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Sharon Delores Clarke is an English actress and singer. She is a three-time Olivier Award winner, and is best known to television audiences for her role as Lola Griffin in the medical drama Holby City, and as Grace O'Brien in Doctor Who. 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 had a prolific stage career. She won the 2014 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her role in James Baldwin's The Amen Corner. She won her second Olivier for Best Actress in a Musical for her role as Caroline Thibodeaux in the 2018 West End production of Caroline, or Change, a role she reprised on Broadway in 2021, earning her both Tony and Grammy Award nominations. In October 2020, she won her third Olivier for her role in the revival of Death of a Salesman at London's Young Vic.

She is also known for her music career providing lead vocals for the house music acts FPI Project and Nomad.

Clarke is known for her role in the BBC medical drama Holby City, in which she played Lola Griffin, a doctor with ancestors from Ghana who first appeared in 2005. She left the programme in 2008. Clarke reprised the role for one episode in 2019.[citation needed]

Other television roles include the character of Gran'Ma Flossie in the CBBC show The Crust.[citation needed] Clarke's other TV credits include Waking the Dead, Soldier Soldier, Broken Glass, Between the Lines, Children's Ward, Stop, Look & Listen – Mary Seacole, Past Caring, The Singing Detective, EastEnders, Boo! and Informer.[citation needed]

On 10 August 2010, Clarke appeared in an episode of The Bill, "Death Knock", as brothel owner Denise Jones.[citation needed]

On 24 January 2011, she appeared in EastEnders, as Connor Stanley's mother Kendra.[citation needed] In May 2011, Clarke starred in the BBC drama The Shadow Line as Mrs. Dixon, appearing in episodes 2 and 3.[citation needed]

Clarke voices the character of Treetog in the CBeebies series Tree Fu Tom as well as voicing “One Hundred” on the animated series Numberblocks.[citation needed]

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