Claire Goose
| Claire Goose | |
|---|---|
| Born |
10 February 1975 Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Education | Wisbech Grammar School |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Spouse(s) | Craig Woodrow (2007-present) |
Claire Goose (born 10 February 1975) is a British actress. 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, Scotland,[3] her father was a GP in Dersingham.[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.
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.
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.
She has received attention from the voters in the FHM magazine poll of the "100 Sexiest Women in the World" on numerous occasions, with improved placings over time. She was no. 94 in the 1998 poll, no. 38 in 1999,[7] and no. 29 in 2000.
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 (TV series) (2012)
- Undeniable (TV series) (2014) (Jane)
- New Tricks (TV series) (2014)
- Death in Paradise (TV series) (2015) (Katie Peters) Episode 4.2
References
- ↑ T & G record. Transport and General Workers' Union (Great Britain). 2003. p. 26.
- ↑ "Waking the Dead". BBC. Retrieved 1 June 2010.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0329647/bio
- ↑ "The Bill actress Claire Goose reveals her joy at her first pregnancy... and how she nearly lost her unborn child". London: The Bill. 1 June 2009. Retrieved 1 June 2010.
- ↑ Stone, Andrew (7 December 2008). "How I made it: Duncan Goose, founder of One Water". London: The Times. Retrieved 1 June 2010.
- ↑ BBC Drama Faces - Jonathan Kerrigan, retrieved 24 September 2008
- ↑ "Entertainment FHM's top 100 women". FHM. 28 May 1999. Retrieved 1 June 2010.
External links
- Claire Goose at the Internet Movie Database
- Claire Goose from Netglimse.com
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