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My Take
Sian Clifford is my favorite kind of actor: the one who makes restraint look explosive. As Claire in Fleabag she did more with a clenched jaw and a haircut crisis than most performers manage with pages of monologue, every suppressed feeling visible at the edges. Then Quiz proved it was no fluke; her Diana Ingram was sympathetic and absurd at once, a genuinely difficult balance. I credit her stage training: theatre actors learn to build a character from the inside, and it shows in how lived-in her people feel. She rarely chases the spotlight, but whenever she appears, the scene quietly reorganizes itself around her. That is real screen power.
Overview
Sian Clifford (born 7 April 1982) is an English actress. She is best known for playing Claire, the older sister of the titular character in the BBC comedy-drama series Fleabag (2016–2019), Martha Crawley in the ITV/Amazon Studios series Vanity Fair (2018), and Diana Ingram in the ITV series Quiz (2020).
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Sian Clifford
- Name (Japanese)
- シアン・クリフォード
- Reading
- しあん・くりふぉーど
- Born
- March 20, 1982 (age 44)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Pisces / Dog
- Origin
- London, Roman Empire
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- actor / film actor / stage actor / television actor / film producer
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Xhttps://x.com/siansuniverse
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sian%20Clifford
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-10
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.