Claire Goose is a British actress. She played Tina Seabrook, a nurse in BBC One's Casualty, DS Mel Silver in Waking the Dead, and Sergeant (later Inspector) Rachel Weston in ITV's The Bill. She played a leading role as undercover cop Rebecca Ryan/Margaret in the British gangster film Bad Day (2008), she also narrated two series of Road Wars (2009 and 2010).
In 2015 she took the part of the leading character in BBC Birmingham's series The Coroner, winning Best acting performance at the 2016 Royal Television Society (Midlands awards).
Early life
Born in Edinburgh, Goose was raised in Dersingham, England, where her father worked as a general practitioner. She has an elder sister, Caroline, a nursery nurse, and an elder brother, Duncan, who started the One Drinks company. Goose is a former pupil of Wisbech Grammar School, and a graduate of the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts.
Career
Early theatre roles included Addicted to Love, and Hitting Home at the Man in the Moon Theatre. She also appeared in early adverts for Impulse women's body spray. Goose played a main role as nurse Tina Seabrook in Casualty, for no less than 80 episodes between 1997 and 2000. In 1998, she was nominated Most Popular Newcomer at the 4th National Television Awards, for her character in the series.
From 2000 to 2004 she played the role of DC/DS Amelia 'Mel' Silver for 4 series of Waking the Dead.
From August 2008, she played Sergeant, later Inspector Rachel Weston in ITV's The Bill. The same year she played a leading role as undercover cop Rebecca Ryan/Margaret in the British gangster film Bad Day.
In 2011 she appeared in BBC1 drama Exile with John Simm, and in 2015 appeared in the fourth series of Death in Paradise.
From 2015 she starred as the titular character Jane Kennedy, in the BBC Birmingham daytime drama The Coroner, set in the fictional coastal town of Lighthaven in South Devon. The series ran to 20 episodes. She won Best acting performance at the 2016 Royal Television Society (Midlands awards).
In 2019, she played the lead role of Thea in "The Girl Who Fell" by Sarah Rutherford at Trafalgar Studios. From 2022, she has starred as Steph in two series of the CBBC teen science-fiction series Silverpoint.
Personal life
In the 1990s Goose dated her Casualty co-star Jonathan Kerrigan. In 2007 she married TV producer Craig Woodrow. Together they have two daughters, Amelia and Eveline.