Clare Dunne graduated from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and was immediately cast in a lead role in the Druid Theatre Company’s acclaimed production of Playboy of the Western World directed by Garry Hynes. She’s since appeared in numerous theatre productions across Ireland and the UK, notably in the Donmar Warehouse as Portia in Julius Caesar directed by Phyllida Lloyd which transferred to St Ann’s Warehouse, Brooklyn. She went on to appear as Prince Hal in Phyllida Lloyd’s acclaimed production of Henry IV which also transferred to the new St Ann’s Warehouse to huge critical acclaim. Dunne has also had a heady past two years on the big and small screen. She starred as Amanda, the female lead in the first season of the acclaimed BRON/AMC+ and RTE series, Kin. She wrote and starred in Herself [+see also:
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Now selected for EFP's 2022 Shooting Stars, she talks to us.