Claire Cartwright

Claire Cartwright was brought up between North Yorkshire and Uganda. She performed with Youth Theatre Company, Livewire before studying English Literature at Edinburgh University and then heading to London to train at The Academy of Live and Recorded Arts. Graduating in 2010 Claire went on to join the National tour and West End production of Lee Hall's The Pitmen Painters. Subsequently she has worked on a huge range of stage and screen productions including playing the lead role in the West End production of Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap and as the feisty female juvenile lead in Thark at the Park Theatre, directed by Eleanor Rhode and starring Clive Francis. Recent film work includes playing Mum opposite Benedict Cumberbatch in Dylan Southern's The Thing With Feathers, premiering at Sundance Film Festival.