Claudia christian

Claudia Ann Christian is an American actress, writer, singer, and film director.

Summary

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• 1 Biographical synthesis
• 2 Interpretations
• 3 Filmography: TV and movies
  • 1 Cinema
• 4 TV movies
• 5 TV Series
• 6 Guest appearances
• 7 Sources

Biographical synthesis

Christian was born in Glendale, California. Her first television role was a guest appearance in Dallas, followed by a series regular role as Melody Hughes on the short-lived drama, Berrenger’s.

Interpretations

She is best known for her role as Commander Susan Ivanova on the science fiction television series Babylon 5. She left the series unexpectedly after season four, when contract negotiations for the fifth and final season – exacerbated by the possibility that it would not be the only one – to collapse. J. Michael Straczynski, the creator of the series, maintains that she decided to leave him.1 (Her appearance in the series finale was filmed during the fourth season).

Before Babylon 5, Christian played movie roles as an alien-possessed stripper in The Hidden (1987), a police department psychologist, Susan Riley in Maniac Cop 2, and as the model Hexina in Hexed (1993). She posed nude for Playboy magazine in October 1999. She appeared in two episodes of Freaks and Geeks in 2000. In 2004, she returned to the live stage (and to Laguna Beach, California, where she had attended high school), starring in the premiere. American Michael Weller’s What the Night Is For, with Kip Gilman, directed by Richard Stein, at the Laguna Playhouse. He starred in the BBC comedy Broken News in 2005.

She also played Janine Foster, mother of Peri Brown, on the Doctor Who radio drama “The Reaping,” produced by Big Finish Productions released in the UK in September 2006. She also appeared on the 2002 episode of She Spies, “Spy vs Spy”. He has a musical career, having made three albums Taboo, Claudia Squared and Once Upon a Time as well as collaborating with some of the other Babylon 5 cast members on the album The Be Five.

She stars in the Showtime series Look, which began filming in June 2009 in Los Angeles. He also lent his voice in the Old Game The elder scroll V: Skyrim (2011).

Filmography: TV and movies

Movie theater

TV movies

• Calendar Girl Murders (1984) …. Kara
• A Masterpiece of Murder (1986) …. Julia Forsythe
• Houston: The Legend of Texas (1986) …. aka Gone to Texas (1986)
• The Highwayman (1987) …. Dawn … aka Terror on the Blacktop (1987)
• Police Story: Monster Manor (1988) …. Officer Babs Altoon
• Shannon’s Deal (1989)
• Kaleidoscope (1990) …. Meagan … aka Danielle Steel’s ‘Kaleidoscope’
• Lies of the Twins (1991) …. Felice
• The Woman Who Sinned (1991) …. Judy Reinhardt
• Strays (1991) …. Claire Lederer
• Lancelot: Guardian of Time (1997) …. Katherine Shelley
• A Wing and a Prayer (1998) …. Shelley Lowe
• Babylon 5: In the Beginning (1998) …. Susan Ivanova
• Babylon 5: Thirdspace (1998) …. Susan Ivanova
• Running Home (1999) …. Jules Daniels
• Substitute 3: The Winner Takes All (1999) …. Andy
• Final Voyage (1999) …. Ma

TV series

• Blacke’s Magic (1986) Series Regular …. Laurie
• Berrenger’s (1985) Series Regular …. Melody Hughes
• Babylon 5 (1994) Series Regular …. Commander Susan Ivanova
• Freaks and Geeks (1999) Recurring …. Gloria Haverchuck
• Star Hyke (2005) Series Regular ….. Captain Belinda Blowhard
• Broken News (2005) Series Regular …. Julia Regan
• Look (2009) Series Regular

Guest appearances

• Webster (1983)
• TJ Hooker (1982) Betty MacRae in the episode: “The Lipstick Killer” (1984)
• Dallas (1978) in the episode: “Some Do … Some Don’t” (1984)
• Falcon Crest (1981) … Kate Mars in the episode: “Tests Of Faith” (1984)
• Riptide (1984) …. Marion Gordon in the episode: “Where The Girls Are” (1984)
• The A-Team (1983) …. Cathy Rogers in the episode: “Trouble Brewing” (1985)
• Hunter (1984) …. Roxanne Hoffmeyer in the episode: “Love, Hate, and Sporty James”
• Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer (1984) in episodes: “Elegy for a Tramp”, “Shots in the Dark”
• Jake and the Fatman (1987) …. Lt. Alex Walker
• It’s Garry Shandling’s Show (1986) …. Sylvia in the episode: “Dial L for Laundry” (1987)
• Quantum Leap (1989) …. Allison in the episode: “Play It Again, Seymour” (1989)
• Matlock (1986) …. Mickey Alder in the episode: “The Blackmailer” (1990)
• Murder, She Wrote (1984) …. Bonnie Jenks Hastings in the episode: “Prodigal Father, (1991)
• LA Law (1986) …. Susan Convers in the episode: “Speak, Lawyers, for Me” (1991)
• Dark Justice (1991) …. Dana Hollister Harrison (1991)
• Space Rangers (1993) …. Marla Baker in the episode: “Death Before Dishonor”
• Relentless: Mind of a Killer (1993) …. Leeann Hardy
• Columbo (1993) …. Lisa in the episode: “It’s All In the Game”
• Total Security (1997) …. Cheryl Bankston in the episode: “Pilot”
• Highlander: The Series …. Katherine in the episode: “Two of Hearts” (1997)
• Family Law (2000) in the episode: “Are You My Father?”
• Relic Hunter (2001) …. Carson Inez in the episode: “All Choked up”
• NYPD Blue (2002) …. Catherine Lowell in the episode “Better Laid Than Never”
• She Spies (2002) …. Tanya in the episode “Spy vs Spies”
• Everwood (2003) …. Young Edna
• Nip / Tuck (2007) …. Gwen