Claire Sweeney

The Olivier Award winning play Educating Rita, starring Matthew Kelly and Claire Sweeney, will be making its only Yorkshire appearance at Bradford’s Alhambra Theatre ... Blonde and Andrew Lloyd Webber and Don Black’s one-woman show Tell Me On A ...  

MATTHEW Kelly and Claire Sweeney star in this gem of British theatre, as the Olivier Award-winning play Educating Rita comes to Guildford’s Yvonne Arnaud Theatre from Monday to Saturday, May 21 to 26. A modern classic, follow the unforgettable story of ...  

My memories of that age are a bit hazy, but it was the year I went to the local Catholic school where I lived in Liverpool. The first time my heart was broken ... When our family dog Prince, who we'd had for years, died. I was in my teens and we didn't get ...  

Whether on stage or screen, few can forget Willy Russell’s young, earnest heroine, in Educating Rita, a working class girl hungry for education who finds herself under the tutelage of a lost, boozed up lecturer, searching for life beyond academia.  

I got into showbusiness really early, when I was about 14, so I didn't do too many jobs before that. Entertainment is hard work and I was grafting away at it from when I was a little girl, but I did have a Saturday job at my father's butcher's ...  

Claire Sweeney and her husband Glenn, from Gomshall, are facing a six-mile journey to take their son to school in Effingham after missing out on popular Chilworth school, Tillingbourne. “It’s a horrible feeling,” said Mrs Sweeney. “We’re all so ...  

Actress Claire Sweeney has collaborated with 'size and fit' specialist e-tailer Fashion World (www.fashionworld.co.uk) to create her first fashion collection for Spring Summer 2012 following an initial season as a Brand Ambassador. She has been very ...  

The owner of a dangerous dog which attacked three other dogs has been ordered to keep her pet muzzled in public. Claire Sweeney (42) pleaded guilty at Leicester Magistrates' Court to being the owner of a dog which was dangerous and not kept under proper ...  

X' Some regular panel members interviewing Peter Andre last week, from left, Carol Vorderman, Lisa Maxwell, Claire Sweeney and Jenny Eclair Some regular panel members interviewing Peter Andre last week, from left, Carol Vorderman, Lisa Maxwell, Claire ...  

l Willy Russell fans are in for a treat, as his two-hander Educating Rita is also coming to Bradford. Starring Matthew Kelly and Claire Sweeney, the play, about a Liverpool hairdresser who embarks on a university course, is on at the Alhambra this in June.  

www.coalition-play.co.uk. By Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky. Matthew Kelly and Claire Sweeney star in Willy Russell’s classic comedy. Rita, a brash, unschooled hairdresser, enrols with the Open University, where her ideas challenge the established views of ...  

so who better to play a feisty scouser intent on improving her lot than Lindsay Corkhill herself, the marvellous, magnificent Claire Sweeney. The touring production, currently showing at Malvern Theatres, is a two-hander featuring Matthew Kelly as Frank ...  

Actress Claire Sweeney, who is soon to star in the West End musical Chicago, recently described herself as 'an average size 12 and pear-shaped'. It was a surprising admission from a woman who'd just been photographed looking seductive in a corset.  

Each week Betty, the Sun’s Mistress Of Modern Manners, asks a few awkward questions. Here, CLAIRE SWEENEY admits to annoying Richard Gere, her sausage-stuffing prowess and throwing up in a hat. I don’t think so... I don’t like too much drama.