Sharon D. Clarke is an English actress and singer. Best known to television audiences for her role as Lola Griffin in the medical drama Holby City, Clarke has also played lead roles in many West End musicals, and originated the roles of the Killer Queen in We Will Rock You and Oda Mae Brown in Ghost the Musical. Clarke has achieved chart success with the FPI Project's remake of Going Back to My Roots and in Nomad with the singles "(I Wanna Give You) Devotion" and "Just a Groove", the latter of which sold more than two million singles worldwide. In 2017 it was announced that Clarke would be joining the 11th series of Doctor Who.

Filmography

• 2025Havoc — Captain
• 2025National Theatre Live: The Importance of Being Earnest — Lady Bracknell
• 2025Wicked: For Good — Dulcibear (voice)
• 2024Bagman — Barbara
• Ellis — DCI Ellis
• Lost Boys and Fairies — Claire
• Maddie + Triggs — Triggs' Tail (voice)
• Mr Loverman — Carmel Walker
• 2024Wicked — Dulcibear (voice)
• Castlevania: Nocturne — Cécile Fatiman (voice)
• 2023Red, White & Royal Blue — UK Prime Minister
• 2022The Bower
• La Fortuna — Maggie
• 2021Neutrino: Hunting the Ghost Particle — Narrator
• Showtrial — Virginia Hoult
• 2020Rocks — Anita
• 2019Rocketman — AA Counsellor
• 2018Doctor Who: The Woman Who Fell to Earth — Grace O'Brien
• Informer — Rose Asante
• 2018Tau — Queenpin
• Flowers — Dr. Malone
• 2016Shakespeare Lives: The Works — Macbeth
• 2016The Darkest Universe — Megan
• 2015National Theatre Live: Everyman — Kindred (Mother)
• Psychobitches — Nina Simone, Bessie Smith
• Playhouse Presents — Bessie Smith
• Death in Paradise — Zeta Akande
• 2007Sugarhouse — Crystal
• Doctor Who — Grace O'Brien
• The Crust — Grandma Flossie
• New Tricks
• Waking the Dead — Camelia Baptiste
• 2000Secret Society — Typhoon
• 1999Beautiful People — Nurse Tina
• Holby City — Lola Griffin
• Performance — Flora
• Soldier Soldier — Receptionist
• 1988Tumbledown — 1st Night Nurse
• 1986Past Caring — Susie
• The Singing Detective — Night Nurse
• EastEnders — Lizzie Burton
• Ebony McQueen — Ebony McQueen
• The Lenny Henry Birthday Show

Appearances as themselves (5)

• 2022Reopening: The Broadway Revival — Self
• Chatsworth House — Self - Narrator
• Stars in the House — Self
• CBeebies Bedtime Stories — Self
• Ready, Steady, Cook — Self - Guest