Early life

Black was born and raised in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She was educated at the Anglican Kambala School, in Sydney, NSW. Black has lived, for extensive periods, in Australia, New Zealand, Spain, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States. Her parents are Australian Medical Academics Doctors Jules and Judy Black.

Career

Claudia has acted in Australian and New Zealand in television and movies. She portrayed an intersex woman named Jill Mayhew in the Australian television series Good Guys Bad Guys. She also had a leading role in the New Zealand soap opera City Life playing the role of Greek lawyer Angela Kostapas.

Black gained international recognition for her role in Farscape, and was nominated for a Saturn Award in the Best Actress category in both 2001 and 2002, and won the award in 2005. She has appeared in the feature films Queen of the Damned and Pitch Black. After Farscape ended, Black appeared as Vala Mal Doran in the Stargate SG-1 episode "Prometheus Unbound"; her performance was popular with producers and fans alike, and was invited to reprise her role in the show's ninth season when series regular Amanda Tapping went on maternity leave. Black returned to the series as a regular cast member for the tenth and final season, and also starred in Stargate: The Ark of Truth and Stargate: Continuum, films which wrapped up the series' story lines. Black co-starred with Ben Browder in both series.

In 2004, she was voted "#7 Hottest Scifi Babe" by Scifi WorldNet.

In the NBC TV show Life (2007), Black was cast in the supporting role of Jennifer Conover for the initial pilot. Due to Black's second pregnancy, the part was recast and the role was given to the actress Jennifer Siebel when the series was bought by the TV network. NBC still used footage of Black, and none of Siebel, when promoting the TV series' debut.

Popular at sci-fi conventions, Black showed her talent at singing and playing the guitar at the Farscape conventions, and in 2007 sang on the debut album of musician and fellow Farscape actor Paul Goddard.

Black has also appeared in theater. She once played Portia in a tour of the Merchant of Venice. She has also had parts in Spotlight on Women, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Loose Ends and Pick Ups for the Belvoir street theatre; Little Women and The World Knot for the Bicentennial Opera.

Since 2007, Black has also been a prolific video game voice actress. She has gained particular attention for her work with BioWare's Dragon Age and Mass Effect series. Her son Odin Black voiced her Dragon Age character's son in Dragon Age: Inquisition.

Filmography

List of live-action and voice performances in television

Year	Series	Role	Notes	Source
000000001992-11-18-00001992	Home and Away	Sandra
000000001993-03-30-00001993	G. P.	Joanna	Episode: "A Thousand Flowers: Part 1"
000000001993-09-02-00001993	Police Rescue	Julia	Episode: "Double Illusion"
000000001993-11-16-00001993-94	A Country Practice	Claire Bonacci	Episodes: "Burning Bright", parts 1 & 2
000000001996-07-15-00001996-98	City Life	Angela Kosapas
000000001997-01-01-00001997	Amazon High	Karina
000000001997-06-30-00001997	Water Rats	Beth Williams	Episode: "All at Sea"
000000001997-05-12-00001997-98	Hercules: The Legendary Journeys	Cassandra	Episodes: "Hercules on Trial" and "Atlantis"
000000001998-04-28-00001998	Good Guys, Bad Guys	Jill Mayhew	Episode: "Naughty Bits"
000000001999-02-06-00001999	A Twist in the Tale	Morgana	Episode: "Obsession in August"
000000001999-03-19-00001999-2003	Farscape	Aeryn Sun, Chiana, Dr. Batina Fairchild
000000002000-02-15-00002000	Steel Angel Kurumi	Steel Angel Mikhail	Voice role Episode: "Mikhail"
000000002000-03-13-00002000	Xena: Warrior Princess	Amazon #2	Episode: "Lifeblood"
000000002001-02-10-00002001	BeastMaster	Huna
000000002004-10-17-00002004	Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars	Aeryn Sun
000000002005-01-28-00002005-07	Stargate SG-1	Vala Mal Doran	First appearance: "Prometheus Unbound"
000000002007-03-25-00002007	The Dresden Files	Liz	Episode: "The Other Dick"
000000002008-05-16-00002008	Moonlight	The Cleaner	Episode: "Sonata"
000000002009-12-12-00002009	Spike Video Game Awards 2009	Herself	Award/promo announcer
000000002010-05-11-00002010	NCIS	Velvet Road	Episode: "Borderland"
000000002011-01-31-00002011	90210	Guru Sona	Episodes: "It's Getting Hot in Here", "All About a Boy" and "Revenge of the Nerd"
000000002012-11-02-00002012	Haven	Moira	Episodes: "Magic Hour", parts 1 & 2
000000002014-03-10-00002014	Rick and Morty	Ma-Sha	Voice role Episode: "Raising Gazorpazorp"
000000002015-03-16-00002015	The Originals	Dahlia	6 episodes
000000002016-01-01-00002016-present	Containment	Sabine Lommers

