Biografía
Clare Higgins is one of England’s most highly acclaimed theatre actresses. She won the 1995 Laurence Olivier Award for her performance in “Sweet Bird of Youth,” as well as a London Critics Award for “Sweet Bird of Youth” and “The Children’s Hour.” Her greatest stage triumph to date has been “Vincent in Brixton” (2002), for which she won a second Olivier Award, a London Critics Theatre Award, a London Evening Standard Award. When the play moved to Broadway the following year, Higgins won a Theatre Award and nominations for a Tony, a Drama Desk, and an Outer Critics Circle Award. She garnered her third Olivier Award for “Hecuba” in 2005.
Movie fans know Higgins best for her legendary performance as the sinister Julia in the classic horror film Hellraiser, and its sequel, Hellbound: Hellraiser II. Her other films include 1919, The Fruit Machine, Thin Ice, Small Faces, B. Monkey, The House of Mirth, Stage Beauty, The Libertine, Bigger than the Sky, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont, and upcoming, The Golden Compass, with Nicole Kidman.
Higgins was born in Yorkshire, England and studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. After graduation, she headed to Manchester and the Royal Exchange Theatre. There she had leading roles in “The Deep Man,” “Measure for Measure,” and “A Streetcar Named Desire,” in which she played Stella. Higgins’ subsequent theatre credits include “Richard III,” “Napoli Milionaria,” “The Ride Down Mt. Morgan,” “The Absence of War,” “A Letter of Resignation,” “Present Laughter,” “The Seagull,” “The Tempest,” “The Walls,” and “The Secret Rapture.” Early on in her career, Higgins began appearing on British TV productions.
Her credits include Cover Her Face, Pride and Prejudice, The Citadel, After the War, Boon, Circle of Deceit, Men of the Month, Fatherland, The Absence of War, Kavanagh QC, Silent Witness, Heartbeat, The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones, The Secret, The Bill, M.I.T.: Murder Investigation Team, Casanova, Murder in Suburbia, Midsomer Murders, and Goldplated. Higgins was a regular on the comedy series Up Line.
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Actriz
Películas | |
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2018 |
Heretiks |
Ready Player One |
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2012 |
A Fantastic Fear of Everything |
2010 |
Toast (telepelícula) |
2008 |
Spring 1941 |
The Curse of Steptoe |
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2007 |
El sueño de Casandra |
La brújula dorada |
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2005 |
Bigger Than the Sky |
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont |
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2004 |
Belleza prohibida |
The Libertine |
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2000 |
La casa de la alegría |
1999 |
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Tales of Innocence |
1998 |
B. Monkey |
1996 |
Small Faces |
1995 |
The Absence of War (telepelícula) |
Thin Ice |
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1994 |
Fatherland (telepelícula) |
1993 |
Bad Behaviour |
Circle of Deceit (telepelícula) |
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1988 |
Hellbound: Hellraiser II |
The Fruit Machine |
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1987 |
Dreams Secrets Beautiful Lies (telepelícula) |
Hellraiser (Los que traen el infierno) |
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Up Line (telepelícula) |
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1985 |
1919 |
Documental | |
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2014 |
Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II |
Grabación teatral | |
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2010 |
Hamlet |
2009 |
All's Well That Ends Well |
Cortometraje | |
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2013 |
The Night of the Doctor |
Invitada
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2003 |
The 57th Annual Tony Awards |