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Claire Price
English actress (born 1972) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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).
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Price was born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire.[1] Her parents, John Price and Andree Evans, also acted.[1][2] 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.[1] She played opposite Ken Stott (DI John Rebus) in the adaptations of the Inspector Rebus novels by Scottish author Ian Rankin.[1] In 2015, Price also played the role of Miriam Brindsley in ITV's World War II TV series Home Fires (2015-2016).[1]
Previous television work include one-episode roles in many other long-running crime drama series including London's Burning, The Knock, Dalziel and Pascoe,[3] Rosemary and Thyme,[2] Apparitions, Doctors, Agatha Christie's Poirot The Hollow,[2] Midsomer Murders Tainted Fruit,[2]Murder in Mind, The Whistle-Blower,[2] The Outcast, Capital, and The Coroner.[2]
Price has also worked in classical theatre. She played Olivia in the 2003 multi-cultural adaptation of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night at Liverpool Playhouse.[3] Her other Shakespearean roles have included Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing at the Sheffield Crucible,[1] Miranda in The Tempest at the Old Vic,[3] and Rosalind in As You Like It at Manchester Royal Exchange.[3] At the Royal National Theatre, she played Berinthia in The Relapse (2001) and Roxanne in Cyrano de Bergerac (2004).[3]
In 2008, she played Ellida in Lady from the Sea at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre,[3] and in 2009 she took the roles of Amanda in Private Lives at the Hampstead Theatre,[1] Queen Elizabeth I in Mary Stuart at Theatr Clwyd,[1] directed by Terry Hands,[4] and as a journalist in The Power of Yes at the National Theatre.[5]
In 2009, she appeared in The First Domino at Brighton Festival Fringe.[6]
She had a supporting role in The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015).[2]
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.[7]
In summer 2025 Price appeared as Lydia in Terence Rattigan's In Praise of Love at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond.[8]
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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.[9] She won Best Actress for her role as Alice in 'Jump' at The British Independent Film Festival 2012
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