Acting Career
Grogan was originally obliged to appear as C. P. Grogan because there was already a member of Equity named Claire Grogan (the other Claire Grogan went on to become a photographer). She would later drop the i from her first name.
Her breakthrough acting role was in Gregory's Girl as the character Susan in 1981. Grogan almost lost the part after being cast when she suffered a severe facial wound in a Glasgow pub just weeks prior to filming. However, director Bill Forsyth refused to recast the role and Grogan was filmed mostly profile; when filmed in close up, makeup artists covered Grogan's scar with morticians wax.
In 1984 she played Charlotte in Forsyth's Comfort and Joy. In 1985 she was the receptionist in the BBC Television version of Blott on the Landscape. She had a recurring role playing Dave Lister's would-be love-interest, Kristine Kochanski, in series 1, 2 and 6 of the TV show Red Dwarf. In series 7 she was replaced by Chloë Annett. Grogan has also appeared in Father Ted (episode "Rock-a-Hula Ted") and in EastEnders as Ian Beale's love interest, Ros Thorne (1997–1998).
She has also been a talk show host in the UK. She played control-freak office manager Sandra Reeves in the 2006 film The Penalty King. She appears in the video for Peter Kay and Matt Lucas' charity single "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)", recorded for Comic Relief's Red Nose Day 2007. She also played Danny's mother in Legit.
Grogan appearred in the TV series Skins, as Shelley, the mother of Mini McGuinness.
Grogan played the part of Rita in a stage adaptation of Educating Rita at Dundee Repertory Theatre in 1987.
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