Clare Higgins

Clare Higgins

Nascimento : 1955-11-10, Bradford, Yorkshire, England

História

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.

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Filmes

As Hereges
Reverend Mother
Durante o século XVII, uma jovem é salva da morte por execução e levada a um convento para se arrepender de seus pecados, porém o local guarda um grande mal.
Jogador N° 1
Mrs. Gilmore
Num futuro distópico, situado em 2044, Wade Watts, como o resto da humanidade, prefere a realidade virtual do jogo OASIS ao mundo real. No jogo, seus usuários devem descobrir a chave de um quebra-cabeça diabólico, baseado na cultura do final do século XX, para conquistar um prêmio de valor inestimável. Para vencê-lo, porém, Watts terá de abandonar a existência virtual e ceder a uma vida de amor e realidade da qual sempre tentou fugir.
Leviathan: The Story of Hellbound: Hellraiser II
Self
Leviathan: The Story of Hellbound: Hellraiser II is a feature length documentary uncovering the history and the making of Clive Barker's Hellbound: Hellraiser II. Released on three DVDs, part two looks in-depth at Hellbound.
Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II
Herself
Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II is a feature length documentary uncovering the history and the making of Clive Barker's Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II films.
Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor
Ohila
The Doctor struggles to help the only remaining crewmember of a crashing gunship. The people of the planet below offer to save his life, but at a dear cost to the life he's lived for hundreds of years.
Dou-lhes um Ano
Elaine
Apesar das diferenças, Nat (Rose Byrne) e Josh (Rafe Spall) parecem felizes casados. Famílias e amigos não concordam e têm certeza que a separação é apenas questão de tempo. Perto de completarem bodas de papel, eles encaram o desgaste da relação e as tentações parecem maiores do que nunca. Será que todos tinham razão?
Parade's End
In the years before the First World War, three Britons are drawn into fraught and ultimately tragic relations: Anglican Christopher Tietjens, second son of the lord of the manor of Groby, Yorkshire, who is a disconsolate, Tory statistician in London; Catholic Sylvia Satterthwaite, his promiscuous and self-centered socialite wife who has married him only to hide the fact that their son is not really his; and freethinking Valentine Wannop, a young suffragette and daughter of a lady novelist, who is torn between her idealism and her attraction to "Chrissy". As the war works a profound change on Europe, and Chrissy is badly wounded in France, the conflict shatters and rearranges the lives of all three principals, as well as virtually everyone else in their elite circle.
Um Fantástico Medo de Tudo
Clair De Grunwald
Um autor de livros infantis (Pegg) que decide virar escritor de romances de mistério. Sua pesquisa sobre assassinos em série da era vitoriana o transforma em um paranoico - especialmente quando um executivo de Hollywood decide fazer um filme com base nas descobertas do escritor.
A História de uma Criança com Fome
Mavis
Desde criança, Nigel é fascinado por culinária, embora sua mãe só soubesse preparar torradas. Quando ela morre, o pai de Nigel se casa com uma mulher que é ótima cozinheira. Nigel passa a competir com a madrasta na cozinha pela atenção do pai.
National Theatre Live: Hamlet
Gertrude
National Theatre Live’s 2010 broadcast of Hamlet returns to cinemas as part of the National Theatre's 50th anniversary celebrations. Following his celebrated performances at the National Theatre in Burnt by the Sun, The Revenger's Tragedy, Philistines and The Man of Mode, Rory Kinnear plays Hamlet in a dynamic new production of Shakespeare’s complex and profound play about the human condition, directed by Nicholas Hytner. He is joined by Clare Higgins (Gertrude), Patrick Malahide (Claudius), David Calder (Polonius), James Laurenson (Ghost/Player King) and Ruth Negga (Ophelia).
National Theatre Live: All's Well That Ends Well
Countess of Rosillion
National Theatre Live is an initiative operated by the Royal National Theatre in London, which broadcasts live via satellite, performances of their productions to movie theaters, cinemas and arts centres on the world. The second production, All's Well That Ends Well, showed at a total of around 300 screens, and today, the number of venues that show NT Live productions has grown to around 700.
The Curse of Steptoe
Joan Littlewood
