# Claudia Christian

Claudia Christian (born Claudia Ann Coghlan, August 10, 1965) is an American actress, known for her roles as Commander Susan Ivanova on Babylon 5, as Captain Maynard on Fox's 9-1-1, and as the voice of Hera on the Netflix series Blood of Zeus. She is also the voice of Lt. Helga Sinclair in Atlantis: The Lost Empire. She is the founder and CEO of the C Three Foundation, a proponent of the medication-based Sinclair Method for treating alcohol dependence.

## Early life

Christian was born in Glendale, California, the only daughter and youngest child of Hildegard (née Christian), who worked as the director of Giorgio Beverly Hills, and James Michael Coghlan. Her mother is from Germany and her father has Irish ancestry. Christian and her three elder brothers were raised in Connecticut. Her eldest brother, Patrick, was killed by a drunk driver while the family lived in Houston, Texas in 1974. The family later moved to California when she was 14. She changed her name by deed poll from Coghlan to Christian and moved to Hollywood to begin her acting career.

## Career

Her first screen appearance was on Dallas. Further work included television guest appearances on Falcon Crest; Riptide; Hunter; Quantum Leap; Matlock; Murder, She Wrote; L.A. Law; and It's Garry Shandling's Show; and as a series regular on Berrenger's.
She also appeared in TV movies Lies of the Twins with Isabella Rossellini, Calendar Girl Murders with Sharon Stone, A Masterpiece of Murder with Bob Hope and Don Ameche, Kaleidoscope with Jaclyn Smith and Coleen Dewhurst, and as Faye Dunaway's daughter in Columbo: It's All in the Game.
Christian's film career launched with Clean and Sober opposite Morgan Freeman and Michael Keaton, Never on Tuesday with Andrew Lauer and Peter Berg, The Hidden with Kyle MacLachlan, 20th Century Fox's The Chase with Charlie Sheen, the Columbia comedy Hexed, and Adam Rifkin's The Dark Backward.
From 1994 to 1998, Christian appeared as Commander Susan Ivanova on Babylon 5. She left the science fiction series when contract negotiations for the fifth and final season broke down. Series creator J. Michael Straczynski maintains that she chose to leave of her own accord, while Christian stated that she wished to return for the final season but was released when she requested a reduction in the number of episodes in which she would appear so she could complete another project. Christian did appear in the series finale, reprised her role in Babylon 5: In the Beginning and Babylon 5: Thirdspace, collaborated with cast members on the album The Be Five, and conceived her own interactive fan convention, Claudia Con UK, which took place in the UK.
Christian posed for a nude pictorial in the October 1999 issue of Playboy.
Following the success of Babylon 5, Christian's guest starred on series including Highlander: The Series, Judd Apatow's Freaks and Geeks, NYPD Blue, Everwood, Nip/Tuck, Grimm, Criminal Minds, Castle, The Mentalist, and NCIS, and voiced the role of Helga in Atlantis: The Lost Empire. In 2004, she returned to Laguna Beach, California, where she attended high school, to star in the American premiere of Michael Weller's play What the Night Is For with Kip Gilman and directed by Richard Stein. She also starred in the British series Starhyke, on Showtime's Look, and in the BBC comedy series Broken News. In addition, Christian played Janine Foster in the Doctor Who audio drama The Reaping and appeared in the films The Garden with Lance Henriksen and Half Past Dead with Steven Seagal.
As of 2020, Christian appears as Captain Elaine Maynard on the Fox series 9-1-1 and as the voice of the goddess Hera in the Netflix series Blood of Zeus. She also plays the title role in the Anne Manx radio series and voices characters in major video games including Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Fallout 4, and Pizza Morgana. Guild Wars 2 as Norn female voice, and recently Xal'atath World of Warcraft.

