendelsohn in Ready Player One (2018)
Clare Higgins and Tye Sheridan in Ready Player One (2018)
Raquel Cassidy, Clare Higgins, Bella Ramsey, Megan Hughes, and Trixie Hyde in The Worst Witch (2017)
Clare Higgins, Bella Ramsey, Megan Hughes, and Dagny Rollins in The Worst Witch (2017)
Philip Martin Brown, Raquel Cassidy, Clare Higgins, and Shauna Shim in The Worst Witch (2017)
Raquel Cassidy, Clare Higgins, and Amanda Holden in The Worst Witch (2017)
Clare Higgins, Meibh Campbell, Bella Ramsey, Clare Gower, and Sarah Gower in The Worst Witch (2017)
Kacey Ainsworth, Raquel Cassidy, Clare Higgins, and Bella Ramsey in The Worst Witch (2017)
Clare Higgins and Bella Ramsey in The Worst Witch (2017)

Known for

Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988)
Hellbound: Hellraiser II
6.4
  • Julia
  • 1988
Doug Bradley in Hellraiser (1987)
Hellraiser
6.9
  • Julia
  • 1987
Steven Spielberg, Ben Mendelsohn, George Michael, Simon Pegg, Mark Rylance, Perdita Weeks, Kamara Benjamin Barnett, Mandy June Turpin, T.J. Miller, Lena Waithe, Stephen Mitchell, Neet Mohan, Win Morisaki, Elliot Barnes-Worrell, Kae Alexander, Sarah Sharman, Robert Gilbert, Raed Abbas, Letitia Wright, Tye Sheridan, Asan N'Jie, Hannah John-Kamen, Cara Theobold, Olivia Cooke, Alphonso Austin, Amy Clare Beales, Jane Leaney, Kathryn Wilder, and Philip Zhao in Ready Player One (2018)
Ready Player One
7.4
  • Mrs. Gilmore
  • 2018
Cassandra's Dream (2007)
Cassandra's Dream
6.6
  • Dorothy Blaine
  • 2007

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Actress

  • Alice Englert and Nicholas Denton in Dangerous Liaisons (2022)
    Dangerous Liaisons
  • Rafe Spall and Esther Smith in Trying (2020)
    Trying
  • Stephen Fry, Tom Sturridge, Vanesu Samunyai, Jenna Coleman, Boyd Holbrook, Donna Preston, Gwendoline Christie, Mason Alexander Park, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, and Vivienne Acheampong in The Sandman (2022)
    The Sandman
  • Meibh Campbell, Bella Ramsey, and Tamara Smart in The Worst Witch (2017)
    The Worst Witch
  • Emilia Fox in Silent Witness (1996)
    Silent Witness
  • Daniel Wu in Into the Badlands (2015)
    Into the Badlands
  • Vera (2011)
    Vera
  • Sheridan Smith in Cleaning Up (2019)
    Cleaning Up
  • Maxine Peake and Desiree Akhavan in The Bisexual (2018)
    The Bisexual
  • The Convent (2018)
    The Convent
  • Steven Spielberg, Ben Mendelsohn, George Michael, Simon Pegg, Mark Rylance, Perdita Weeks, Kamara Benjamin Barnett, Mandy June Turpin, T.J. Miller, Lena Waithe, Stephen Mitchell, Neet Mohan, Win Morisaki, Elliot Barnes-Worrell, Kae Alexander, Sarah Sharman, Robert Gilbert, Raed Abbas, Letitia Wright, Tye Sheridan, Asan N'Jie, Hannah John-Kamen, Cara Theobold, Olivia Cooke, Alphonso Austin, Amy Clare Beales, Jane Leaney, Kathryn Wilder, and Philip Zhao in Ready Player One (2018)
    Ready Player One
  • Rebecca Front and Ashley Jensen in Love, Lies and Records (2017)
    Love, Lies and Records
  • Joanne Froggatt and Ioan Gruffudd in Liar (2017)
    Liar
  • The Complete Walk: Richard III
  • Bradley Walsh, Jodie Whittaker, Tosin Cole, and Mandip Gill in Doctor Who (2005)
    Doctor Who

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  • Small Faces (1995)
    Small Faces
  • Pride and Prejudice (1980)
    Pride and Prejudice
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Dangerous Liaisons: Season 1
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Dangerous Liaisons (French)
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    • November 10, 1955
    • Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK
    • Clive Wood(divorced)
  • Other works
    Audio book: Narrated Elizabeth Gaskell's "Mary Barton".
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    She found Hellraiser hard to watch. At the premiere, she left and went to the bar. She has never seen the whole movie.
  • Quotes
    [talking about her character in Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988)} I hope you understand Julia's reasons for being an unpleasant character, because you see the depths she's prepared to plumb for love. She's a great deal nastier this time, and if anybody sympathizes with her, I'm doing something wrong. I really want everybody to hate me.

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