Clare Perkins

Clare Perkins is an English actress, born on August 18, 1965. She trained in acting and musical theatre at Rose Bruford College and has worked across stage, screen and radio for more than four decades. Perkins became widely known as Denise Boulter in Family Affairs and Ava Hartman in EastEnders. She starred as activist Myrna Okeke in The Outlaws and appeared in The Wheel of Time, Suspicion, The Crown, Young Wallander and Death in Paradise. Her films include Ken Loach's Ladybird Ladybird, Mike Leigh's Secrets & Lies, Censor, Medusa Deluxe and Bullet Boy, for which she received a Screen Nation Award for Best Actress. Perkins plays Carla McLain, Martha Walker's former partner, in Apple TV's dystopian science-fiction series Silo. Her stage credits include Emilia, Sweat, The Wife of Willesden, Player Kings and Bacchae, with work at the National Theatre, Royal Court, and Shakespeare's Globe.