Clara Salaman
Clara Rachel Salaman (born 19 May 1967) is an English actress and authoress.
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She is known for playing the role of DS Claire Stanton in the long running ITV drama The Bill from 1999 to 2001. She first appeared on The Bill as a victim, Penny Thompson, on episode 6 of series 11 in 1995.
She has also appeared in several other television programmes, including A Touch of Frost and Kingdom.
She has written a play for the National Theatre and a screenplay for Granada Television. She has also written her first novel, Shame on You,[1] and in a related piece recalled her own family upbringing as part of an unnamed religious cult in The Guardian in July 2009.[2] Her second novel, The Boat, appeared in 2014, based on her real experience aged 18 when Salaman and her fiancé hitched a ride on a yacht with couple who claimed to sexually abuse their young daughter.[3] While criticisms were made of Salaman's failure to report the suspected abuse, Salaman provided her reasoning to The Guardian.[4]
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References
- Clara Salaman, Shame on You, Penguin Books, 2009, ISBN 0-14-104126-9
- Salaman, Clara (25 July 2009). "'They stole my parents'". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
- Salaman, Clara (1 February 2014). "From dream trip to nightmare at sea". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
- Elliott, Chris (9 February 2014). "The readers' editor on… protecting the victims when writing about sexual abuse | Chris Elliott". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 18 February 2019.