Clare Margaret Holman is an English actress. She portrayed forensic pathologist Laura Hobson in the crime drama series Inspector Morse and its spin-off Lewis from 1995 to 2015.
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Early life and education
Clare Margaret Holman was born in London, England.
Career
Holman started her acting career in the 1988 television film The Rainbow based on the novel by D.H. Lawrence, directed by Stuart Burge.
In 1989 she played the part of the school teacher Mary Llewellyn in an adaptation of The Fifteen Streets by Catherine Cookson.
In 1991, she played Iris Bentley, sister to Derek Bentley, played by Christopher Eccleston, in the film Let Him Have It, and in 1992, she voiced Juliet in the Shakespeare: The Animated Tales adaptation of Romeo and Juliet.
She played Harper in the Royal National Theatre's production of Tony Kushner's Angels in America in November 1993. In 1995, Holman was cast as Laura Hobson in the crime drama series Inspector Morse, where she continued to play that part until 2000 when the series ended.
