Clare Holman

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Clare Holman (born 1 January 1964) is an English actress, perhaps most famous for her role of forensic pathologist Dr. Laura Hobson in the television series Inspector Morse and Lewis. She was born in England and started her acting career in the TV movie The Rainbow, based on the novel by D. H. Lawrence. Clare was nominated for 1997 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role of 1996 for her performance in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. As well as being an actress, she also teaches acting at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

She also played Wendy the narrator and mother of Michael in Fallen Angel, a story about Rosie Byfield, a clergyman's daughter who grows up to be a psychopathic killer, starring Emilia Fox. She has the rare achievement of appearing in two episodes of Midsomer Murders as two different characters, which are entitled Country Matters and Ring Out Your Dead.