Claudia Coulter

Claudia Coulter, born in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, is an actress and voice-over artist who grew up in England and trained at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts, graduating in 1999. Her first role came in Kenneth Branagh's Shackleton, as an Italian maid, and she later had the lead in The Witches Hammer (2006), a cult British action horror film that also featured Stephanie Beacham. She has also worked widely in British drama, playing Bertha Rochester for the BBC in Jane Eyre, opposite Ruth Wilson and Toby Stephens. In Laura Plancarte's Tierra Caliente, the true story of a family in Guerrero, Mexico caught between drug cartels and the military, she was nominated for best female lead by the Sydney Indie Film Festival, and the film was nominated for Best Mexican Film of the Year at the Guadalajara Film Festival in 2015.