Clare Perkins
Training
Clare Perkins trained at the Rose Bruford College.
Theatre
For the National Theatre: Bacchae, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (also on UK tour) and Welcome to Thebes
In London’s West End: Player Kings at Noël Coward
Other theatre includes: Wife of Willesden at Kiln; Fabulation, The House That Will Not Stand and How Long Is Never? Darfur – A Response at the Tricycle; Sweat at the Donmar; Mrs Dalloway at the Arcola; Emilia at Shakespeare’s Globe and in the West End; Genesis Inc. at Hampstead; The Immigrant at Hoxton Hall; Daisy Pulls It Off at Park Theatre; Three Mothers at Waterloo East; Primetime at the Royal Court and on UK tour; Roundelay at Southwark Playhouse; The Convert at the Gate; Removal Men at Hackney Yard; Play On and Little Revolution at the Almeida; How to Be Immortal for Penny Dreadful Theatre; and The Rover at Hampton Court Palace
TV
The Guest, Silo, The Outlaws, The Wheel of Time, Bodies, Suspicion, The Crown, Young Wallander, Flack, Damned, Run, EastEnders, Verbatim Riots, Clapham Junction and Talk to Me
Film
The One Hundred Nights of Hero, Embers, Kaleidoscope and Blacklands
Radio
The Unwelcome, Tommies, Miss You Still and The Winter House
(Published September 2025)
Source: National Theatre
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.3983 |
| Birthday | 1965-08-18 |
| Place of Birth | London, England |
| Also Known As |
2023
Love Without Walls
6.5/4
Sophie and Paul (an aspiring musician) can't pay their London rent and turn to friends and family for support. Over the course of a summer, things go...
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Love Without Walls
2024
Hard Times
0/0
On the night Danny is due to look after his daughter he is forced to do a job for a local criminal.
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Hard Times
1994
Ladybird Ladybird
7.199/103
Maggie has had four children, by four different fathers, removed by social services because of a previous violent relationship. When she meets Jorge,...
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Ladybird Ladybird
1990
Chilling Out
0/0
Drama-documentary featuring a group of young Black actors exploring the experience and the spirit of being Black in Britain
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Chilling Out
1999
Pig Heart Boy
0/0
Cameron, a 13-year-old boy whose heart is failing. The only possible solution is an experimental transplant operation in which he's given a pig's hear...
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Pig Heart Boy
2022
National Theatre Live: The Wife of Willesden
0/0
A proper local legend. Married five times. Mother. Lover. Aunt. Friend. Alvita will tell her life story to anyone in the pub – there's no shame in her...
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2007
Deadmeat
0/0
Ex-con Clarkie is betrayed by his best friend, he has no one to turn to as he tracks down his brother's killers. The war spills onto London's mean str...
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Deadmeat
2023
Medusa Deluxe
6.074/54
Talented and cutthroat hairstylists at a competition find one of their own murdered before judging can begin. Winding through neon-lit halls, competit...
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Medusa Deluxe
2023
Charlie's Freedom
0/0
Charlie is a sensitive teenager who doesn't fit in. She cares for her disabled mom but gets bullied at school. When she turns down her place at univer...
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Charlie's Freedom
2004
Bullet Boy
5.672/32
Ricky is just out of a young offenders institute, heading home to Hackney and determined to go straight. Instead, he heads straight for trouble when h...
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Bullet Boy
2006
Shoot the Messenger
5.4/7
Shoot the Messenger follows one man's painful journey towards self-discovery. On the way he finds both his own attitudes and the expectations of his...
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Shoot the Messenger
2023
Embers
0/0
Amy, a sexual surrogate, is employed to help a high-security psychiatric patient overcome his intimacy issues in order to make parole. Incarcerated fo...
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2006
All In The Game
6.1/6
A passionate manager is torn apart between loyalty to his son, a dodgy football agent, and his hometown club. This football drama gives you insight to...
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1996
Secrets & Lies
7.578/720
After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to Cyn...
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Secrets & Lies
2017
Kaleidoscope
5.6/27
A psychological thriller about the destructive relationship between a middle-aged man and his mother.
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Kaleidoscope
1991
Hallelujah Anyhow
0/0
When Adlyn, a woman preacher at a Gospel Church in London, meets and falls in love again with her old childhood sweetheart, she is forced to make an a...
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Hallelujah Anyhow
2011
7lives
4.1/16
A disgruntled married man called Tom believes that there is a better life for him out there somewhere. On his way home one night he gets attacked and...
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7lives
2021
Censor
5.853/459
A screener at the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), who has earned an unsavory reputation for being the strictest censor of violent films,...
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2021
Emilia
0/0
Emilia took our wooden ‘O’ by storm in late 2018, celebrating women’s voices the world over through the story of a trailblazing, forgotten woman, Emil...
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Emilia
2025
100 Nights of Hero
5.8/18
When a charming house guest arrives at a remote castle, the delicate dynamic between a neglectful husband, his innocent bride Cherry and their devoted...
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2025
National Theatre Live: Bacchae
0/0
Fierce and unstoppable, they are a chorus of wild energy ready to shake Thebes to its core — and liberate its women. But their god Dionysos has his o...
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