Clare Corbett

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Clare Corbett
NationalityBritish
OccupationActress

Clare Corbett is a British actress and a winner (2000) of a Carleton Hobbs Radio Award. [1] She studied at the Welsh College of Music and Drama [2] and has appeared in television programmes such as Casualty , Eastenders and Doctors , [3] as well as a number of radio plays (including Absolute Power, Venus and Adonis and Dr. Zhivago), [4] and video games, including the Dark Souls series.

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She has narrated numerous audiobooks including Vanessa and Her Sister, Shopaholic to the Stars, [4] and The Girl on the Train, [5] which won the 2016 Audie Award for Audiobook of the Year. [6]

In 2017, Corbett was nominated for "Best Supporting Actor/Actress" in the BBC Audio Drama Awards [7] for her role as Franciska Lazar in the drama serial Keeping the Wolf Out.

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
2001RawLorna
2006Journeys Close to HomeGirlVoice, short film
2010Sookie & Finn: Our DayFinn, LukeShort film
2016Wrong Way ForwardMyraShort film

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
200340Nurse1 episode
Final DemandSelenaTelevision film
Sucked UpNarratorTV short
2003-2007 Casualty Midwife, Janie Jones2 episodes
2004 Spooks Teacher1 episode
2005 The Bill Hailey BrownEpisode: "Won't Take it Lying Down"
2005-07 Planet Sketch Various39 Episodes
2007 Doctors Penny EdererEpisode: "Broken"
2010-2011 Chuggington ChugNavVoice role. 2 episodes
2011 EastEnders Paramedic 11 episode
2013 Holby City Naomi CourtEpisode: "If I Needed Someone"
2020 Spitting Image Prince George, Princess Charlotte, Anneliese Dodds 3 episodes
2021 Emmerdale Fire Investigator2 episodes
2023The Hunt for Raoul MoatKath Rathband2 episodes

Video games

YearTitleRoleNotes
2004 World of Warcraft
2006 Rule of Rose Amanda [8]
2009 Demon's Souls Saint Astraea [8]
2011 Dark Souls Itinerant Merchant Woman, Gwynevere, Priscillia [8]
2014 Dark Souls II AlsannaScholar of the First Sin DLC
Lego the Hobbit: The Video Game Additional Voices
LittleBigPlanet 3 Hildur [8]
2016 Dark Souls III Nestling, Evangelist [8]
2017 The Surge
Total War: Warhammer II
Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Floren, Electra [8]
2018 Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom
League of Angels III
World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth
Battlefield V
2019 GreedFall Minor characters
Another Eden Melina [8]
2020 Demon's Souls Maiden Astraea, Hawk Girl, Disciple [8]
2021 It Takes Two Rose [8]
My Friend Peppa PigDanny Dog, George Pig, Molly Mole, Rebecca Rabbit [8]
2022 Elden Ring Tarnished (Female), Irina, Hyetta, Aureliette [8]
Warhammer 40,000: Darktide The Agitator
2023 Arknights Estelle
Baldur's Gate 3 Kagha [8]

Audiobooks (partial list)

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References

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