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Melanie Clark Pullen (2 July 1975 – 29 March 2022) was an Irish actress, film producer and writer.


Career

Born and raised in Ireland, Clark Pullen attended
Newpark Comprehensive School Newpark Comprehensive School () is a mixed, Church of Ireland, state comprehensive secondary school in Blackrock, County Dublin, Ireland. It was established in 1972. History Newpark has a Christian tradition, reflecting its origins with ...
and then studied drama at
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. Shortly after graduating, in June 1997, she was cast in her most notable role as Mary Flaherty in the
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soap opera ''
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''. Playing the long-lost relative of
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(
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), Clark Pullen remained in the role for 18 months until her departure in early 1999. After Albert Square, she appeared in
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's big-budget costume drama ''
Lady Audley's Secret ''Lady Audley's Secret'' is a sensation novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon published in 1862. John Sutherland. "Lady Audley's Secret" in ''The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction'', 1989. It was Braddon's most successful and well-known novel. ...
'', starred in '' Catherine Cookson's A Dinner of Herbs'' and featured alongside Sir
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and
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in the remake of the classic ''
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'', all in 2000. Other credits include ''
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'' (2000), '' The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse'' (2005) and '' The Clinic'' (2006). On stage, Clark Pullen starred as Mariane in ''
Tartuffe ''Tartuffe, or The Impostor, or The Hypocrite'' (; french: Tartuffe, ou l'Imposteur, ), first performed in 1664, is a theatrical comedy by Molière. The characters of Tartuffe, Elmire, and Orgon are considered among the greatest classical thea ...
'' at the Lyttelton Theatre in 2002; appeared as Perdita in
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's ''
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'' in the 2001 production at the National Theatre; and co-wrote and starred in ''Missing Stars'' at the
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in 2001. In 2006, Clark Pullen wrote, directed and produced the short film ''Marion agus an Banphrionsa'' (''Marion and the Princess''), for which she won the Gradam Gael Linn award for the Best Short in the Irish Language at the 51st Cork Film Festival."Awards Archive: 51st Cork Film Festival"
'' CorkFilmFest.org'' (2006); retrieved 20 August 2009. She also produced another short, ''Sounds Good'' (2004), which was written by her partner, Simon Maxwell. Clark Pullen appeared as Lisa Bacchus playing the wife of Policeman Sergeant John Bacchus in the BBC drama, ''
Inspector George Gently ''Inspector George Gently'' (also known as ''George Gently'' for the pilot and first series) is a 2008 British television crime drama series produced by Company Pictures for BBC One, set in the 1960s and loosely based on some of the Inspector G ...
''.


Personal life

Clark Pullen was married to the writer Simon Maxwell. After leaving ''EastEnders'' she admitted to suffering from
panic attack Panic attacks are sudden periods of intense fear and discomfort that may include palpitations, sweating, chest pain or chest discomfort, shortness of breath, trembling, dizziness, numbness, confusion, or a feeling of impending doom or of losing ...
s and depression as she struggled to cope with the instant fame she received from being in such a high-profile show. In a bid to help others cope with depression she teamed up with another writer, Aoife Maguire, to create ''Missing Stars'', a play that was staged in 2001 in which she also starred. The purpose of the play was to show sufferers of depression that help is available. Having initially been diagnosed with cancer in January 2019, a year later, she was given the all clear by doctors. She died from a brain tumour on 29 March 2022, at the age of 46. It is unclear if the cancer which claimed her life was related to the one with which she had originally been diagnosed. She was survived by her husband, three children, and her sister.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Clark Pullen, Melanie 1975 births 2022 deaths Irish soap opera actresses Irish stage actresses Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Irish television actresses People from Bray, County Wicklow Deaths from brain tumor Place of death missing