Clare Cathcart
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Clare Cathcart | |
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| Born | 2 October 1965 Bellanaleck, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, UK |
| Died | 4 September 2014 (aged 48) Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Known for | Mrs Torpy |
Clare Cathcart (2 October 1965 – 4 September 2014) was a Northern Irish actress on stage and in film, radio, and television.
Cathcart was born in Bellanaleck, County Fermanagh, the daughter of Arthur Cathcart and Doreen Cathcart. Her parents owned a restaurant. She attended Enniskillen College, and trained for an acting career at Royal Holloway.[1]
Career
She was known for her appearances in Coronation Street, New Tricks and Call the Midwife, in which she played Mrs Torpy.[2] Cathcart also appeared in the TV programmes Lost Belongings,[3] Holby City, Goodnight Sweetheart, Come Fly with Me, Doctors,[4] The Bill, Casualty, Safe and Sound,[5] and Searching.[6][7] "I was cast for my cleavage for the first three years of my career," she told a newspaper in 1995.[6]
Cathcart's film appearances include Hotel Splendide, Up on the Roof[8] and in 1999 Maeve Murphy's Salvage.[9][10] She worked on some radio dramas, including Nun Climbs Tree in 1994, and The Law of Diminishing Returns in 2003.[11][12]
On stage, Cathcart appeared in The Duchess of Malfi in Manchester in 1989,[13] as a "luscious Beatrice" in The Venetian Twins at Oxford in 1993,[14] in Brian Friel's Aristocrats in 2000,[15] in Gary Mitchell's Loyal Women in 2003,[16] and in The Comedy of Errors at the National Theatre, directed by Dominic Cooke.[17] Her last appearance onstage was in Kathy Burke's production of Mary J O'Malley's Once a Catholic at the Tricycle Theatre, London in 2013.[18]