Personal Info
Birth date
1964-01-12 (61 Years)
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
London, England, UK
Also known as
Clare Margaret Holman
Claire Holman
کلر هولمن
Clare Holman
Biography
Clare Margaret Holman (born 12 January 1964) is an English actress. She portrayed forensic pathologist Dr. Laura Hobson in the crime drama series Inspector Morse and its spin-off Lewis from 1995 to 2015.
Filmography
Midsomer Murders
7.5
Overview:
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.Death in Paradise
7.439
Overview:
A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint-Marie.Silent Witness
7.6
Overview:
Silent Witness is a British crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes.The Crown
8.2
Overview:
The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
6.2
Overview:
The Ruth Rendell mysteries is a British television series made by TVS and Meridian Television for ITV between 2 August 1987 and 11 October 2000.Lewis
7.575
Overview:
Inspector Robert Lewis and Sergeant James Hathaway solve the tough cases that the learned inhabitants of Oxford throw at them.The Little Drummer Girl
7.048
Overview:
Brilliant young actress Charlie strikes up an acquaintance with an intriguing stranger while on holiday in Greece, but it rapidly becomes apparent that his intentions are far from romantic.Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
5
Overview:
Antiques experts accompany celebrities on a road trip around the UK searching for treasures and competing to make the most money at auctionPrime Suspect
7.7
Overview:
Highly skilled Detective Inspector Jane Tennison battles to prove herself in a male dominated world.Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
6.429
Overview:
An animated adaptation of twelve of Shakespeare's best-known plays. The series was produced by S4C for the BBC, but animated by some of the foremost artists of Soyuzmultfilm, the former Soviet Union's main animation studio. Each 26-minute play is directed by a different animator, in a wide variety of styles: cel animation for Macbeth, stop-motion puppets in Twelfth Night, and paint on glass for Hamlet.Heartbeat
7.125
Overview:
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.Agatha Raisin
6.1
Overview:
Burnt out on office politics, Agatha Raisin retires early to a picturesque village in the Cotswolds and soon finds a second career as an amateur detective investigating mischief, mayhem, and murder in her deceptively quaint town.Treason
6.785
Overview:
An MI6 deputy's bright future takes a sharp turn after a reunion with a Russian spy forces him to question his entire life.Henry VIII
6.867
Overview:
The life of Henry VIII of England from the disintegration of his first marriage to an aging Spanish princess until his death following a stroke in 1547, by which time he had married for the sixth time.Out of the Blue
NYR
Overview:
Out of the Blue follows a team of detectives at Brazen Gate CID through grisly murder cases, clashes with an already-divided community and through the dramas of their personal lives.David Copperfield
7.1
Overview:
The tale of David Copperfield from his birth and idyllic upbringing through hardship and adventure leading to his eventual discovery of his vocation as a novelist. On his journey David encounters a gallery of Dickens' most memorable characters, including Mr. Micawber, Uriah Heep, Steerforth, and others.New Tricks
7.4
Overview:
New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad of the Metropolitan Police Service. Originally led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, it is made up of retired police officers who have been recruited to reinvestigate unsolved crimes.Sherwood
7
Overview:
Old grudges, new rivalries. A tangled web of murder and revenge spirals in a fractured Nottinghamshire mining community. Powerful drama with Lesley Manville and David Morrissey.Island at War
7.6
Overview:
Island at War is a British television series that tells the story of the German Occupation of the Channel Islands. It primarily focuses on three local families: the upper class Dorrs, the middle class Mahys and the working class Jonases, and four German officers. The fictional island of St. Gregory serves as a stand-in for the real-life islands Jersey and Guernsey, and the story is compiled from the events on both islands. Produced by Granada Television in Manchester, Island at War had an estimated budget of £9,000,000 and was filmed on location in the Isle of Man from August 2003 to October 2003. When the series was shown in the UK, it appeared in six 70-minute episodes.Kid in the Corner
NYR
Overview:
