Claire Berlein

(19*-) Actress in film, radio and television and on stage. Born in **. Studied at the University of Cape Town Drama Department, won Fleur du Cap for Most Promising Student in 1985. Besides acting, she has worked as Head of the UCT Wardrobe, lectured on stage make-up, and directed and designed for theatre and worked as an accent and performance coach for film. Highlights of her theatre acting career include Helena in A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur 1990, Titus Andronicus, Wit, Women Beware Women and The Yellow Wallpaper, one of three one-woman shows she toured with in Canada under the directorship of Geoffrey Hyland, The Beauty Queen of Leenane directed by Janice Honeyman (Fleur du Cap Theatre Award, Best Actress, 2001),Broken Glass (2011). She is also a painter, and she has exhibited and sold her paintings internationally.