In the early 1960s aspiring stage actor Harry H. Corbett jumps at the chance to play junk-dealer Harold Steptoe in a television comedy show 'Steptoe and Son'. However, the show's success proves to be a poisoned chalice for him, type-casting him and thwarting his stage ambitions. Wilfrid Brambell, the actor playing his father, is marginalized in a different way. He is a gay man in an England where homosexuality is still illegal.
A Bússola de Ouro
Ma Coster
Lyra Belacqua (Dakota Blue Richards) é uma órfã que foi criada na Universidade Oxford. No mundo em que vive todas as pessoas têm um "daemon", ou seja, uma manifestação de sua própria alma em forma animal. Lyra leva uma vida tranqüila até ela e seu daemon, Pantalaimon, descobrirem a existência de uma substância misteriosa chamada "pó". Isto provoca um estranho efeito nas crianças, o que faz com que as autoridades religiosas se convençam de que representa o mal. Seguindo o misterioso Lorde Asriel (Daniel Craig), seu protetor, Lyra parte em busca de uma resposta. Em Londres ela descobre que diversas crianças estão desaparecendo, entre elas Roger (Ben Walker), seu melhor amigo. Com a ajuda de um instrumento ancestral, que se parece com uma bússola de ouro, ela parte numa jornada que pode alterar o mundo para sempre.
The Stronger
Mrs. X
Who is stronger: The wife or the mistress?
Spring 1941
Clara Planck
After Germany invades Poland and the Nazis order the confinement of all local Jews in the ghetto, medical doctor Artur Planck (Joseph Fiennes) manages to flee with his family, seeking refuge at the farm of Emilia (Kelly Harrison), their former grocer. With the Planck family hiding in her attic, Emilia finds her feelings for the physician growing stronger than she wants, or can control -- despite the dangers of the situation.
O Sonho de Cassandra
Mother
Dois irmãos estão ávidos para melhorar suas vidas. Terry (Farrell) é um jogador compulsivo afogado em dividas e Ian (McGregor) é o jovem sonhador que se apaixona pela bela atriz Angela Stark. Seu tio milionário torna suas vidas, pouco a pouco, em um emaranhando de intrigas e interesses com resultados desastrosos.
Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont
Mrs. Meyer
All but abandoned by her family in a London retirement hotel, an elderly woman strikes up a curious friendship with a young writer.
Bigger Than the Sky
Edwina Walters
After being dumped by his girlfriend, a man stuck in a deadend life decides to audition for a small role in a local community theatre's production of Cyrano de Bergerac. Despite having no experience as an actor, he lands the lead role, which wreaks havoc upon his life.
O Libertino
Molly Luscombe
Em Londres, 1660, John Wilmot, o Conde de Rochester e amigo do Rei Charles II, é um gênio literário de comportamento irreverente. Ele escandaliza a sociedade londrina ao se dispor a transformar uma prostituta em artista famosa.
A Bela do Palco
Mistress Revels
Em 1660, quando os papéis femininos nas peças de teatro eram interpretados por homens, Edwars Ned Kynaston (Bill Crudup) é o ator inglês mais conhecido por interpretar mulheres graças ao seu talento e beleza. Mas quando o Rei Charles II se cansa de sempre ver os mesmos atores nos palcos, ele exige que mulheres de verdade interpretem papéis femininos nos espetáculos. Nisso, Ned perde sua função de celebridade, se torna automaticamente, um Zé Ninguém. O suicídio parece iminente ao ator até que sua ex-camareira que se tornou atriz (Claire Danes) faz com que ele se torne um homem novamente.
Vincent in Brixton
Ursula Loyer
Based on Nicholas Wright's 2002 play exploring the life of the young Vincent Van Gogh during a stay in Brixton, London in 1873. In the play, which is largely fictional, he falls in love with an English widow.
A Essência da Paixão
Mrs. Bry
A woman risks losing her chance of happiness with the only man she has ever loved.
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Tales of Innocence
Edith Wharton
In the sixteenth film in the series, in 1917, Indiana Jones is working to get Austrian deserters safely to the allies side in the Italian Alps. In his spare time, he is wooing an Italian beauty named Guiletta. When he finds out another man is vying for her attention, Indy and his new pal, ambulance driver Ernest Hemingway, make plans to crush Indiana's competitor by smothering Guiletta with presents and compliments. Afterwards, Indiana is begrudgingly ordered to Casablanca to find a traitor who is selling arms to the Berber rebels. Traveling incognito, he is joined by American novelist Edith Wharton and journalist Lowell Thomas. Indy and Edith soon find themselves attracted to each other despite their age difference.
B. Monkey
Ms. Cherry
