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name: "Meriel Sheibani-Clare"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/meriel-sheibani-clare"
fi1m_id: "meriel-sheibani-clare"
imdb_id: "nm3801530"
tmdb_id: 4429380
roles: ["Writer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-18T00:06:01.132229+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."
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# Meriel Sheibani-Clare

## Identity

Meriel Sheibani-Clare

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/meriel-sheibani-clare
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** meriel-sheibani-clare
- **IMDb ID:** nm3801530
- **TMDB ID:** 4429380
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3801530/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4429380

Writer.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Also known as:** Meriel Baistow-Clare
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3801530/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4429380

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*The Crown*](https://film.one/tv/the-crown.md) (78)

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## Biography

Meriel Sheibani-Clare is a British television writer, also credited as Meriel Baistow-Clare. She holds a BA in English Literature from Oxford University and an MA in Modern Literature from Queen Mary University of London.

She began her career in script editing on the adaptations *Poirot* (2010) and *Agatha Christie's Marple* (2010). She joined *The Crown* as script editor on its fourth season, later serving as staff writer on the fifth and sixth seasons. She co-wrote the episode 'Ritz' with Peter Morgan for the sixth season, which received a 2024 Emmy nomination for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series and a Humanitas Prize nomination.

Her other credits include work in the writers' rooms for *Everything Now* (second season) and *Little Disasters*. She is writing an episode of the upcoming Netflix limited series *The Boys from Brazil* (2026) with Peter Morgan. She has also written the libretto for the opera *Tell Me the Truth About Love*.

*Sources: deadline.com, independenttalent.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Crown* (2016), Fi1m 78, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-crown.md)

## Complete filmography (1)

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

- *The Crown* (2016), series, Writer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-crown.md)

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