66 Facts About Clare Devine

Clare Devine is a fictional character from the British Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks, played by actresses Gemma Bissix and Samantha Rowley.

Bissix has won three British Soap Awards for her portrayal of Clare Devine, and has been named one of the best British soap opera characters.

Max and Clare try to keep their relationship a secret from O B, but after moving in, O B finds out but agrees to keep peace.

Clare Devine becomes friends with Mandy Hutchinson and Louise Summers, and participates in a time-share scam set up by Louise's ex-husband Sean Kennedy while on a holiday in late night special Hollyoaks: Back from the Dead.

Clare Devine used Mel's alcoholism against her when she attempts to expose the affair.

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Clare Devine convinces Max to give her £50,000, which she plans to use to flee Hollyoaks.

Clare Devine then decides to kill Max and flee the country with his money.

When he returns home, Clare Devine begins secluding Max from his friends and tampers with his medication.

Clare Devine takes Tom and Max away for a Christmas holiday near an icy lake.

Clare Devine starts hitting herself and calls the police claiming Max has hit her.

Clare Devine informs Warren that his sister Katy is in a relationship with Justin, this leads to Warren being arrested for beating him up.

Clare Devine then has Warren arrested for Sean's murder after receiving information from Justin.

Clare Devine convinces Louise to have her unborn child aborted and tell fiance Calvin Valentine it was a miscarriage.

Clare Devine later tells him the truth causing them to split up.

Clare Devine then manipulates Tom into thinking he caused the deaths of his parents and baby Grace Hutchinson and would cause Max's death, this frightening Tom, he refuses to see Max, making his social worker believe he is being abused.

That night, Clare Devine goes onto The Loft balcony to investigate a noise, there, she is pushed by a mystery person.

Clare Devine falls into a coma as the police question several people over her attack.

Two days after her presumed death, Clare Devine is revealed to have survived as she arrives in a first class departures lounge in an airport.

Clare Devine meets a wealthy businessman named Miles, who she starts chatting to seductively.

Clare introduces herself as "Clare Devine" before staring at the camera for a brief moment, breaking the fourth wall.

Clare Devine informs Warren that she has returned for revenge on him and Justin for ruining her life and to get Warren's money.

Clare Devine is knocked unconscious by Clare, who assumes she is Justin.

Clare Devine initially tries to bribe Calvin, but CID turn up behind him and Clare Devine is dragged off kicking and screaming aggressively.

Clare Devine returned to Hollyoaks village shortly after Doctor Browning's return, where he reveals to Myra McQueen that Mercedes has gone missing in Las Vegas.

Clare Devine, going under the alias of "Cassandra Knight", tracks down Doctor Browning at his apartment and pretends to be just as shocked as Doctor Browning when he opens a letter addressed to him demanding "£100,000 or Mercedes dies".

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Clare Devine informed Doctor Browning that she saw Mercedes getting into a limo with another man in Vegas in a bid to seduce him, to which he declines.

Doctor Browning then correctly suspects Clare Devine knew something about Mercedes' disappearance, however he soon discards this theory as he then suspects Mercedes probably wrote the letter herself.

Clare Devine tells Mercedes that Doctor Browning suspects she wrote the ransom note, and that they need to work harder to get ransom money out of him before punching her in the face.

Clare Devine soon persuades Doctor Browning to buy Chez Chez so that they can be business partners.

Clare Devine initially agrees based on their camaraderie in Vegas, but he then discovers from Jim that "Cassandra Knight" does not exist.

Clare Devine then says that she is not conning him, because if she was, she would have finished with him already.

Clare Devine is then seen returning to her hotel room, where Mercedes is seen relaxing and their conversation shows that she is apparently helping Clare with the scam.

Clare Devine helps Mercedes fake her disappearance and blackmail him for ransom money.