When wistful introvert Alan Furnace meets quick-witted bombshell Beatrice, he has no idea of her secret life as "B. Monkey" -- the top thief-for-hire in London's criminal underworld. Charmed by Furnace's innocent and chivalrous ways, Beatrice resolves to reform. But to cash in on her first chance at real love, she must escape her former partner in crime, the ruthless Paul Neville -- and a dark past that seems to haunt her every step.
Small Faces
Lorna Maclean
Three teenage brothers, gang-member Bobby, troubled mama's boy Alan and self-assured prankster Lex, reside in a downtrodden section of Glasgow, Scotland, circa 1968. But while Bobby and Alan are beginning to experience the power of raging hormones, the story focuses on Lex, who begins a downward spiral after he accidentally shoots the leader of Bobby's gang. Lex's cockiness and immaturity unfortunately prevent him from understanding the effect his subsequent crimes will have on both himself, and on those around him.
The Absence of War
Political drama written by David Hare and starring John Thaw and based on Labour's disastrous 1992 election campaign. Labour leader George Jones battles with his party on the campaign trail of a general election.
A Nação do Medo
Klara
Se parte da premissa que a Alemanha venceu a 2ª Guerra Mundial, após repelir o ataque dos aliados no Dia D. A ação se desenrola em uma Alemanha fictícia dos anos 60, que estando em guerra com a União Soviética precisa se aliar aos Estados Unidos e deve receber o presidente americano para selar o pacto. Um oficial da SS, Xavier March (Rutger Hauer) começa a ficar intrigado com certos "suicídios" e "acidentes" e, com Charlie Maguire (Miranda Richardson), uma repórter americana, começa a investigar as mortes, que escondem uma verdade tão grave que pode comprometer a aliança.
Men of the Month
Fiona
Tracey, a hyperactive, inarticulate bicycle courier who unsuccessfully woos his girlfriend, watches Star Trek videos and delivers packages for a women's erotic magazine, "Bad and Beautiful". As the female staff produce their new issue, they are watched by builders restoring their crumbling off ice block - each of them with an interest in the women within.
Os Malcomportados
Jessica Kennedy
The McAllister family house is the setting for Gerry and Ellie's grapples with work, children and how to get the bathroom fixed. Both have reached the stage where reason cannot be heard above the ticking clock of experience and ambition. When temptation comes, how will they react?
After the War
Rachel Jordan
The life and career of Michael Jordan contrasts with that of Joe Hirsch. One is born into a comfortable middle class family, the other a refugee. Their stories cross and parallel over 25-years from the end of the Second World War onwards, taking in British social change as they go.
Hellraiser II: Renascido das Trevas
Julia Cotton
Após enfrentar os monstros sadomasoquistas do inferno que mataram sua família, a jovem Kristy (Ashley Laurence) está em um hospital psiquiátrico, onde não acreditam em sua história. Mas mal sabe ela que o diretor da clínica, Dr. Channard (Kenneth Cranham) é um profundo estudioso do apavorante mundo que Kristy conheceu. Disposto a conhecer tudo por trás dessa história, ele traz de volta a terrível madrasta de Kristy, Julia (Clare Higgins), que passa a matar inocentes. Agora, a jovem se vê novamente correndo risco de passar a eternidade no pior de seus pesadelos.
The Fruit Machine
Eve
Eddie and Michael are two 16-year-old gay friends from Liverpool. Berated by his father for his camp behavior, Eddie runs away from his Liverpool home and joins Michael, a streetwise hustler, who is also on the run.
Hellraiser: Renascido do Inferno
Julia Cotton
Larry e Julia mudam-se para uma velha casa. Lá, descobrem uma horrível criatura, que na verdade é Frank, meio-irmão de Larry e antigo amante de Julia. Frank perdeu seu corpo humano para os Cenobites, um trio de repulsivos demônios. Uma gota de sangue desperta Frank, que força sua antiga namorada a trazer vítimas para que ele possa novamente reconstituir seu corpo.
Up Line
Fizzy Targett
Three alternative comedians get involved in a pyramid-selling organization, Pathway, in order to finance their act. They gain great success by deploying their skills as entertainers, only to eventually discover the sinister purpose behind the Pathway organization.
Nineteen Nineteen
Young Sophie
Two former patients of Sigmund Freud meet again and discuss their psychiatric treatment 65 years earlier.
Unity
Annie MacFarlane
Period Drama. The true story of Unity Mitford who in the 1930's went to live in Germany and was friends with Adolf Hitler.