Biography
Clare Higgins is an English actress. She was born Clare Frances Elizabeth Higgins on 10 November 1955 in Bradford, Yorkshire, and trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
She is a three-time winner of the Olivier Award for Best Actress, for Sweet Bird of Youth (1995), Vincent in Brixton (2003) and Hecuba (2005). She made her Broadway debut in Vincent in Brixton and received a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Play.
Higgins is known to film audiences for her role as Julia Cotton in Hellraiser (1987) and its sequel Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988). Her other screen credits include The Golden Compass (2007), Downton Abbey (2010), Ready Player One (2018) and the television series Doctor Who and The Sandman.
