Background
Born in Edinburgh, Goose was raised in Dersingham, England, where her father worked as a General practitioner.
Born in Edinburgh, Goose was raised in Dersingham, England, where her father worked as a General practitioner.
She played nurse Tina Seabrook in the British Broadcasting Corporation television drama Casualty and Doctor of Science Mel Silver in Waking the Dead. She also commentates on the television show Road Wars. She has an elder sister, Caroline, a nursery nurse, and an elder brother, Duncan, an entrepreneur who started up the "one water" company where all the profits go to the roundabout playpumps in Africa.
Claire Goose is a graduate of the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts.
Early theatre roles included Addicted to Love, and Hitting Home with Colin Tarrant at the Manitoba in the Moon Theatre, written by James Woolf and directed by Dave Gillies. She also appeared in early adverts for Impulse women"s body spray.
She became well known in the United Kingdom in the late 1990s for her role as nurse Tina Seabrook in Casualty. She later replaced Gillian Taylforth from August 2008, playing Inspector Rachel Weston in Independent Television"s The Bill.
In 2011 she appeared in BBC1 drama Exile with John Simm, and in 2015 appeared in the fourth series of Death in Paradise.
In 2015 she appears as the title character in the British Broadcasting Corporation Birmingham daytime drama The Coroner.