Clare Perkins

Clare Perkins is an English actress, known for her roles as Denise Boulter in Family Affairs and Ava Hartman in EastEnders.

Career TV Perkins' first role was as Opal in the 1991 TV film Hallelujah Anyhow in the Screen Two strand. On TV she has appeared in Family Affairs, All in the Game, My Wonderful Life, Pig Heart Boy, Casualty, EastEnders, Men Behaving Badly, Big Women, and Clapham Junction.

She played the role of Ava Hartman in EastEnders.

She played Kerene Nagashi in the Amazon fantasy series The Wheel of Time.

In 2021, she appeared in the horror film Censor, and stars in the TV comedy-drama The Outlaws, which was first broadcast in that year.

Perkins plays Carla McLain in the Apple+ science fiction drama series Silo from 2023.

Radio Perkins has been a member of the BBC Radio Drama Company, and played the character of Mel for eight years in the BBC World Service soap Westway.

In 2011, she performed in many radio dramas for Radio 4, including The Winter House, Landfall, Corrinne Come Back and Gone, and Best Intentions.

From 2021, she played Denise Metcalf, a veterinary nurse, in the long-running radio soap opera The Archers.

Film Her film credits include Jill in the Palme d'Or-winning Ladybird, Ladybird (Ken Loach), Secrets & Lies (Mike Leigh), Bullet Boy (Saul Dibb) and 7 Lives. She played Beverly in the film Bullet Boy, which opened the London Film Festival in 2004; she won Best Actress for this role at the Screen Nation Awards.

Stage Perkins has appeared on stage in many theatres, such as the Royal Court, Young Vic, National Theatre, and Soho Theatre. Perkins was in two West End productions in 2019 – Emilia which transferred from The Globe, and Sweat, which transferred from the Donmar Warehouse, with the consequence that at one point her face was on the front of two West End theatres simultaneously for a month, The Vaudeville and The Gielgud; it is believed that she is the only actress to achieve this.

Filmography

Film Year Title RoleNotes 1994 Ladybird, Ladybird Jill 1996 Secrets & Lies Hortense's Sister-in-Law 2004 Bullet Boy Beverley 2006 Shoot the Messenger Mary Gibbs 2007 Deadmeat De Costa 2009 Normal: The Düsseldorf Ripper Nurse Susan 2011 7 Lives Kids Mum 2016 Kaleidoscope Launderette Assistant 2018 Been So Long Snowqueen 2021 Censor Anne 2022 Medusa Deluxe Cleve Love Without Walls Faye Post-production

Television

Theatre