Clareine Cronin was born and brought up in London,
of Australian and French parents. Throughout her childhood she delighted
in writing and performing plays with her sister, for the amusement (or so
they hoped) of their family.
She
continued to enjoy acting throughout university, and began to take acting
classes at the City Lit while studying law. She then decided to have
a complete career change and train to be a professional actor, at Drama
Studio London, from where she graduated in Autumn 2005.
Since graduating, her work includes appearing in independent films (including Forna, nominated for Best Digital Short, and longlisted for Best British Short at the British Independent Film Awards 2007) and an appearance in the live episode of The Bill. On stage, she has played Panope in a multi-media adaptation of Phaedra, performed at Goldsmiths College. Other roles include playing fictional adulterous Blair Babe Minister, Nicola McDonald, in Hide the Front Page! by Francis Beckett; unhinged abandoned wife, Eva, in Tough Luck by Steve Hubbard, and more recently playing a young mum stuck in a depressing tower block in Paper Thin, by Anna Jordan, all for First Draft Theatre. She also played Susan, a woman who yearns to start a family, in a world where procreation is severely restricted because ageing has been "cured" with the invention of a pill, in The Future, at the Pentameters Theatre.
Clareine greatly enjoys collaborative approaches to new work: as well as being a member of First Draft Theatre (which specialised in producing two short plays every other month, written and rehearsed within the space of a few weeks) she also appeared in a part-devised short film, Are We Being Watched?, playing a young woman frustrated by the confines of her domestic life. This film was produced through the Actors Centre as part of an experimental process of part-writing, part-devising/improvising a script. The writer was Simon Bowen and the director, Ronnie McCann. Most recently, she appeared as Teresa, a hapless would-be contestant on a gameshow in Making It Mean Something, a devised short film written and directed by Rachel Tillotson. She is also a reader for The Liars League, a forum for rehearsed readings of new short stories.
Clareine is an experienced roleplayer (both corporate and medical), a voice artist and is also an occasional freelance script reader for Theatre 503.
Clareine is a member of the Actors Centre, and Equity.