Clare Devine eventually gives Mercedes the key to get out of the cage but as she and Browning attempt freedom, Claire's two rabid dogs rush towards them, barking angrily, so the twosome have to lock themselves back in again.

Clare Devine eventually gives Mercedes the key to get out of the cage but as she and Doctor Browning attempt freedom, the two dogs rush back towards them angrily barking so the twosome have to lock themselves back in again.

Clare Devine angrily accuses Tom of having her ransom money which he denies and offers his piggy bank money and tries to tell her there is money in the kitchen and the till.

Clare Devine gets angry at this and brings up Max's name, reminding Tom that he remembers how angry she got with Max.

Clare Devine manages to catch Clare and pins her to the ground until the police come and arrest Clare and tells the Osborne's it's not over and that she knows Tom has her money.

Clare Devine tells him never to return and she will not forgive him.

However Clare Devine cannot cope with prison life and eventually accepts help.

When she is released Fraser hands over The Loft to Clare Devine, knowing she held a sharehold of the club in prior years.

Clare Devine reveals during a conversation with Fraser's hitman Trevor Royle that she was pregnant with his baby many years prior and Fraser pushed her down the stairs, causing her to miscarry.

Clare Devine enlists the help of Trevor, telling him Fraser would likely kill him to this day if he realised Trevor got Clare pregnant at a young age.

Clare Devine then invites Mercedes to have her 30th birthday party in The Loft, with the promise of a free venue fee.

The McQueens are enjoying themselves in the Loft when Clare Devine chooses her moment to detonate the bomb, but Trevor gets cold feet when he realises there are people in the loft.

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Clare Devine gets to the phone first and presses the 'call' button, and instead, a block of council flats blow up after Sinead O'Connor took the bag containing the bomb to a party by mistake, killing Leanne, Ash Kane, Doug Carter.

When outside, Mercedes confronts Clare Devine, telling her she belongs in prison, Claire responds viciously, where she states she would only like to be locked up for Mercedes' murder.

Clare Devine went upstairs with Max one night, then the next morning, I came down.

When Clare Devine originally arrived in 2005 played by Samantha Rowley, she was rather likeable and friendly.

Clare Devine became a con-woman, marrying Max Cunningham simply for his money.

Clare Devine made several attempts to kill Max, however was unsuccessful.

Almost two years later, Clare Devine returned for her revenge on Warren Fox and Justin Burton, where she was arrested for Warren's murder.

Kris Green from Digital Spy revealed that Clare Devine could be returning to the show to coincide with Warren Fox and Justin Burton's exit storylines.

The succeeding producer Lucy Allan told Kris Green from Digital Spy that Clare Devine was "pivotal in the culmination" of Justin and Warren's departure stories.

Clare Devine added that it would have been a "disservice" to the show not to feature her.

Clare Devine told the Press Association that old viewers pledged to watch the show again upon Clare's reemergence.

Clare Devine was only written back into the series for the short storyline as Bissix had other work commitments.

However Clare Devine was killed off in another "shock" storyline twist, which sees Doctor Browning run her over with his car following Clare Devine's bomb attempt on The Loft.

Clare Devine explained that Clare's departure would ultimately allow other villains to become embroiled in main storylines.

Bissix has acknowledged the comparisons but noted that Clare Devine lacks emotion, kills people and taunts little children.

Clare Devine was featured on a list of "bunny boilers" compiled in the Radio Times.

Clare Devine made enemies easily, notably Warren and Justin, and when she was pushed over a balcony and almost killed, the list of suspects was longer than the electoral roll.

Clare Devine branded Clare as a "fabulous character" deserving more than being "a mere plot device" in other character's departures.

Clare Devine was placed at number 7 in a Virgin Media feature about "soap's greatest comebacks".

Clare Devine last resurfaced, in barking mad fashion, to kill off arch-enemy Warren Fox.

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From Bissix' time in the serial, her portrayal of Clare Devine placed the character in a minority group of the most memorable villains in the shows history.