Clare Grogan
- Actor and singer
Press clippings
Mortimer And Whitehouse Gone Hogmanay Fishing review
You won't find a cheerier meditation on dying this Christmas. Bob and Paul share photos of their dead fathers, talk ill health - then rock out to 80s pop. Expect to shed a tear or two.
Stuart Jeffries, The Guardian, 29th December 2023Blu-ray: Gregory's Girl
Bill Forsyth's peerless romantic comedy returns.
Graham Rickson, The Arts Desk, 26th September 2023Gregory's Girl: 'The affection for it overwhelms me'
Hardly a day goes by without somebody asking Clare Grogan to quote a line from Gregory's Girl, the teenage romantic comedy set in a Scottish new town which became an unlikely hit when it was released 40 years ago this week.
Steven Brocklehurst, BBC, 24th April 2021Gregory's Girl 40th anniversary
As we mark the 40-year anniversary of the Cumbernauld cinematic sensation, I look at how I fell in love with the awkward, clumsy Gregory in a modern world where boys take themselves far too seriously, writes Hannah Brown.
Hannah Gordon, The Scotsman, 23rd April 2021Celebrating 25 years of Father Ted's hilarity
Twenty-five years ago today, a phenomenon burst upon our television screens. The first showing of Father Ted on Channel 4 brought us the strange and very, very funny world of Craggy Island and its trio of priests with their housekeeper.
Martin Hannan, The National (Scotland), 21st April 2020Red Dwarf: revisiting the sixth series
With Red Dwarf back on our screens recently for its twelfth series, I'm rewatching it all from the beginning. This week it's time to be "better dead than smeg" in Red Dwarf VI.
Sophie Davies, Cult Box, 24th November 2017Gregory's Girl: Lead actors go back to school
It was the movie that changed the Scottish film industry and made stars of its two unknown leads. In a BBC Scotland documentary John Gordon Sinclair and Clare Grogan go back to the school in Cumbernauld where Gregory's Girl was filmed.
Steven Brocklehurst, BBC News, 11th December 2012