Claire Goose
| Claire Goose | |
|---|---|
| Born | 10 February 1975 Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom |
| Education | Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Spouse(s) | Craig Woodrow (2007-present) |
Claire Goose (born 10 February 1975) is a British actress from Edinburgh, Scotland. Known for her good looks and 'dour' persona, she played nurse Tina Seabrook in the BBC television drama Casualty and DS Mel Silver in Waking the Dead.[1][2] She also commentates on the TV show Road Wars.
Early life
Born in Edinburgh,[3] Goose was raised in Dersingham, England, where her father worked as a General practitioner.[3] She has an elder sister, Caroline, a nursery nurse, and an elder brother, Duncan, an entrepreneur who started up the "one water" company where all the profits go to the roundabout playpumps in Africa.[4][5] Claire Goose is a graduate of the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts.
Career
Early theatre roles included Addicted to Love, and Hitting Home with Colin Tarrant at the Man in the Moon Theatre, written by James Woolf and directed by Dave Gillies. She also appeared in early adverts for Impulse women's body spray.
She became well known in the UK in the late 1990s for her role as nurse Tina Seabrook in Casualty. She later replaced Gillian Taylforth from August 2008, playing Inspector Rachel Weston in ITV's The Bill.
In 2011 she appeared in BBC1 drama Exile with John Simm, and in 2015 appeared in the fourth series of Death in Paradise.
In 2015 she appears as the title character in the BBC Birmingham daytime drama The Coroner.
Personal life
She dated Casualty co-star Jonathan Kerrigan for several years.[6] She met producer Craig Woodrow on a blind date. The couple married on 28 December 2007, and have two children.
Filmography
- Loved Up in Men (1995)
- Casualty (nurse Tina Seabrook) for BBC Television (1997 - 2000)
- Alone (2001)
- Slap Bang (2001)
- Gifted (2003)
- Waking the Dead (DS Mel Silver) for BBC Television (2000–2004)
- L'Assommoir (Gervaise) for BBC Radio 4 (2004)
- Secret Smile (2005)
- Perfect Day (2005)
- Bad Day (2008)
- About a Dog (Sarah) for BBC Radio 4 (2007)
- The Bill (Inspector Rachel Weston) (TV series) (2008-2010)
- Road Wars (Narrator) (TV series) (2009-)
- Hustle Series 7 (Albert Stroller's Daughter) (Feb 2011)
- Exile (May 2011)
- Mount Pleasant (2012)
- Undeniable (2014) (Jane)
- New Tricks (TV series) (2014)
- Death in Paradise (TV series) (2015) (Katie Peters) Episode 4.2
- The Coroner (TV series) (2015) (Jane Kennedy)
References
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- ↑ BBC Drama Faces - Jonathan Kerrigan, retrieved 24 September 2008
External links
- Claire Goose at the Internet Movie Database
- Claire Goose from Netglimse.com
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- 1975 births
- Alumni of the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts
- British television actresses
- English people of Scottish descent
- Scottish people of English descent
- Living people
- Anglo-Scots
- People from Edinburgh
- People from King's Lynn
- People educated at Wisbech Grammar School
- Actresses from Cambridgeshire
