text: Claire Keelan (born 8 May 1975) is an English actress, mostly in comedy. Her credits include A Cock and Bull Story (2005), Nathan Barley (2005), Perfect Day (2005), Survivors (2008), No Heroics (2009), Hush (2009), The Trip (2010), Mister John (2013), Agatha Christie's Poirot (2013), Black Mirror (2013), Carnage (2017), and Cold Feet (2020).
  Background
  Keelan is a former member of the Royal Court Young People's Theatre, and trained at Westminster College between 1998 and 1999.
  Career
  Keelan has appeared in the films A Cock and Bull Story (2005), Pierrepoint (2005) and Hush (2009). Her television credits include Perfect Day, Survivors, Sorted, Moving On, The Trip,  and the pilot episode of How Not to Live Your Life.  She played the lead roles of Claire Ashcroft in Nathan Barley,  and Electroclash in No Heroics.  In 2013 she appeared in an episode of Channel 4's Black Mirror written by Charlie Brooker.
  Keelan's theatre work includes Top Girls, Ultra Violet, Les liaisons dangereuses, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Rise and Shine, and The Electric Hills.
  Personal life
  Keelan is married to actor Simon Farnaby, and they have a daughter, Eve (born c.2014).
  Filmography
  Film