Clare Balding

Career Overview

Clare Balding has 29 screen credits in a career dating back to 1990. Signature works include Game On: The Unstoppable Rise of Women's Sport, The Sporting L Word, The Kennedy Who Changed The World. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.

Personal Facts

Known For

Acting

Gender

female

Known Credits

29

Birth Date

1971-01-29

Birth Place

Kingsclere, Hampshire, UK

Known For

• 

  Game On: The Unstoppable Rise of Women's Sport
• The Sporting L Word
• 

  The Kennedy Who Changed The World
• 

  When Football Banned Women
• 

  Clare Balding's Secrets of a Suffragette
• Searching for Shergar

Frequent Collaborators

• Ali Bowes (1 collaborations)
• Poppy Cleall (1 collaborations)
• Pamela Cookey (1 collaborations)
• Stacey Copeland (1 collaborations)
• Tanni Grey-Thompson (1 collaborations)
• Denise Lewis (1 collaborations)
• Ugo Monye (1 collaborations)
• Kelly Smith (1 collaborations)
• Laura Woods (1 collaborations)
• Emma Ross (1 collaborations)

Credits

• actors (27 credits)

  • Have I Got a Bit More News for You

    - Episode 1 (2012) ... Self - Presenter actor actors

    - Episode 4 (2010) ... Self - Panellist actor actors

    - Episode 3 (2009) ... Self - Panellist actor actors

    - Episode 7 (2008) ... Self - Panellist actor actors
    2026
  • The Celebrity Traitors

    - Episode 4 (2025) ... Self - Contestant actor actors

    - Episode 3 (2025) ... Self - Contestant actor actors

    - Episode 2 (2025) ... Self - Contestant actor actors

    - Episode 1 (2025) ... Self - Contestant actor actors
    2025
  • Katy Perry: Night of a Lifetime

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2024
  • Game On: The Unstoppable Rise of Women's Sport

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2023
  • Dream Horse

    Herself

    actor

    actors
    2021
  • The Sporting L Word

    actor

    actors
    2021
  • Michael McIntyre's The Wheel

    - Episode 5 (2025) ... Self - Expert actor actors

    - Episode 7 (2024) ... Self - Expert actor actors

    - Episode 1 (2023) ... Self - Expert actor actors

    - Episode 4 (2022) ... Self - Expert actor actors

    - Episode 1 (2021) ... Self - Expert actor actors
    2020
  • The Kennedy Who Changed The World

    Narrator (voice)

    actor

    actors
    2019
  • Celebrity Gogglebox

    - Episode 1 (2024) ... Self actor actors

    - Episode 6 (2023) ... actor actors

    - Episode 4 (2023) ... actor actors

    - Episode 3 (2022) ... actor actors

    - Episode 2 (2022) ... actor actors
    2019
  • Searching for Shergar

    Herself

    actor

    actors
    2018
  • Saturday Knight Takeaway

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2018
  • The Missing Crown Jewels

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2017
  • When Football Banned Women

    Herself - Presenter

    actor

    actors
    2017
  • House of Games

    - Week 13: Friday (2021) ... Self - Contestant actor actors

    - Week 13: Thursday (2021) ... Self - Contestant actor actors

    - Week 13: Wednesday (2021) ... Self - Contestant actor actors

    - Week 13: Tuesday (2021) ... Self - Contestant actor actors

    - Week 13: Monday (2021) ... Self - Contestant actor actors
    2017
  • Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em Sport Relief Special

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2016
  • The Sarah Millican Television Programme - Best of Series 1-2

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2013
  • Clare Balding's Secrets of a Suffragette

    Host

    actor

    actors
    2013
  • The Last Leg

    - Episode 1 (2016) ... Self actor actors

    - Episode 1 (2014) ... Self actor actors
    2013
  • Pointless Celebrities

    - Episode 14 (2025) ... Self - Contestant actor actors
    2011
  • A League of Their Own

    - Clare Balding, Rob Beckett, Chemmy Alcott & Harry Winks (2019) ... Self - Guest Host actor actors
    2010
  • An Audience with Neil Diamond

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2008
  • Would I Lie to You?

    - Clare Balding, Asim Chaudhry, Victoria Coren Mitchell and Greg James (2019) ... Self actor actors

    - Clare Balding, Rhod Gilbert, Nick Grimshaw, Rob Delaney (2015) ... Self actor actors

    - Richard Bacon, Dale Winton, Clare Balding, Miranda Hart (2012) ... Self actor actors
    2007
  • The Graham Norton Show

    - Minnie Driver, Stephen Merchant, Clare Balding, The Script. (2013) ... Self actor actors
    2007
  • The One Show

    - 05/06/2025 (2025) ... Self actor actors

    - October 21, 2009 (2009) ... Self actor actors

    - September 3, 2009 (2009) ... Self actor actors

    - August 11, 2009 (2009) ... Self actor actors

    - July 15, 2009 (2009) ... Self actor actors
    2006
  • QI

    - Horses and Hunting (2010) ... Self actor actors
    2003
  • Ready, Steady, Cook

    - Episode 114 (2005) ... Self - Contestant actor actors
    1994
  • Have I Got News for You

    - Clare Balding, Graham Linehan, Ken Livingstone (2012) ... Self - Hostess actor actors

    - Jeremy Clarkson,, Andy Hamilton, Clare Balding (2010) ... Self actor actors

    - Jack Dee, Clare Balding, Fred Macaulay (2009) ... Self actor actors

    - Alexander Armstrong, Michael McIntyre, Clare Balding (2008) ... Self actor actors

    - Jack Dee, Sir Clement Freud, Clare Balding (2003) ... Self actor actors
    1990

• writing (2 credits)

  • The Sporting L Word

    writer

    writing
    2021
  • Clare Balding's Secrets of a Suffragette

    writer

    writing
    2013