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Clare Perkins

Clare Perkins

Born: 1965-08-18 • London, England

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

Filmography
100 Nights of Hero poster
100 Nights of Hero
2025 • Wilmot
National Theatre Live: Bacchae poster
National Theatre Live: Bacchae
2025 • Vida
Hard Times poster
Hard Times
2024 • Joan
No Image
Embers
2023 • Helen
Charlie's Freedom poster
Charlie's Freedom
2023 • Sarah
Love Without Walls poster
Love Without Walls
2023 • Faye the Hostel Manager
Medusa Deluxe poster
Medusa Deluxe
2023 • Cleve
National Theatre Live: The Wife of Willesden poster
National Theatre Live: The Wife of Willesden
2022 • Alvita, The Wife of Willesden
Censor poster
Censor
2021 • Anne
Emilia poster
Emilia
2021 • Emilia 3
Kaleidoscope poster
Kaleidoscope
2017 • Launderette Assistant
7lives poster
7lives
2011 • Kids Mum (as Claire Perkins)
Deadmeat poster
Deadmeat
2007 • De Costa
All In The Game poster
All In The Game
2006 • Mrs. Lamone
Shoot the Messenger poster
Shoot the Messenger
2006 • Mary Gibbs
Bullet Boy poster
Bullet Boy
2004 • Beverley
Pig Heart Boy poster
Pig Heart Boy
1999 • Cathy Kelsey
Secrets & Lies poster
Secrets & Lies
1996 • Hortense's Sister in Law
Ladybird Ladybird poster
Ladybird Ladybird
1994 • Jill
Hallelujah Anyhow poster
Hallelujah Anyhow
1991 • Opal
Chilling Out poster
Chilling Out
1990 • Clare