Claire Sweeney Biography
Claire Sweeney is an English actress, singer, and television personality best known for her performances in Brookside, Chicago, and touring shows. She was a panelist on ITV’s Loose Women and hosted 60 Minute Makeover.
How old is Claire Sweeney? – Age
She is 52 years old as of 17 April 2023. She was born in 1971 in Walton, Liverpool, United Kingdom. Her real name is Claire Jane Sweeney.
Has Claire Sweeney got a sister? – Family – Education
Sweeney was born in Walton, Liverpool, the daughter of a butcher who operated a store in Toxteth. She attended the Elliott-Clarke Theatre School in Liverpool and worked on weekends in her father’s shop.
Her first singing gig was at the age of 14 in Liverpool’s Montrose Club, where she was paid £25. She went on to study full-time at London’s Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts.
Claire Sweeney Husband
Sweeney had a six-year relationship with businessman Tony Hibbard, which ended in 2007. She has a kid named Jaxon with her ex-partner Daniel Reilly.
Claire Sweeney Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $1.5 million.
Claire Sweeney Career
Sweeney’s most memorable significant job was as Lindsey Corkhill in the drama Brookside, at first as a repetitive person from 1991 and afterward as a main person from 1995 until the program finished in 2003.
In 2001 Sweeney showed up in the principal series of VIP Older sibling and Lily Savage’s Blankety Clear, and introduced ITV’s Test That could only be described as epic. She was additionally given a role as Roxie Hart in the London restoration of the melodic Chicago. Around the same time she turned into a brand advertiser for Imprints and Spencer, and a brand diplomat for Design World and SlimFast.
In 2002 Sweeney turned into a powers darling and engaged English Armed force troops serving in Afghanistan. Around the same time she delivered the collection Claire, highlighting a blend of unique material and cover renditions: it crested at number 15 in the UK Collections Graph in July 2002. She likewise co-gave BBC One’s A Tune for Europe Christopher Cost.
In 2003, Sweeney featured on the planet visit through the melodic revue Fosse, and highlighted on the collection Give Me a Grin via Carl Davis and the BBC Show Symphony. She was a customary specialist on the ITV’s Hussies from 2003 to 2005, and has showed up as a visitor specialist a few times from that point forward.
In 2004, Sweeney showed up as a contender on series one of Rigorously Come Moving, being wiped out in week five. From 2004 to 2006 Sweeney introduced the ITV daytime show hour long Makeover.
In 2005 Sweeney introduced series four of the Living Program I’m Popular and Terrified!. She likewise facilitated BBC One’s Here Comes the Sun In May 2005 she was among the entertainers who participated in A memorable Party occasion recognizing the 60th commemoration of VE Day.
In 2005 and 2006, Sweeney showed up in emulate creations of Snow White and Aladdin at the Theater Regal, Nottingham. In July 2006, She assumed the job of Miss Adelaide in the English creation of Folks and Dolls at the Piccadilly Theater in London’s West End for an eight-week run, prior to visiting the UK close by Patrick Swayze in a similar creation.
In 2008 she showed up in the ITV narrative Claire Sweeney’s Huge Eating regimen, where she acquired 2 stone (13 kg) in about a month and a half as a feature of a clinical trial. In December 2008 she featured in the emulate Snow White at the Official Theater, Stir up on-Trent. In December 2009 she played Carcass the Fiendish Pixie in Dozing Magnificence at the Churchill Theater, Bromley.
In 2010 she sang with Carl Davis and the Liverpool Philharmonic Symphony in the Skirmish of England 70th Commemoration show. In 2011 Sweeney played both “The Young lady” in a public visit through Andrew Lloyd Webber’s melodic Let me know on a Sunday and Paulette in the main UK visit through Lawfully Blonde: The Melodic. She likewise featured as Amanda in the BBC sitcom Candy Taxis.
In 2012, Sweeney showed up in the UK visit through Teaching Rita. From November 2012 to January 2013 she featured in the White Christmas melodic at the Lowry in Salford Quays. In 2013 Sweeney showed up in We should Move for Lighthearted element close by Natalie Cassidy, Dignitary Gaffney and Ricky Forests, performing to “You Can’t Stop the Thump” from Hairspray. They came next to Antony Cotton.
In May and June 2014 she showed up in the parody melodic Sex and Suburbia, co-composed by Sweeney and Mandy Muden, at the Imperial Court Theater, Liverpool.
Starting around 2015 Sweeney has introduced her own series, Wizardry of the Musicals on Sorcery Radio. In 2015 and 2016 Sweeney played Velma Von-Tussle in the UK visit through Hairspray. In 2019 Sweeney partook in an extraordinary episode of Radio 2’s Friday Night Is Music Night to observe Tony Portal’s 80th birthday celebration. She featured as Hayley in the BBC sitcom Scarborough, close by Jason Manford, Stephanie Cole, and Catherine Tyldesley. On Christmas Day 2019 she introduced a memoir of Cilla Dark on Radio 2.
In July 2021, Sweeney performed at G-A-Y close by cross dresser Veronica Green as a feature of the ordinary supper club night “Challenging Musicals”. Sweeney gave ‘elective Scouse discourse’ to the Eurovision Tune Challenge 2023 last in Liverpool, close by an individual from the public picked through BBC Radio Merseyside’s “Voice of Eurovision” ability search crusade, who was uncovered on 1 May 2023 to be Paul Quinn.
In April 2023, it was reported that Sweeney would join the cast of Crowning ritual Road as Cassandra Plummer, the girl of Evelyn Plummer and the natural mother of Tyrone Dobbs.
In 2024, Sweeney showed up as a contender on the sixteenth series of Moving on Ice. She was matched with Colin Grafton and was third to be disposed of.
Claire Sweeney TV Shows
♦ 2024 – Dancing on Ice
♦ 2023–present – Coronation Street
♦ 2023 – The Good Ship Murder
♦ 2019 – Doctors
♦ 2019 – Scarborough
♦ 2018 – Benidorm
♦ 2014 – Holby City
♦ 2012 – Lemon La Vida Loca
♦ 2011 – Candy Cabs
♦ 2005 – I’m Famous and Frightened!
♦ 2004 – 60 Minute Makeover
♦ 2004 – Strictly Come Dancing
♦ 2004 – Merseybeat
♦ 2003 – Clocking Off
♦ 2001 – Celebrity Big Brother