INTERVIEW: CLARE ANYIAM-OSIGWE.
FILM DIRECTOR & ACTRESS.
For those who may not know you could you tell us a little bit about yourself?
beans on toast for the rest of my life or actually I can use some of my other skills
My name is Clare Anyiam-Osigwe and I am quite a lot of things. I guess I started as a Drama TV graduate who was a part-time makeup artist working at the Body Shop and Bobbi Brown, then after I graduated I was a working actress so I started doing parts on TV for ITV and Sky. I realised quickly, I carried on training I went to Lamda and Identity drama school, it didn’t matter how much you trained it was really about who you know and whether you were cast-able. So I just thought I can either starve eating
Clare created her own skin care line called premae the world’s first allergen beauty company using vegan friendly ingredients which has been nominated for numerous awards What’s the inspiration behind your practice? Being a brown skinned black girl, I’m African-Nigerian but London born and there just wasn’t that many stories 12 years ago that we were predominantly featured in, if
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