Justine Clarke: Growing up with a single mum taught me resilience

By Steve Dow
Updated February 6 2017 - 2:14pm, first published February 3 2017 - 9:15am
Justine Clarke wears Ellery “Humulis” top with lurex neck, $995, and “Beedee” lurex skirt, $1445, from Parlour X. Photo: Hugh Stewart
Justine Clarke wears Ellery “Humulis” top with lurex neck, $995, and “Beedee” lurex skirt, $1445, from Parlour X. Photo: Hugh Stewart

In the fable-like stage play Cyrano de Bergerac, the smart, beautiful Roxane is not meant to live happily ever after with the handsome young nobleman, Christian, who merely mouths the words of the bignosed poet Cyrano. But when Justine Clarke, actor, singer and newly minted Play School alumnus, began rehearsing the play at Sydney Theatre Company with the dashing Jack Finsterer in 1999, they saw into one another's souls.

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