Clare Grogan (born 17 March 1962, in Glasgow) is a Scottish actress and singer.
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Contents
- 1 Biography
- 1.1 Singing
- 1.2 Acting
- 1.3 Radio
- 2 Personal
life
- 3 External
links
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Biography
Born Claire Patricia Grogan, she was
discovered by film director Bill
Forsyth when she was waitressing in a Glasgow
restaurant. She shot to fame at 19 as Susan, the girl who finally got
her man in the 1981
film, Gregory's
Girl.
Singing
Her first love was singing, and Grogan decided to develop her
career in that direction as the lead singer of band Altered
Images, a five piece including Johnny
McElhone (later of Texas), and later a
four-piece after two members left, with the addition of Stephen Lironi
who played both guitar
and drums.
The band had a string of hits in the 1980s including
"Happy Birthday", "Don't Talk To Me About Love", "I Could Be Happy" and
"Bring Me Closer". The group split up after the mixed reception of
their third album,
Bite.
Grogan did attempt a solo career, but after her single
"Love Bomb" flopped in 1987,
her album, Trash Mad was never released. In 2000 she contributed vocals
to the song
"Night Falls Like A Grand Piano" on the Magnetic
Fields side
project the
6ths album, Hyacinths and Thistles. She recorded a
version of "Angels With Dirty Faces" for the Frankie
Miller Tribute album. The track "Her Hooped Dream" appears on
The Ultimate Celtic Album.
Altered Images reunited in name only, as just Grogan
performed, in a Here and Now tour in 2005.
Acting
Grogan as Ros in BBC's EastEnders (1998).
Obliged to appear as C.P. Grogan because
there was already a Clare Grogan (who is
now a portrait photographer) in British actors union Equity. Her
breakthrough role was in Gregory's Girl, in 1981. In 1984 she played
Charlotte in the film,
Comfort and Joy.
In 1985 she
was the receptionist in the BBC Television version of Blott on the Landscape.
She had a recurring role playing Dave Lister's would-be love-interest,
Kristine Kochanski, in series 1,
2 and 6 of the TV show Red Dwarf, (when
the character became a permanent role in later series of the show it
was taken up by Chloë Annett). She has also appeared in
Father
Ted (episode "Rock-a-Hula
Ted", and in EastEnders as Ian Beale's
love interest, Ros Thorne (1997-1998).
In recent years, she has been a talk
show host in the UK. She played control-freak office
manager, Sandra Reeves, in the 2006 film, The Penalty King. She
appears in the video for Peter Kay and Matt Lucas's charity single I'm
Gonna Be (500 Miles) for Comic Relief's Red Nose Day 2007.
Radio
From 26 February to 2 March 2007, Clare Grogan sat
in for DJ Nemone
and on 28
July 2007
she sat in for Liz Kershaw on the British
digital radio station 6 Music.
Personal life
An ex-girlfriend of Volaro founder David Blackwood, she
married fellow band member Stephen Lironi in Glasgow in 1994.
The couple live in the London Borough of
Haringey, and in 2005 the couple adopted daughter Lucia.
External links
