Claire Cox

Claire Cox is a British actress who trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama, graduating with a degree in acting, and began her career on stage. One of her first jobs cast her as Fredrika Armfeldt in the Stephen Sondheim musical A Little Night Music, at the National Theatre with Judi Dench. She then spent three seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company, playing Portia in Julius Caesar, directed by Edward Hall, a role that earned her an Ian Charleson commendation, and later returned for the company's Spanish Golden Age season. Her other theater work includes A Servant to Two Masters, The Voysey Inheritance and Macbeth at the Globe Theatre. On screen she has appeared in The Leading Man (1996), Shooting Fish (1997) and Luther (2003), and in television series including The Last Salute, Spooks, Wallander, Poirot, Fresh Meat and Jamestown, as well as the BBC soap opera Doctors in 2023.