Clare Crockett was born in Londonderry in Northern Ireland. After a brief career as a presenter and actress, she became a religious sister in the Sister Servants of the Home of the Mother in 2001, taking final vows in 2010. Missioned to Playa Prieta in Ecuador she was a music teacher at Holy Family College and was killed with five postulants as they attempted to escape from a building during the earthquake that devastated the region in 2016.