Clare Frances Elizabeth Higgins (born 10 November 1955) is an award-winning English actress. Description above from the Wikipedia article Clare Higgins, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

KNOWN FOR

Midsomer Murders
2005
Doctor Who
2015
Silent Witness
1996
Vera
2019
Tony Awards
1996
The Bill
2000
Father Brown
2014
The Witcher
2023
Heartbeat
1996
Downton Abbey
2012
Screen Two
1995
Shameless
2012

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
73
Writing
1
2026
Gone
2025
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
as Self (archive footage)
2024
Trying
as Bev
2022
Dangerous Liaisons
as Madame Jericho
2022
The Sandman
as Mad Hettie
2019
Vera
as Elaine Sidden
2018
The Convent
as Reverend Mother
2018
Ready Player One
as Mrs. Gilmore
2018
The Bisexual
as Grace
2017
The Worst Witch
as Miss Ada Cackle
2017
Liar
as Felicity Cassidy
2015
Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II
as Self
2015
Doctor Who
as Ohila
2014
New Tricks
as Francis Kane
2014
Father Brown
as Dinah Fortescue
2014
Rogue
as Vivian
2013
I Give It a Year
as Elaine
2013
Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor
as Ohila
2012
A Fantastic Fear of Everything
as Clair De Grunwald
2012
Downton Abbey
as Mrs. Bartlett
2012
Shameless
as Hazel
2010
Toast
as Mavis
2010
National Theatre Live: Hamlet
as Gertrude
2009
National Theatre Live: All's Well That Ends Well
as Countess of Rosillion
2009
Being Human
as Josie
2008
The Curse of Steptoe
as Joan Littlewood
2008
Midsomer Murders
as Medea (voice)
2007
The Golden Compass
as Ma Coster
2007
Cassandra's Dream
as Mother
2007
Spring 1941
as Clara Planck
2007
The Stronger
as Mrs. X
2005
Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont
as Mrs. Meyer
2005
Bigger Than the Sky
as Edwina Walters
2005
Midsomer Murders
as Gina Colby
2005
Murder Investigation Team
as Lesley Pattison
2005
Casanova
as Cook
2005
Murder in Suburbia
as Helen Whittle
2004
The Libertine
as Molly Luscombe
2004
Stage Beauty
as Mistress Revels
2003
Vincent in Brixton
as Ursula Loyer
2000
The House of Mirth
as Mrs. Bry
2000
The Bill
2000
The Secret
as Maggie Hewitt
1999
B. Monkey
as Ms. Cherry
1999
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Tales of Innocence
as Edith Wharton
1998
Screen Two
as Lorna Maclean
1996
Small Faces
as Lorna Maclean
1996
Silent Witness
as D.S. Farmer
1996
Heartbeat
as Maureen Bristow
1996
Kavanagh Q.C.
as Susannah Dixon QC
1996
Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee
1995
The Absence of War
as Lindsay Fontaine
1995
Thin Ice
as Fiona
1995
Screen Two
as Lindsey Fontaine
1994
Men of the Month
as Fiona
1994
Fatherland
as Klara
1994
Screen Two
as Fiona
1993
Circles of Deceit
as Eilish
1993
Bad Behavior
as Jessica Kennedy
1989
After the War
as Rachel Lucas
1988
Hellbound: Hellraiser II
as Julia Cotton
1988
The Fruit Machine
as Eve
1987
Hellraiser
as Julia
1987
Up Line
as Fizzy Targett
1986
Hideaway
1985
Nineteen Nineteen
as Young Sophie
1985
Cover Her Face
as Catherine Bowers
1984
Mitch
as Jo
1983
The Citadel
as Christine Barlow
1981
Unity
as Annie MacFarlane
1981
Playhouse
as Annie MacFarlane
1981
Plays for Pleasure
as Ann
1980
Pride and Prejudice
as Catherine 'Kitty' Bennet