Claire Cathcart

Clare Cathcart (2 October 1965 – 4 September 2014) was a Northern Irish actress.

She was known for her appearances in Coronation Street, New Tricks and Call the Midwife in which she played Mrs Torpy. Cathcart also appeared in the TV programmes Holby City, Goodnight Sweetheart, Come Fly with Me, Doctors, The Bill, and Casualty. Onstage, she appeared in The Comedy of Errors at the National Theatre, directed by Dominic Cooke.

Her film appearances include Hotel Splendide, Up on the Roof and in 1999 Maeve Murphy's Salvage. Her last appearance onstage was in Kathy Burke's production of Mary J O'Malley's Once a Catholic at the Tricycle Theatre, London in 2013.