---
name: "Clare Coulter"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/clare-coulter"
fi1m_id: "clare-coulter"
imdb_id: "nm0183504"
tmdb_id: 1025076
wikidata_id: "Q18642525"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "1 January 1942"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 71
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-01T19:33:33.082846+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Clare Coulter

## Identity

Clare Coulter

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/clare-coulter
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** clare-coulter
- **IMDb ID:** nm0183504
- **TMDB ID:** 1025076
- **Wikidata ID:** Q18642525
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Coulter, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18642525, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0183504/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1025076

Actor. Born 1 January 1942 in Ontario.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 1 January 1942, Ontario
- **Active:** 2007–present
- **Average Fi1m score:** 71, as actor, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 82 (1), 2020s 66 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 71 to 74 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 1 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Comedy 1, History 1, Romance 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $38m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Coulter, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18642525, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0183504/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1025076

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Die My Love*](https://film.one/film/die-my-love.md) (71)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Clare Coulter is a Canadian actress born in 1942 in Ontario. The daughter of playwright John Coulter and his wife Olive, she began working in the props department at the Stratford Festival at the age of 15 and remained there until she was 21. She trained at a theatre school in England after her family moved to London when she was nine.

Coulter has worked extensively in Canadian theatre, particularly at Toronto venues such as Tarragon Theatre and Theatre Passe Muraille. She has performed at the Stratford Festival and is noted for stage roles including a female portrayal of King Lear in 2013. She received a Dora Mavor Moore Award in 1984 for her performance in Caryl Churchill's *Top Girls*.

Her screen credits include *By Design* (1981), *Away from Her* (2007), *Fargo* (2014) as Irma, *The Apprentice* (2024) as Tenant Ms. Nathanson and *Die My Love* (2025) as Courtney, alongside appearances in series such as *Severance*, *Star Trek: Discovery* and *Three Pines*.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, canadiantheatre.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Die My Love* (2025), Fi1m 71, as Courtney — [page](https://film.one/film/die-my-love.md)
- *The Apprentice* (2024), Fi1m 61, as Tenant Ms. Nathanson — [page](https://film.one/film/the-apprentice.md)
- *Away from Her* (2007), Fi1m 82, as Phoebe Hart — [page](https://film.one/film/away-from-her.md)

## Complete filmography (42)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Permanent Damage* (2026), as Mrs. Whynot
- *Die My Love* (2025), as Courtney — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/film/die-my-love.md)
- *Feed* (2025), as Lady
- *Human Fiction* (2025), as Narrator (voice)
- *Queen of Bones* (2025), as Agnis
- *A Dios* (2025), as Clare
- *The Dogs* (2025), as Hannah Murphy
- *The Apprentice* (2024), as Tenant Ms. Nathanson — Fi1m 61, [page](https://film.one/film/the-apprentice.md)
- *Drive Back Home* (2024), as Adelaide
- *We Are Zombies* (2024), as Mrs. Neard
- *Of May* (2024), as May
- *Three Pines* (2022), series, as Ruth Zardo
- *Severance* (2022), series, as Rose — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/severance.md)
- *Transplant* (2020), series, as Baba Jody Babich
- *The Hottest August* (2019), as narrator
- *Torching the Dusties* (2019), as Wilma
- *We Are Gold* (2019), Actor
- *Emmy* (2018), Actor
- *Star Trek: Discovery* (2017), series, as Kalzara Bix
- *Cross My Heart* (2017), as La grand-mère
- *Bird* (2017), as Charlotte
- *The Argument (with annotations)* (2017), as Lecturer
- *Fargo* (2014), series, as Mama Munch, Irma — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/fargo-2014.md)
- *Away from Her* (2007), as Phoebe Hart — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/away-from-her.md)
- *The New Worst Witch* (2005), series, as Miss Cackle
- *Coast to Coast* (2004), as Juliette
- *Hollywood North* (2004), as Lindsay Marshall
- *This Is Wonderland* (2004), series, as Ellie Germaine
- *Saint Monica* (2002), as Mary
- *The Five Senses* (1999), as Clare
- *The Worst Witch* (1998), series, as Miss Amelia Cackle
- *Emily of New Moon* (1998), series, as Queen Victoria
- *A Simple Wish* (1997), as Ms. Bramble
- *The Shamrock Conspiracy* (1995), as Mae Dillon
- *When Night Is Falling* (1995), as Tillie
- *Deadly Betrayal: The Bruce Curtis Story* (1992), as Alice Curtis
- *The Marriage Bed* (1986), as Margaret Neilson
- *Terminal Choice* (1985), as Nurse Barton
- *Evergreen* (1985), series, as Mary Malone
- *The Wars* (1983), as Eena
- *By Design* (1982), as Ms. Hirshorn
- *The Land of Nod*, as Marie

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