Claudia Black

Claudia Black

Birth name: Claudia Lee Black
Born: October 11, 1972
Age: 51
Birthplace: Sydney, Australia
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Biography

Claudia Lee Black (born 11 October 1972) is an Australian actress and voice actress, known for her portrayals of Aeryn Sun in the science fiction series Farscape and Vala Mal Doran in the science fiction series Stargate SG-1, as well as Sharon "Shazza" Montgomery in the film Pitch Black. She has also had several prominent roles in video games, such as Chloe Frazer in the Uncharted series, the witch Morrigan in Dragon Age: Origins and Dragon Age: Inquisition, and squadmate Samantha Byrne in Gears of War 3. She is currently starring in the miniseries Containment.

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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

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