Clare Calbraith

Clare Michelle Calbraith (born 1 January 1974) is an English actress, born in Winsford,^[1] Cheshire, and raised in Liverpool and Cheshire, whose appearances include roles in Vera, the ITV period drama series Home Fires and Downton Abbey, together with the BBC2 drama The Shadow Line.^[2]^[3]

Biography

Calbraith has appeared in many other television series including Vera,DCI Banks, Silent Witness, Casualty, Holby City, The Bill, 55 Degrees North and as Dr Tricia Summerbee in Heartbeat. She joined Coronation Street in 2005 for a short time to play Robyn, girlfriend of Martin Platt. In 2007, she guest-starred in the Doctor Who audio dramas Urban Myths and Son of the Dragon. In 2008, she guest-starred in the Sapphire and Steel audio drama Second Sight and Doctors. In 2011, she played Laura Gabriel in the BBC TV series, The Shadow Line.^[4] From 2012 to 2014, she played Shep in the ITV series Vera.^[5]

Television and film work

Film & television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1999–2012	Casualty	Tanya Hardie / Carrie Morgan / Paige Norton	3 episodes
2000	Black Cab	Sara	Episode: "Silent Night"
2000–2002	Heartbeat	Tricia Summerbee	42 episodes
2003	The Eustace Bros.	Kassidy	Episode #1.6
2005	55 Degrees North	Beth Robson	5 episodes
	Holby City	Clare Given	Episode: "View from the Sideline"
	Coronation Street	Robyn	18 episodes
2005, 2009	The Bill	Nicci Villers / Maxine Clements	2 episodes
2006	EastEnders	DI Skillen	Episode #1.3136
2009	Inspector George Gently	Helen Donovan	14 episodes
2011	Downton Abbey	Jane Moorsum	4 episodes
2011	The Shadow Line	Laura Gabriel	7 episodes
2012	Midsomer Murders	Catrina Harper	Episode: "Written in the Stars"
2012–2014	Vera	DC Rebecca 'Shep' Shepherd	7 episodes
2013	Mindscape	Jaime	Film
2014	Silent Witness	Lizzie Kennedy	2 episodes
2015–2016	Home Fires	Steph Farrow	12 episodes
2016	DCI Banks	Alice Finn	2 episodes
2017	Broken	Mariella	2 episodes
2017	Little Boy Blue	Helen Morris	3 episodes
2018	The Innocents	Deborah Hale	Episode: "Deborah"
	The Alienist	Mrs Zweig	Episode: "The Boy on the Bridge"
	Requiem	PS Graves	5 episodes
2019	Baptiste	Clare	4 episodes
2020	Strike Back	Dr Thurman	Episode: "Vendetta: Part 6"
2021	Unforgotten	Anna Sidhu	6 episodes
2022	Anne	Sheila Coleman	3 episodes
2022–2024	Grace	Sandy Grace	9 episodes
2023	The Family Pile	Yvette	6 episodes
2023	Smother	Cheryl	4 episodes
2024	Mr Bates vs The Post Office	Gina Griffiths	Episode #1.3
2024	The Jetty	Joan Owen	4 episodes
TBA	A Very Royal Scandal	Sam McAlister	In production

References

^ "Telly talk: Clare's change of heart". Manchester Evening News. 17 April 2010. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
^ "BBC Two – The Shadow Line, Episode 1". BBC. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
^ "Downton Abbey does disco". telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
^ "Clare Calbraith". LocateTV.com. Archived from the original on 28 November 2014. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
^ Shillcock, Francesca (4 April 2023). "7 stars who quit ITV's Vera and where they are now". hellomagazine.com. Hello Magazine. Retrieved 1 June 2024.