## Author

Christian is the author of both fiction and non fiction books. Her non fiction works include her initial memoir, My Life with Geeks and Freaks, her updated autobiography Babylon Confidential: A Memoir of Love, Sex, and Addiction, Journeys: Inspirational Stories of Recovery from Alcohol Addiction Using a Breakthrough Scientific Method and a cook book co-authored (with Mark Michel), Snack Hacks. She also wrote the introduction for the second edition of The Cure for Alcoholism: The Medically Proven Way to Eliminate Alcohol Addiction.
Her fictional works are The Misadventures of Miss Emma Bradford (aka Emma Bradford and the Mystery of Queen Tut), Wolf's Empire: Gladiator, and The Original: The Trials of Sara Larkin.
Together with Chris McAuley, Christian has also created Dark Legacies, a science-fiction universe. The first of the multimedia projects is a comic-book thriller, funded on Kickstarter in 2022. The project was later expanded on with an audiobook from BBV Productions.

## Advocate

Christian is an advocate of The Sinclair Method (TSM), a medication-based method for treating alcohol dependence. TSM involves the targeted use of Naltrexone. She credits TSM with saving her life in 2009. To increase awareness of this treatment, she collaborated with Morgan Grant Buchanan to write a book, Babylon Confidential, and made a documentary, One Little Pill, about the science behind this method. In 2013, she founded the 501(c)(3) non-profit organization C Three Foundation to educate medical professionals and people suffering from alcohol dependence about the success of TSM. She has spread the word through her TEDx talk on the subject, podcast appearances, contributions to magazine articles, and her television, newspaper and magazine interviews.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1984 | Calendar Girl Murders | Kara | Television movie |
| 1986 | A Masterpiece of Murder | Julia Forsythe | Television movie |
| 1986 | Houston: The Legend of Texas | Eliza Allen | Also known as Gone to Texas |
| 1987 | The Hidden | Brenda Lee Van Buren | |
| 1988 | Police Story: Monster Manor | Officer Barbara 'Babs' Altoon | |
| 1988 | Clean and Sober | Iris | |
| 1989 | Never on Tuesday | Tuesday | |
| 1989 | Shannon's Deal | Molly Temple | |
| 1989 | Tale of Two Sisters | Liz | |
| 1990 | Danielle Steel's Kaleidoscope | Meagan | Television movie |
| 1990 | Mad About You | Casey | |
| 1990 | Maniac Cop 2 | Officer Susan Riley | |
| 1990 | Think Big | Dr. Irene Marsh | |
| 1990 | A Gnome Named Gnorm | Samantha | |
| 1991 | Lies of the Twins | Felice | |
| 1991 | The Woman Who Sinned | Judy Reinhardt | |
| 1991 | Strays | Claire Lederer | Television movie |
| 1991 | The Dark Backward | Kitty | |
| 1991 | Arena | Quinn | |
| 1993 | Hexed | Hexina | |
| 1993 | Relentless: Mind of a Killer | Leeann Hardy | Television movie |
| 1994 | The Chase | Yvonne Voss | |
| 1997 | Lancelot: Guardian of Time | Katherine Shelley | |
| 1997 | Mercenary II: Thick & Thin | Patricia Van Lier | |
| 1998 | A Wing and a Prayer | Shelley Lowe | |
| 1998 | Babylon 5: In the Beginning | Commander Susan Ivanova | |
| 1998 | Babylon 5: Thirdspace | Commander Susan Ivanova | |
| 1998 | Snide and Prejudice | Renate Müller | |
| 1999 | Haunting of Hell House | Lucy | |
| 1999 | Running Home | Jules Daniels | |
| 1999 | The Substitute 3: Winner Takes All | Andrea 'Andy' | |
| 1999 | Final Voyage | Maxine 'Max' | |
| 2000 | Love & Sex | Woman in gallery | Cameo |
| 2000 | True Rights | Elaine Kilgore | |
| 2001 | Atlantis: The Lost Empire | Helga Sinclair | Voice role |
| 2002 | Half Past Dead | FBI Agent Ellen 'EZ' Williams | |
| 2002 | The Failures | Anna | |
| 2005 | The Garden | Dr. Cairns | |
| 2006 | The Dot Man | Lieutenant Colonel Dunst | |
| 2008 | Serbian Scars | Maggie | Co-producer |
| 2010 | Meteor Apocalypse | Kate Dematti | |
| 2012 | Overnight | Sandy | |
| 2012 | Rise of an Exile | Hannah Benedict | Pre-production |
| 2013 | The Wrong Woman | Officer Ritts | Television film (Lifetime) |
| 2014 | Watercolor Postcards | Cheryl | |
| 2014 | California Scheming | Mom | |
| 2014 | The Writer with No Hands | Herself | |
| 2014 | One Little Pill | Herself and The Narrator | Documentary |
| 2014 | Red | Marlena | |
| 2017 | Chicanery | Abigail Blunt | |
| 2017 | The Dot Man | Lieutenant Colonel Dunst | |
| 2018 | Dirty Dead Con Men | Donna | |
| 2023 | Babylon 5: The Road Home | Commander Susan Ivanova | Voice role; direct-to-video |
| TBA | The Pipeline | Asta Folkart | Post-production |
| TBA | Dreadnought: Invasion Six | Lord Marshall (voice) | Pre-production |