List of live-action and voice performances in film

Year	Series	Role	Notes	Source
000000002000-02-18-00002000	Pitch Black	Sharon Montgomery
000000002002-02-22-00002002	Queen of the Damned	Pandora
000000002005-01-01-00002005	Naked in London		Only promo trailer
000000002007-05-27-00002007	Stolen Life	Kieru	Machinima film
000000002008-03-11-00002008	Stargate: The Ark of Truth	Vala Mal Doran
000000002008-07-29-00002008	WarGames: The Dead Code	R.I.P.L.E.Y.
000000002008-07-29-00002008	Stargate: Continuum	Vala Mal Doran, Qetesh
000000002011-03-04-00002011	Rango	Angelique	Voice role
000000002012-02-28-00002012	Justice League: Doom	Cheetah	Voice role
000000002012-05-03-00002012	Strange Frame	Parker C. Boyd	Voice role

List of voice performances in video games

Year	Series	Role	Notes	Source
000000002002-07-30-00002002	Farscape: The Game	Aeryn Sun
000000002003-11-07-00002003	Lords of EverQuest	Lady Briana
000000002005-03-22-00002005	God of War	Artemis
000000002005-11-14-00002005	Neopets: The Darkest Faerie	Fauna
000000002007-07-10-00002007	Project Sylpheed	Narrator
000000002007-10-15-00002007	Crysis	Helena
000000002007-10-23-00002007	Conan	A'kanna
000000002009-10-13-00002009	Uncharted 2: Among Thieves	Chloe Frazer
000000002009-11-03-00002009	Dragon Age: Origins	Morrigan	Also in the Witch Hunt DLC
000000002010-01-26-00002010	Mass Effect 2	Admiral Xen, Matriarch Aethyta, Rachni Envoy
000000002010-09-30-00002010	Final Fantasy XIV	Narrator
000000002011-06-15-00002011	TERA	Fraya
000000002011-09-20-00002011	Gears of War 3	Samantha Byrne	Announced at Comic Con 2010
000000002011-10-04-00002011	Rage	Mel, Sally
000000002011-11-01-00002011	Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception	Chloe Frazer	Revealed in the E3 2011 trailer Nominated - Spike Video Game Award for Best Performance by a Human Female
000000002012-02-07-00002012	Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning	Alyn Shir
000000002012-03-06-00002012	Mass Effect 3	Admiral Xen, Matriarch Aethyta
000000002012-06-26-00002012	The Amazing Spider-Man	Whitney Chang
000000002012-05-15-00002012	Diablo III	Cydaea (Maiden of Lust)	Also in Diablo III: Reaper of Souls
000000002014-09-09-00002014	Destiny	Tess Everis
000000002014-09-30-00002014	Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor	Queen Marwen
000000002014-11-18-00002014	Dragon Age: Inquisition	Morrigan

List of voice performances

Year	Series	Role	Notes	Source
000000002008-01-01-00002008	Swallowing Darkness	Narrator	Audiobook

Awards

• 2009 - The Constellation Awards, Best Female Performance in a 2008 Science Fiction Film, TV Movie, or Mini-Series: Stargate: Continuum
• 2007 - The Constellation Awards, Best Female Performance in a 2006 Science Fiction Television Episode: Stargate SG-1: "Memento Mori"
• 2004 - Saturn Award, Best Actress, Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars

[ Source: Wikipedia ]