As a couple struggles to cope with the difficulties of raising a child with Attention Deficit Disorder, they fight with a society that can’t agree on what do to with him.The Ghost Squad
6.4
Overview:
The Ghost Squad was a 2005 British crime drama series produced by Company Pictures, for Channel 4. The show was created by Tom Grieves. Inspired by the real life "Ghost Squad" that existed between 1994 and 1998, secretly investigating police corruption, the premise of the series is that the squad continued to operate in secret after officially being shut down. It starred Elaine Cassidy as a police constable recruited into the squad and Jonas Armstrong as her handler. The show was cancelled after a single seven episode series.King & Conqueror
NYR
Overview:
The story of a clash that defined the future of a country – and a continent – for a thousand years. Harold of Wessex and William of Normandy were two men destined to meet at the Battle of Hastings in 1066; two allies with no design on the British throne found themselves forced by circumstance and personal obsession into a war for possession of its crown.Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes
7.8
Overview:
If Arthur Conan Doyle based Sherlock Holmes on a real person to any degree, it was on his former professor, forensic pathologist Dr. Joseph Bell. This series recounts the fictional murder investigations that Bell might have undertaken with the assistance of young student Doyle.The Lakes
7.2
Overview:
Compelling BBC1 drama series embracing sex, death and Catholic guilt, set in a small community in the Lake District. The first four-part series centred on newcomer Danny Kavanagh; the second 10-part series featured other characters in the community.Big Women
2
Overview:
Drama series centring the establishment of a feminist publishing house from the 1970s to the 1990s.The Rainbow
3
Overview:
Ursula Brangwen is the beautiful, naive daughter of a wealthy country squire, one of five children living in the Nottinghamshire mining heartland at the turn of the century. From wide-eyed sixteen-year-old to fully grown woman, the drama follows Ursula through the trials and tribulations of her burgeoning personal relationships in her quest to find fulfilment for her developing passionate and sensual nature. Adaptation of DH Lawrence's novel.Killer Heat
5.8
Overview:
An expat PI is hired to investigate a suspicious death in Crete, Greece, where jealousies run deep amongst the victim's powerful family.Acting
TBAKing & Conqueror (1 Episode) as Gytha
2024Killer Heat as Audrey Vardakis
2022Treason (3 Episodes) as Mary Angelis
2022Hilma as Unknown
2022Sherwood (3 Episodes) as Helen St Clair
2021Censor as June
2018The Little Drummer Girl (6 Episodes) as Miss Bach
2017Waiting for You as Janet
2016The Crown (1 Episode) as Princess Marina
2016Agatha Raisin (1 Episode) as Robin Barley
2015Suite Française as Marthe
2011Death in Paradise (1 Episode) as Molly Kerr
2011Celebrity Antiques Road Trip (1 Episode) as Self - Participant
2009Hunter (2 Episodes) as Dr. Margaret Newell
2008Fallout as DCI Craney
2007Fallen Angel (3 Episodes) as Wendy
2007Lewis (41 Episodes) as Dr. Laura Hobson
2006Eleventh Hour (1 Episode) as Unknown
2005The Ghost Squad (1 Episode) as Unknown
2005Dot.Kill as Mary Daines
2004Island at War (6 Episodes) as Felicity Dorr
2004New Tricks (1 Episode) as Unknown
2003Henry VIII (2 Episodes) as Catherine Parr
2003Sparkling Cyanide as Alexandra Farraday
2001Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes (1 Episode) as Elspeth
2001Messiah (2 Episodes) as Jaine Ellis
2001The Innocent as Alison Huntley
1999David Copperfield (1 Episode) as Rosa Dartle
1999Kid in the Corner (3 Episodes) as Theresa Letts
1999Love in the 21st Century (1 Episode) as Sarah
1998Big Women (4 Episodes) as Zoe
1997The Lakes (14 Episodes) as Simone Fisher
1997Midsomer Murders (1, 1, 1 Episode) as Rose Southerly, Fiona Beauvoisin, Sue Tutt
1996Looking for Richard as Self
1996Giving Tongue as Jesse Fielding MP
1996Frontiers (1 Episode) as DI Louise Raynor
1996Silent Witness (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1995Out of the Blue (1 Episode) as Barbara Garnham
1994Tom & Viv as Louise Purdon
1992Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (1 Episode) as Juliet (voice)
1992Heartbeat (1 Episode) as Sheena Buckley
1991Afraid of the Dark as Rose
1991Let Him Have It as Iris Bentley
1991Prime Suspect (2 Episodes) as Elizabeth Lukic
1990Circles Of Deceit as Clio
1990Close Relations as Jenny
1989The Woman in Black as Stella Kidd
1989Shalom Salaam as Jackie
1989The Fifteen Streets as Mary Llewellyn
1988The Rainbow (3 Episodes) as Gudrun Brangwen
1987The Ruth Rendell Mysteries (1 Episode) as Fay Devenish