- Born
- Birth nameClaudia Lee Black
- Height5′ 8″ (1.73 m)
- Claudia Lee Black was born and raised in Sydney, Australia. Her parents Jules and Judy Black are both Australian Medical Academics Doctors. She has lived in Australia, New Zealand, England and the US. Throughout her career Black has played in many Australian and New Zealand films and guested on such Australian series as Police Rescue (1989) and Water Rats (1996), the American and New Zealand series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1995) and Xena: Warrior Princess (1995), and a leading role in the New Zealand soap opera City Life (1996). Since then she has mostly played in science-fiction and fantastic series. She is probably best known for her roles as Aeryn Sun in the Australian series Farscape (1999) and Vala Mal Doran in the American series Stargate SG-1 (1997), in which she co-starred with Ben Browder.- IMDb mini biography by: Peter Huss
- SpouseJamie Oddie(2004 - 2016) (divorced, 2 children)
- ChildrenOdin BlackViggo Black
- ParentsJules BlackJudy Black
- Her deep, hard voice
- Jet black hair
- Her skill with accents and ability to switch between them flawlessly
- Distinctive long nose
- Plays tough determined women
- Her pregnancy was written into the Stargate SG-1 (1997) Season Nine finale, Crusade (2006) and Camelot (2006).
- In recent years, she has turned to voice acting.
- Plays guitar at Farscape (1999) conventions.
- There has been much debate on the various scifi bulletin boards concerning her actual birth year. She herself has consistently declined to give an answer as to her birth year - when asked about her birth date she simply replies, "October 11."
- Plays British characters so often that many viewers don't know that she is really Australian.
- Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
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