Clare’s creepy role sees her tipped for movie stardom
The festival is young but is already one of the most important and influential horror film festivals in Britain and has a rapidly growing reputation.
Clare, 28, from Caherdavin, Co Limerick, but now living in London, scooped her award for her major role in Mark Duffield’s film, Demon.
She played Amy Harper, a nurse in a 19th century London hospital, who becomes fascinated by a patient — a young handsome man cursed by love that transforms him into a bloodthirsty demon.
Along with the best actress accolade, Demon won the award for best cinematography at the London event.
It has already scooped the Best Horror Feature award in the Los Angeles Tabloid Witch Awards with Andrew Mullan taking the Best Actor award for his role as Lorcan, the man struggling with the demonic curse.
The film is now set to be screened at Loscon, the Los Angeles film festival, next month and has also been selected for screening in New York.
“I was really surprised and chuffed to win an award and am hoping that it will help me along the next step of my career,” Clare said yesterday.
“I would love to work in Ireland but as the film is going to America I am going to travel there to see what the opportunities are.”
Clare, who has sometimes been mistaken for the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, said she more or less fell into acting when she was very young.
She was a member of Limerick Youth Theatre and later, while an arts student at University College Limerick, became one of the university’s drama society’s most successful presidents — writing, producing, directing and acting in many of its productions.
After graduating from UL with first-class honours in French, Spanish and Japanese, Clare decided to pursue her love of acting and went to train at the Drama Centre in London where fellow Irish actors Michael Fassbender and Pierce Brosnan also trained.
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