
Clare Perkins
Biography
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
Movie Appearances

Love Without Walls
as Faye the Hostel Manager
2023

Hard Times
as Joan
2024

Ladybird Ladybird
as Jill
1994

Chilling Out
as Clare
1990

Pig Heart Boy
as Cathy Kelsey
1999

National Theatre Live: The Wife of Willesden
as Alvita, The Wife of Willesden
2022

Deadmeat
as De Costa
2007

Medusa Deluxe
as Cleve
2023

Charlie's Freedom
as Sarah
2023

Shoot the Messenger
as Mary Gibbs
2006

Bullet Boy
as Beverley
2004

Embers
as Helen
2023

All In The Game
as Mrs. Lamone
2006

Secrets & Lies
as Hortense's Sister in Law
1996

Kaleidoscope
as Launderette Assistant
2017

Hallelujah Anyhow
as Opal
1991

7lives
as Kids Mum (as Claire Perkins)
2011

Censor
as Anne
2021

Emilia
as Emilia 3
2021

100 Nights of Hero
as Wilmot
2025
TV Appearances

The Outlaws
as Myrna
2021

Silo
as Carla McLain
2023

The Wheel of Time
as Kerene Nagashi
2021

Bodies
as Inspector Anderson
2023

Pig Heart Boy
as Cathy Kelsey
1999

Suspicion
as Lydia Thompson
2022

Flack
as Shirelle
2019

Death in Paradise
as Fabienne Jordan
2011

The Crown
as Social Worker
2016

I Hate You
as Angela
2022

My Wonderful Life
as Bridget Groves
1996