“This is about shifting habits and attitudes and asking people to take responsibility for what is in their coffee cup. The bottom line is that if farmers don?t get a fair price for their coffee they will starve.”
Hometown:
Edinburgh, Scotland
Vices:
Determined, chatty, generous, hyperactive, and grumpy.
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Hobbies:
enjoys clubbing, tarot cards, palm reading, playing poker and dancing.
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Chicks She's Worked With
Sue Devaney, Sue Perkins, Melanie Sykes, Carol McGiffin, Lorraine Kelly, Coleen Nolan, Lynda Bellingham, Denise Welch, Andrea McLean, Kaye Adams, Lisa Faulkner, Angela Griffin, Louise Delamere, Ulrika Jonsson, Zora Suleman, Donna Air, Amita Dhiri, Kim Vithana, Pooky Quesnel, Sally-Rogers, Lisa Maxwell
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Claire Goose (born 10 February 1975) is a British actress. She was educated at Wisbech Grammar School. She is best known for her role as nurse Tina Seabrook in the BBC television drama Casualty and later as DS Mel Silver in Waking the Dead.
Claire was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and lived there till she was 2 and a half, in a little village called Clarewood. She grew up in Norfolk. Her parents are mother Joy and father David, who is a GP in King's Lynn, and has also looked after the Royals. Claire also has an elder sister, Caroline, a nursery nurse and an elder brother, Duncan, who works in marketing.
She is a graduate of the Italia Conti Academy stage school. Early theatre roles included Addicted to Love, and Hitting Home with Colin Tarrant at the Man in the Moon Theatre, written by James Woolf and directed by Dave Gillies. She has an older brother called Duncan, who is an entrepreneur who started up the "one water" company where all the profits go to the roundabout playpumps in Africa.
She had previous jobs including a silver service waitress, a story telling racoon in a theme park, admin work for the NSPCC and has also done modelling.[citation needed] Claire enjoys clubbing, tarot cards, palm reading and playing poker, she has also been dancing since the age of three. Before her big break in Casualty, she nearly got the role of Tiffany in EastEnders, but was beaten by Martine McCutcheon, and she was also down to the last two for a part in Soldier Soldier and on the shortlist of fifty of the part of Dev's new girlfriend in Coronation Street
She is currently playing recently promoted Inspector Rachel Weston in ITV's The Bill, following Gillian Taylforth's departure from the programme in August 2008. Claire's debut on the show was on 6 August. She will take extended leave in late Summer/early Autumn from the show when she goes onto maternity leave
She has received the attention of those who vote in the FHM magazine poll of the "100 Sexiest Women in the World" on numerous occasions, with improved placings over time:
1998 Poll No. 94
1999 Poll No. 38
2000 Poll No. 29
Claire married producer Craig Woodrow in December 2007. The two met three years previously on a blind date, and are expecting their first child in September 2009.
Film, TV and radio appearances
Loved Up in Men (1995)
Casualty (nurse Tina Seabrook) for BBC Television (1997 - 2000)
Alone (2001)
Slap Bang (2001)
Gifted (2003
Waking the Dead (DS Mel Silver) for BBC Television (2000 - 2004)
L'Assommoir (Gervaise) for BBC Radio 4 (2004)
Secret Smile (2005)
Perfect Day (2005)
Bad Day (2007)
About a Dog (Sarah) for BBC Radio 4 (2007)
The Bill (Inspector Rachel Weston) (TV series) (From August 2008)
Stuff she’s done, ie: movies, tv, albums:
The Bill, Casualty, Loved Up in Men, Alone, Gifted, Waking the Dead, Secret Smile, Perfect Day, Bad Day, Holby City, Loose Women, GMTV, Light Lunch, Richard & Judy, Shooting Stars, SE, Saturday Kitchen, The Millennium, Love Lies Bleeding, The Afternoon Play, Kelly, Today with Des and Mel, Big Brother's Little Brother, Ruth Rendell Mysteries
Dudes she has worked with:
James Martin, Michael French, George Baker, Christopher Ravenscroft, Simon Shepherd, Derek Thompson, Ian Kelsey, Ian Bleasdale, Vic Reeves, Bob Mortimer, Matt Lucas, Wil Johnson, Trevor Eve, Chris Bisson
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