Claire Schuyffel

Claire is a Dutch and English native speaking actress, presenter and voice over. Born (1983) and raised in England, her parents both Dutch, she grew up bilingual and frequently uses this trait in her profession. She started acting at a young age, landing her first professional role in the Dutch national production of the musical Annie in 1995. Claire trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art LAMDA and also studied at the Chubbuck Studio in Los Angeles, after which she frequently practiced the Chubbuck Technique in workshops and masterclasses in the Netherlands. Claire has been working as professional actress on stage since finishing drama school in 2009, creating her own work like the dramatic English play The Upper Crust, which was also filmed. She has performed at many theatre festivals like De Parade and Fringe Festival. In 2014-2015, Claire played the part of young Emilie in the Dutch national production of one of the world's most famous and successful theatre shows, War Horse. Other theatre credits include improv comedy group The Cyclepaths, children's theatre shows De Kleine Prins by Theater van Santen and many plays with theatre group Zwerm, among others. Claire now mostly works in front of the camera. Recently, Claire had one of the leads in the 4th season of international children's tv-series Mia and Me, 26 episodes to be seen on Nickelodeon and Netflix end 2021. She also played in Dutch tv-series H3L, 16 episodes, which was nominated for the Televizier-Ster Jeugd award. She has starred in many short and feature films, shown at different festivals as the Nederlands Film Festival, the Cannes Film Festival and Cinekid. She was also in several other tv-film productions, for example Scars for KRO/NCRV. Other credits include various children's tv-shows, for example Nickelodeon's Hunter Street, NTR's Hoelahoep and School TV What's Up, and tv-series as De K van Karlijn, De Spa and Bitterzoet.