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Clare Corbett
NationalityBritish
OccupationActress

Clare Corbett is a British actress, and is a winner (2000) of a Carleton Hobbs Radio Award.[1] She studied at the Welsh College of Music and Drama[2] and has appeared in television programmes such as Casualty, Eastenders and Doctors,[3] as well as a number of radio plays (including Absolute Power, Venus and Adonis and Dr. Zhivago),[4] and video games, including the Dark Souls series along with other Soulslikes by FromSoftware.

She has narrated numerous audiobooks including Vanessa and Her Sister, Shopaholic to the Stars,[4] and The Girl on the Train,[5] which won the 2016 Audie Award for Audiobook of the Year.[6]

In 2017 she was nominated for "Best Supporting Actor/Actress" in the BBC Audio Drama Awards[7] for her role as Franciska Lazar in the drama serial Keeping the Wolf Out.

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
2001 Raw Lorna
2006 Journeys Close to Home Girl Voice role. Short film
2010 Sookie & Finn: Our Day Finn / Luke Short film
2016 Wrong Way Forward Myra Short film

Television

Year Title Role Notes
2003 40 Nurse 1 episode
Final Demand Selena TV Movie
Sucked Up Narrator TV short
2003-2007 Casualty Midwife / Janie Jones 2 episodes
2004 Spooks Teacher 1 episode
2005 The Bill Hailey Brown Episode: "Won't Take it Lying Down"
2007 Doctors Penny Ederer Episode: "Broken"
2010-2011 Chuggington ChugNav Voice role. 2 episodes
2011 EastEnders Paramedic 1 1 episode
2013 Holby City Naomi Court Episode: "If I Needed Someone"
2020 Spitting Image Prince George / Princess Charlotte / Anneliese Dodds 3 episodes

Video games

Year Title Role Notes
2004 World of Warcraft
2006 Rule of Rose Amanda
2009 Demon's Souls Saint Astraea
2011 Dark Souls Itinerant Merchant Woman / Gwynevere / Priscillia the Dragon Crossbreed
2014 Dark Souls II Alsanna Scholar of the First Sin DLC
Lego the Hobbit: The Video Game Additional Voices
LittleBigPlanet 3 Hildur
2016 Dark Souls III Pickle Pee, Pump-a-Rum Crow
2017 The Surge
Total War: Warhammer II
Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Floren / Electra
2018 Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom
League of Angels III
World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth
Battlefield V
2019 GreedFall Minor characters
Another Eden Melina, Melina AS and Melina ES [8]
2021 It Takes Two Rose
2022 Elden Ring Irina, Hyetta

Audiobooks (partial list)

  • Night Music (2009)
  • I've Got Your Number (2012)
  • Dying Fall: A Ruth Galloway Investigation (Book 5) (2013)
  • The Outcast Dead: A Ruth Galloway Investigation (Book 6) (2014)
  • Shopaholic to the Stars (2014)
  • The Girl on the Train (2015)
  • The Ghost Fields: A Ruth Galloway Investigation (Book 7) (2015)
  • Vanessa and Her Sister (2015)
  • Demelza (Poldark Book 2) (2015)
  • The Widow (2016)
  • Revenger (2016)
  • The Child (2017)
  • Her Frozen Heart (2017)
  • The Hunting Party (2018)
  • The Rumour (2018)
  • Doctor Who: The Good Doctor (2018)
  • The Feed (2018)
  • The Suspect (2019)
  • Lanny (2019)
  • Flights (2019)

References

  1. ^ "BBC - Soundstart - Previous Carleton Hobbs Bursary Award Winners".
  2. ^ "Audiobook Special: An interview with Clare Corbett, courtesy of Quercus Books". ccthelowdown.blogspot.co.uk. Retrieved 29 May 2017.
  3. ^ "Clare Corbett". IMDb. Retrieved 29 May 2017.
  4. ^ a b "Clare Corbett | Narrator | Penguin Random House Audio". www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com. Retrieved 29 May 2017.
  5. ^ "Meet the Cast: The girls from Paula Hawkins' THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN (Exclusive Audio Clips) | Books on Tape". Retrieved 29 May 2017.
  6. ^ "The Year's Best Audiobooks: 2016 Audie Award Winners". The Booklist Reader. 11 May 2016. Retrieved 29 May 2017.
  7. ^ "BBC Audio Drama Awards - The 2017 Shortlist - BBC Radio 4". BBC. Retrieved 29 May 2017.
  8. ^ "Clare Corbett (visual voices guide)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved 28 August 2021. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its opening and/or closing credits and/or other reliable sources of information.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)