Claudia Christian
Commander Susan Ivonova from Babylon 5
 
"I guess you could say I'm the ultimate hyphen," laughs Claudia
Christian. Very much aware of her
actress-writer-singer-songwriter-director-producer-voice-over-artist-chef-renaissance
woman moniker, she still manages to expand her horizons and tackle new
goals every year.
She's come a long way baby! From Connecticut to Laguna Beach where she
won a drama scholarship, she then decided to take the plunge and move to
Los Angeles to follow her dream of being in films and television. She
landed her first TV series at 18 on NBC's nighttime drama Berringers and
then her first feature at 20 playing a male alien trapped in a
stripper's body in the cult hit The Hidden. "I still get recognized from
that film! It was very popular with frat boys and video fanatics who all
feel that the film was way before it's time".
She went on to star in studio pictures such as Clean and Sober with
Morgan Freeman and Michael Keaton and Hexed, a black comedy directed by
Alan Spencer (Sledge Hammer) that Christian was convinced would make her
a star "hey, I was really funny in that movie..too bad only 30 people
saw it..." Over 50 films and hundreds of TV shows later, Claudia can
count among her co-stars, George Clooney, Faye Dunaway, Burt Lancaster,
Sharon Stone, Kirk Douglas, Peter Falk, Charlie Sheen, Judd Nelson and
Nick Cage amongst many others.
In addition to her acting credits Christian has made 5 albums with acts
such as the John Lennon Song Writing Award---winning band Bubble to her
Babylon 5 costar Bill Mumy. She has also provided the voice for Helga
Sinclair in Disney's Atlantis and was the voice of Jaguar cars for many
years and has won the golden head set award for her portrayal of Anne
Manx in the award winning series of books. Her latest animated feature
Geppetto's Secret will be released some time next year.
Claudia moved to London in 2005 and immediately was cast in the BBC
comedy Broken News. She also starred in the independent Sci Fi comedy
series STAR HYKE. In August of 2006, Claudia debuted on stage in her
first UK play, "Killing Time" at the world famous Edinburgh festival.
She was rewarded for her efforts with a best actress nomination.
Claudia also writes fiction and has her first novel Baptism of Fire
based on the Emmy and Hugo award winning series she starred in for 4
years, Babylon 5, coming out in 2007. She is currently about to start
filming the action-drama feature film "Dot Man" in Bucharest, Romania,
in December of 2006.
Claudia Christian is not only a renaissance woman; she is a force of
nature. |