Clare Lawrence Moody is an English television and stage actor and producer. She is the daughter of English television director Laurence Moody. She is also credited as Clare Lawrence. She was educated at Lady Eleanor Holles School and trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, all the while acting in TV. She gained a first class degree in English at New Hall, Cambridge, before being cast alongside Joan Plowright and Dorothy Tutin in the film This Could Be the Last Time. She has since appeared in EastEnders, Ultimate Force, The Bill, Bad Girls, Longitude and Harry, She has also recently appeared onstage at the Royal National Theatre as Ruth Fry in Fram by Tony Harrison, in Mine by Polly Teale for Shared Experience,and as Dorothy Markham in "The Girls of Slender Means" by Muriel Spark adapted by Judith Adams.Her radio work includes leads in Let's Murder Vivaldi, 27 Wagons Full of Cotton, Amerika and Ghost in the Mechanic. She and Anna Waterhouse also run the West End theatre production company Out Of The Blue Productions. 

January 1st, 1975 in Ashton-under-Lyne (Age 49)