Claire Skinner

Claire Skinner

Birth : 1964-10-07, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England, UK

History

Claire Skinner is a British stage, film and television actress, best known for her role as the hapless mother Sue Brockman in the BBC sitcom "Outnumbered". Her film work includes the Mike Leigh productions "Life Is Sweet" and "Naked", "Bridget Jones's Diary" and "Sleepy Hollow".

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Claire Skinner
Claire Skinner
Claire Skinner
Claire Skinner
Claire Skinner

Movies

Boxing Day
Auntie Caroline
Melvin, a British author living in America, returns home to London for Christmas to introduce his American fiancée Lisa to his eccentric British-Caribbean family. Their relationship is put to the test as she discovers the world her fiancé has left behind.
Oxide Ghosts: The Brass Eye Tapes
Only shown at live events, Oxide Ghosts: The Brass Eye Tapes is made from unseen sketches and outtakes from seminal British TV series Brass Eye.
Mr Understood
Linda
Sky Arts drama directed by Kate Hardie, based on conversations with Grayson Perry.
Shoot Me!
Claire
Images of female sexuality and the insecurities and attitudes that surround women and ageing. Plus the rather unusual affects certain indigestion tablets can have on one's tongue
Doctor Who: The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe
Madge Arwell
It's Christmas Eve, 1938, when Madge Arwell comes to the aid of an injured Spaceman Angel as she cycles home. He promises to repay her kindness - all she has to do is make a wish.
Eliminate: Archie Cookson
Camilla
A burnt-out British spy becomes the recipient of tapes implicating senior MI-6 officers in some light treason. Before he even knows what he has, most of his office has already been killed.
And When Did You Last See Your Father?
Gillian
The story of a son's conflicting memories of his dying father.
You Can Choose Your Friends
Jane Arden
Comedy drama about a family reunion written by and starring Richard Herring. It's Ken and Margaret Snell's 45th wedding anniversary and their children and grandchildren along gather to celebrate. For Ken and Margaret's children, it's a day to revisit childhood arguments and to paper over present-day fractures in their relationships.
The Trial of Tony Blair
Nicky
Biting political satire starring Robert Lindsay as a beleaguered Tony Blair, who stubbornly refuses to see the danger he faces from a Special Tribunal on Iraq that has been set up to investigate war crimes
Class of '76
Dr. Kate Tremaine
Inspector Tom Monroe (Robert Carlyle) investigates the mysterious death of several people that the only thing they have in common is being classmates. In addition, the deaths appear to be related to a mysterious "faceless child."
Strings
Jhinna (voice)
Strings is a mythological story about the son of a king, Hal Tara, who sets out on a journey to avenge the death of his father. To his surprise he discovers the truth of his own people - and where he least expects it - he finds true love.
The Booze Cruise
Leonie Sewell
A group of men from Kent; Clive (Martin Clunes), Rob (Neil Pearson), Dave (Mark Benton), Maurice (Brian Murphy) and Daniel (Ben Whishaw) - go on a booze cruise to France, with mixed success and many mishaps along the way. Events involving their wives and families back home also form a large part of the plot.
Eroica
Josephine Deym
British filmmaker Simon Cellan Jones directs the BBC drama Eroica, starring Ian Hart as Ludwig van Beethoven. Shot on digital video, this TV film depicts the first performance of Beethoven's Third Symphony, June 9th, 1804, in Vienna, Austria. Prince Lobkowitz (Jack Davenport) has invited friends to listen to Beethoven conduct his new symphony for the first time. Among the aristocratic attendees are Count Dietrichstein (Tim Pigott-Smith), Countess Brunsvik (Claire Skinner), and composer Josef Haydn (Frank Finlay). The actual musical score is performed by the Orchestre Revolutionaire et Romantique, under the direction of John Eliot Gardiner.
Bridget Jones's Diary
Magda
A chaotic Bridget Jones meets a snobbish lawyer, and he soon enters her world of imperfections.
Sleepy Hollow
Beth Killian
New York detective Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of mysterious deaths in which the victims are found beheaded. Locals believe the culprit to be none other than the legendary Headless Horseman.
The Escort
Patricia
A movie about a middle aged french man who after a family crisis travels on the spur of the moment to London only to get caught up in the male prostitution business and eventually drugs.
You're Dead...
Jo
A veteran bank robber and his sidekicks plan a heist that goes awry.
Clockwork Mice
Fairy
When new teacher Steve Drake joins the faculty at a school for special-needs students, his unorthodox instruction methods raise eyebrows. But attitudes begin to change when he makes a connection with a particularly unruly student.
I.D.
Marie
Four policemen go undercover and infiltrate a gang of football hooligans hoping to route out their leaders. For one of the four, the line between 'job' and 'yob' becomes more unclear as time passes . . .
The Return of the Native
Thomasin
Eustacia Vye, an exquisite beauty despairing at her boring life on an English moor, sets up a fateful lovers' triangle when she uses her wiles to entice two men, a dashing suitor and a successful man who made his name abroad and returned to his home on the heath.
Two Golden Balls
Linda
A repressed anti-porn campaigner meets a glamorous American porn actress who changes her outlook on life.
Naked
Sandra
An unemployed Brit vents his rage on unsuspecting strangers as he embarks on a nocturnal London odyssey.
Life Is Sweet
Natalie
Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop, Andy is a cook who forever puts off home remodeling projects, Natalie is a plumber and Nicola is jobless. This film is about how they interact and play out family, conflict and love.
The Rachel Papers
Gloria
Poised to attend Oxford University, 19-year-old Charles Highway decides it's high time to have a romantic encounter with an older woman. With the help of a computer program and several eccentric relatives, Highway sets his sights on seducing Rachel Noyce, a stunning American in her 20s. However, Highway has his work cut out for him. Noyce has a boyfriend, DeForest, and is not exactly receptive to Highway's advances — at first, anyway.