Claudia Christian

Christian was born in Glendale, California, the daughter of Hildegard (née Christian), who worked as the director of Giorgio Beverly Hills, and James Michael Coghlan.[7][8][9] Her mother is from Germany and her father has Irish ancestry.[10][11] She was raised in Connecticut and England.[10]

Christian's first role on television was a guest appearance on Dallas,[3][12] followed by a series regular role as Melody Hughes on the short-lived drama Berrenger's.[3] She performed feature-film roles such as a stripper possessed by an alien serial killer in The Hidden (1987),[3] police department psychologist Susan Riley in Maniac Cop 2[1] and model Hexina in Hexed (1993).[1]

In 1994–1998, she appeared as Commander Susan Ivanova, one of the series leads, in the first four seasons of Babylon 5. She left unexpectedly when contract negotiations for the fifth and final season – aggravated by the possibility that there would not be one – broke down.[13] J. Michael Straczynski, the series' creator, maintains that she chose to leave on her own. However, Christian stated that she did wish to return for the fifth season, but was rebuffed and let go when she requested a small reduction in the number of episodes she would appear in so that she could complete another project.[14] She appeared in the series finale, which had been filmed during the fourth season, when it seemed likely that the series would end prematurely, and subsequently reprised her role in Babylon 5: In the Beginning and Babylon 5: Thirdspace.

She posed nude for Playboy magazine in October 1999, appeared in two episodes of Freaks and Geeks in 2000, and appeared in the She Spies 2002 episode "Spy vs Spy". In 2004, she returned to the live stage (and to Laguna Beach, California, where she had attended high school), starring in the United States premiere of Michael Weller's play What the Night is For, with Kip Gilman, directed by Richard Stein, at the Laguna Playhouse. She starred in the BBC comedy series Broken News in 2005. She also plays Janine Foster, mother of Peri Brown, in the Doctor Who audio drama The Reaping, produced by Big Finish Productions released in the United Kingdom in September 2006.

She voices Anne Manx in the full cast recordings for the Radio Repertory Company of America.[1] In 2010, Christian appeared in the Showtime series Look: The Series.

She also had a music career, having released a solo album, Once Upon a Time,[3] a single, "Taboo",[3] a collaboration with Claudia Cummings, Claudia Squared,[3] and a collaboration with some of the other cast members of Babylon 5 on the album The Be Five.

In 2016, she appeared as Captain Maureen Ferran in Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare.

In 2017 she gueststarred in the NCIS episode "Willoughby" (season 14 episode 11) as Agent Louise Moreau.

In 2019, Christian was announced to be starring in Netflix's upcoming animated mythology series Gods and Heroes in which she would voice the goddess Hera.

Christian conceived her own convention, Claudia Con UK, which took place in the United Kingdom on August 13–14, 2011.[15]

Christian has been publicizing The Sinclair Method, a treatment for alcohol dependency, through her book Babylon Confidential.[16] In this book she recalls her own experiences with the condition, and credits The Sinclair Method for saving her life in 2009.[17][18]

She made a documentary titled One Little Pill[19][20] about the method under the auspices of the C3 Foundation, which she founded in order to reach more sufferers of addiction who might benefit from the Sinclair Method.[6]

• "Revenge is a Bitch to Swallow." Short story. Published in Forbidden Love Issue 2: Wicked Women.[23]
• My Life With Geeks and Freaks. Autobiography. Published by Yard Dog Press.
• Babylon Confidential: A Memoir of Love, Sex, and Addiction Autobiography.[16]
• Wolf's Empire: Gladiator. Novel, co-written with Morgan Grant Buchanan. 2016.

• Claudia Squared with Claudia Cummings (1996)
• Trying to Forget by The Be Five (1998)
• "Taboo" single (1998, Zard)
• Once Upon a Time (2001, Zard)

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