Clare Buckfield (born 10 April 1976), is an English actress, best known for playing the role of Jenny Porter in the BBC sitcom 2point4 children for much of the nineties.

A graduate of the Sylvia Young Theatre School in London, Buckfield originally auditioned for the part of Natalie Stevens in BBC 1 teenage soap “Grange Hill”. She lost out to her twin sister Julie who was auditioning for the part of Chrissy Mainwaring, but Clare eventually won the role of Natasha Stevens in 1992.

Clare and Julie competed again to replace Georgina Cates in 2point4, but this time Clare got the part over Julie.

In 2004, Buckfield landed the role of Firefighter Katy Bell in Steel River Blues, a programme intended to fill the void left by London’s Burning on ITV1. Unfortunately the series was not re-comissioned beyond its intial seven episode run.

Buckfield has also appeared in episodes of Dangerfield, Doctors & Holby City.

She is to appear as a contestant in the second series of ITV1 show Dancing on Ice in 2007.

Personal Life

In 2003, she broke up with her long term fiancée Declan Donnelly, of TV duo Ant & Dec.

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