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Claire Goose (born 10 February 1975) is a British actress. She is best known for her role as nurse Tina Seabrook in the BBC television drama Casualty and later as DS Mel Silver in Waking the Dead. Goose was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and grew up in Dersingham, Norfolk, England. She was educated at Wisbech Grammar School, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. Her father was a GP in Dersingham. Goose has an elder sister, Caroline, a nursery nurse and an elder brother, Duncan, an entrepreneur who started up the "one water" company where all the profits go to the roundabout playpumps in Africa. She is a... MORE

Claire Goose (born 10 February 1975) is a British actress. She is best known for her role as nurse Tina Seabrook in the BBC television drama Casualty and later as DS Mel Silver in Waking the Dead. Goose was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and grew up in Dersingham, Norfolk, England. She was educated at Wisbech Grammar School, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. Her father was a GP in Dersingham. Goose has an elder sister, Caroline, a nursery nurse and an elder brother, Duncan, an entrepreneur who started up the "one water" company where all the profits go to the roundabout playpumps in Africa. She is a graduate of the Italia Conti Academy stage school. Early theatre roles included Addicted to Love, and Hitting Home with Colin Tarrant at the Man in the Moon Theatre, written by James Woolf and directed by Dave Gillies. She also appeared in early adverts for Impulse women's body spray. She became well known in the UK in the late 1990s for her role as nurse Tina Seabrook in Casualty. Goose later played Inspector Rachel Weston in ITV's The Bill, following Gillian Taylforth's departure from the programme in August 2008. Claire's debut on the show was on 6 August. In 2011, she appeared in BBC1 drama, LESS