Claire Skinner is a British stage, film and television actress, best known for her role as the hapless mother Sue Brockman in the BBC sitcom "Outnumbered". Her film work includes the Mike Leigh productions "Life Is Sweet" and "Naked", "Bridget Jones's Diary" and "Sleepy Hollow".

Filmography

• The Lady — June Andrews
• Bookish — Mrs Calthrop
• 2025Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy — Magda
• 2025The Trial — Dione Sinclair
• Coma — Beth
• 2024Outnumbered Christmas Special — Sue Brockman
• 2024The Critic — Mary Brooke
• The Chelsea Detective — Charlotte Twist
• 2021Boxing Day — Auntie Caroline
• Murder, They Hope — Kerry
• Kate & Koji — Amanda
• McDonald & Dodds — Chief Superintendent Mary Ormond
• Ted Lasso — Dr. Rogers
• The Pale Horse — Yvonne Tuckerson
• 2019Isabel — Mary
• Next of Kin — DCI Vivien Barnes
• Vanity Fair — Louise Sedley
• 2017Oxide Ghosts: The Brass Eye Tapes
• 2016Outnumbered - Christmas Special 2016 — Sue Brockman
• Power Monkeys — Sara
• Critical — Mrs. Lorraine Rappaport
• Inside No. 9 — Angela
• Playhouse Presents — Linda
• 2012Shoot Me! — Claire
• 2012The Sick Party — Sue Brockman
• 2011Doctor Who: The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe — Madge Arwell
• 2011Eliminate: Archie Cookson — Camilla
• Silk — Sarah Stephens
• 2011The Broken Santa — Sue Brockman
• Moving On — Mary Ann
• 2009The Robbers — Sue Brockman
• Trinity — Dr. Angela Donne
• Lark Rise to Candleford
• Sense and Sensibility — Fanny Dashwood
• 2007And When Did You Last See Your Father? — Gillian
• Kingdom — Brenda Collins
• Outnumbered — Sue
• 2007The Trial of Tony Blair — Nicky
• 2007You Can Choose Your Friends — Jane Arden
• The Family Man
• 2005Class of '76 — Dr. Kate Tremaine
• Class of '76 — Dr. Kate Tremaine
• 2005The Funny Blokes of British Comedy — Lucinda (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Agatha Christie's Marple — Amy Murgatroyd
• Life Begins — Clare
• 2004Strings — Jhinna
• The Genius of Mozart — Nannerl Mozart
• 2003Eroica — Josephine Deym
• 2003The Booze Cruise — Leonie Sewell
• The Booze Cruise — Leone Sewell
• Trevor's World of Sport — Meryl
• Bedtime — Sarah Newcombe
• 2001Bridget Jones's Diary — Magda
• Murphy's Law — Alice
• Perfect Strangers — Rebecca
• Second Sight — Catherine Tully
• 1999Sleepy Hollow — Beth Killian
• 1999The Escort — Patricia
• 1999You're Dead... — Jo
• A Dance to the Music of Time — Jean
• Brass Eye — Mrs Wastrey, Helly Melvick, Board Member/Martha O'Dennell
• Midsomer Murders — Kitty Oswood
• The Peter Principle — Susan Harvey
• The Wingless Bird — Agnes Conway
• 1995Clockwork Mice — Fairy
• 1995I.D. — Marie
• 1994The Return of the Native — Thomasin
• 1994Two Golden Balls — Linda
• Chef — Lucinda
• 1993Naked — Sandra
• 1991Life Is Sweet — Natalie
• Screen One — Linda
• 1989The Rachel Papers — Gloria
• South of the Border — Laura
• Inspector Morse — Girl Pupil
• Screen Two — Marie
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — Thomasin

Appearances as themselves (1)

• The One Show — Self