Claire Price
{{Short description|English actress (born 1972)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2018}}
{{Infobox person
|name = Claire Price
|image = Claire Price at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival (cropped).jpg
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|caption = Price at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival
|birth_name = Claire Louise Price
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1972|7|4|df=yes}}
|birth_place = Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England
|nationality = British
|occupation = Actress
|years_active = 1994–present
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Claire Louise Price (born 4 July 1972) is an English actress. Her stage credits are extensive, her film and television credits include The Whistle-Blower (2001), Midsomer Murders episode "Tainted Fruit" (2001), Agatha Christie's Poirot episode "The Hollow" (2004), Rosemary and Thyme (2004), Rebus (2006-2007), Dalziel and Pascoe (2006), The Coroner (2015), The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015), and Home Fires (2015-2016), and The Capture (2022).
Life and career
Price was born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Her parents, John Price and Andree Evans, also acted.{{Cite web |url= https://www.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk/whats-on/theatre-and-comedy/proud-to-be-back-1-3507159 |title= Proud to be back |work= Sheffield Telegraph |date= 23 June 2011 |access-date=4 November 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20181104170049/https://www.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk/whats-on/theatre-and-comedy/proud-to-be-back-1-3507159 |archive-date=4 November 2018 |url-status=dead }} Her grandfather was the Worcestershire cricketer John Price. Her nephew is actor Charlie Rowe.
She is known for her portrayal as DS Siobhan Clarke in the TV drama Rebus (2006-2007) broadcast on the ITV network. She played opposite Ken Stott (DI John Rebus) in the adaptations of the Inspector Rebus novels by Scottish author Ian Rankin. In 2015, Price also played the role of Miriam Brindsley in ITV's World War II TV series Home Fires (2015-2016). Her parents, John Price and Andree Evans, were also actors.{{Cite web |url= https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/claire-price/credits/3030091679/ |title= Claire Price Credits |work= tvguide.com |access-date= 21 August 2024}}
Previous television work include one-episode roles in many other long-running crime drama series including London's Burning, The Knock, Dalziel and Pascoe, Rosemary and Thyme, Apparitions, Doctors, Agatha Christie's Poirot The Hollow, Midsomer Murders Tainted Fruit,Murder in Mind, The Whistle-Blower, The Outcast, Capital, and The Coroner.
Price has also worked in classical theatre. She played Olivia in the 2003 multi-cultural adaptation of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night at Liverpool Playhouse. Her other Shakespearean roles have included Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing at the Sheffield Crucible, Miranda in The Tempest at the Old Vic, and Rosalind in As You Like It at Manchester Royal Exchange. At the Royal National Theatre, she played Berinthia in The Relapse (2001) and Roxanne in Cyrano de Bergerac (2004).{{Cite web |url= https://www.rsc.org.uk/press/releases/casting-announced-for-the-box-of-delights-the-rsc-s-festive-family-show |title= Casting Announced for the Box of Delights, The RSC'S Festive Family Show |work= rsc.org.uk |access-date= 18 April 2024}}
In 2008, she played Ellida in Lady from the Sea at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, and in 2009 she took the roles of Amanda in Private Lives at the Hampstead Theatre, Queen Elizabeth I in Mary Stuart at Theatr Clwyd, directed by Terry Hands,{{cite journal|url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/theatre/article6281462.ece|last=Jays|first=David|date=17 May 2009|title=Mary Stuart at the Clwyd Theatr Cymru, Mold|journal=The Sunday Times|location=London|accessdate=23 October 2009}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} and as a journalist in The Power of Yes at the National Theatre.{{cite web|url=http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/?lid=50093&dspl=castcreds|title=The Power of Yes Cast Credits|publisher=National Theatre|accessdate=23 October 2009}}
In 2009, she appeared in The First Domino at Brighton Festival Fringe.{{Cite web|title= Bomb survivor writes Brighton play |url= http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/4340368.Bomb_survivor_writes_Brighton_play/ |publisher= The Argus |date= 5 May 2009 |author= Emily-Ann Elliott |accessdate= 2011-07-27 }}
She had a supporting role in The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015).
Price played the lead role of Petruchia in the RSC's staging of The Taming of the Shrew at The Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon.{{Cite web|title=The taming of the Shrew Review RSC Royal Shakespeare Theatre Stratford upon Avon|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2019/mar/19/the-taming-of-the-shrew-review-rsc-royal-shakespeare-theatre-stratford-upon-avon|url-status=live|website=theguardian.com|date=19 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190320023952/https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2019/mar/19/the-taming-of-the-shrew-review-rsc-royal-shakespeare-theatre-stratford-upon-avon |archive-date=20 March 2019 }}
Honours and awards
Price won the award for 'Best Supporting Performance' at the 2011 UK Theatre Awards for her role in The Pride at the Crucible in Sheffield.{{cite web |title=National Theatre Wales triumphs in regional theatre awards |date=2011-10-31 |website=The Guardian |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221211125438/https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2011/oct/31/theatre-awards-2011-winners |archive-date=2022-12-11 |url-status=live |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2011/oct/31/theatre-awards-2011-winners}} She won Best Actress for her role as Alice in [http://www.bindudestoppani.com/page10.htm 'Jump'] at [https://web.archive.org/web/20130729055337/http://www.thefilmfestivalguild.com/#/biff-2012/4562978071 The British Independent Film Festival 2012]
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|id=1112097|name=Claire Price}}
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Category:20th-century English actresses
Category:21st-century English actresses
Category:Actresses from Chesterfield, Derbyshire
Category:English Shakespearean actresses