Quick Facts
Biography
Claire Goose (born 10 February 1975 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish-born actress. She played nurse Tina Seabrook in the BBC television drama Casualty, DS Mel Silver in Waking the Dead. and Inspector Rachel Weston in ITV's The Bill. She also commentated on the TV show Road Wars.
Early life
Born in Edinburgh, Goose was raised in Dersingham, England, where her father worked as a general practitioner. She has an elder sister, Caroline, a nursery nurse, and an elder brother, Duncan, an entrepreneur who started up the "one water" company where all the profits go to the roundabout playpumps in Africa. Claire Goose is a former pupil of Wisbech Grammar School and a graduate of the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts.
Personal life
Married in 2007 to TV Producer Craig Woodrow, Claire has two daughters, Amelia, and Eveline.
Career
Early theatre roles included Addicted to Love, and Hitting Home with Colin Tarrant at the Man in the Moon Theatre, written by James Woolf and directed by Dave Gillies. She also appeared in early adverts for Impulse women's body spray.
She became well known in the UK in the late 1990s for her role as nurse Tina Seabrook in Casualty. She later replaced Gillian Taylforth from August 2008, playing Inspector Rachel Weston in ITV's The Bill.
In 2011 she appeared in BBC1 drama Exile with John Simm, and in 2015 appeared in the fourth series of Death in Paradise.
From 2015 she appears as the title character in the BBC Birmingham daytime drama The Coroner, set in the fictional coastal town of Lighthaven in south Devon.
Awards
| Awarding Body | Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Royal Television Society (Midlands awards) | 2016 | Best acting performance | Jane Kennedy in BBC series The Coroner | Won |
Filmography
- Loved Up in Men (1995)
- Casualty (nurse Tina Seabrook) for BBC Television (1997 - 2000)
- Alone (2001)
- Slap Bang (2001)
- Gifted (2003)
- Waking the Dead (DS Mel Silver) for BBC Television (2000–2004)
- L'Assommoir (Gervaise) for BBC Radio 4 (2004)
- Secret Smile (2005)
- Perfect Day (2005)
- Love Lies Bleeding (2006)
- Bad Day (2008)
- About a Dog (Sarah) for BBC Radio 4 (2007)
- The Bill (Inspector Rachel Weston) (TV series) (2008-2010)
- Road Wars (Narrator) (TV series) (2009-)
- Hustle Series 7 (Albert Stroller's Daughter) (Feb 2011)
- Exile (May 2011)
- Mount Pleasant (2012)
- Undeniable (2014) (Jane)
- New Tricks (TV series) (2014)
- Death in Paradise (TV series) (2015) (Katie Peters) Episode 4.2
- The Coroner (TV series) (2015-) (Jane Kennedy) title character
- The Rezort (2015)