### Television series

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1984 | T.J. Hooker | Betty MacRae | Episode: "The Lipstick Killer" |
| 1984 | Dallas | Peter's friend | Episode: "Some Do...Some Don't" |
| 1984 | Falcon Crest | Kate Mars | Episode: "Tests of Faith" |
| 1984 | Riptide | Marion Gordon | Episode: "Where the Girls Are" |
| 1984 | Hunter | Roxanne Hoffmeyer | Episode: "Love, Hate, and Sporty James" |
| 1984 | Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer | Cassie Conroy | Episodes: "Elegy for a Tramp", "Shots in the Dark" |
| 1985 | The A-Team | Cathy Rogers | Episode: "Trouble Brewing" |
| 1986 | Blacke's Magic | Laurie Blacke | Episodes: "Breathing Room", "Death Goes to the Movies" |
| 1985 | Berrenger's | Melody Hughes | Series regular |
| 1987 | The Highwayman | The Highwayman's liaison, Dawn | Episode: "Terror on the Blacktop" |
| 1987 | Jake and the Fatman | Lieutenant Alexandra 'Alex' Walker | Episode: "Easy to Love" |
| 1987 | It's Garry Shandling's Show | Sylvia | Episode: "Dial L for Laundry" |
| 1989 | Quantum Leap | Allison | Episode: "Play It Again, Seymour" |
| 1990 | Matlock | Mickey Alder | Episode: "The Blackmailer" |
| 1991 | Murder, She Wrote | Bonnie Jenks Hastings | Episode: "Prodigal Father" |
| 1991 | L.A. Law | Susan Convers | Episode: "Speak, Lawyers, for Me" |
| 1991 | Dark Justice | Dana Hollister Harrison | Episode: "To Die For" |
| 1993 | Columbo | Lisa Martin | Feature-length special: "It's All in the Game" |
| 1993 | Space Rangers | Marla Baker | Episode: "Death Before Dishonor" |
| 1994–1997 | Babylon 5 | Commander Susan Ivanova | Main cast, seasons 1-4 |
| 1997 | The Oz Kids | Queen Aquareine | |
| 1997 | Total Security | Cheryl Bankston | Episode: "Pilot" |
| 1997 | Highlander: The Series | Katherine | Episode: "Two of Hearts" |
| 1999 | Freaks and Geeks | Gloria Haverchuck | Recurring role |
| 2000 | Family Law | Carla Sims | Episode: "Are You My Father?" |
| 2001 | Relic Hunter | Inez Carson | Episode: "All Choked Up" |
| 2002 | She Spies | Tanya | Episode: "Spy vs. Spies" |
| 2002 | NYPD Blue | Catherine Lowell | Episode "Better Laid Than Never" |
| 2003 | Everwood | Young Edna | Episode: "My Brother's Keeper" |
| 2004 | Starhyke | Captain Belinda Blowhard | Main cast |
| 2005 | Broken News | Julia Regan | Series regular |
| 2007 | Nip/Tuck | Gwen | Episode: "Dawn Budge II" |
| 2010 | Look: The Series | Stella | Series regular |
| 2011 | Grimm | Mrs. Clark | Episode "Let Your Hair Down" |
| 2013 | Criminal Minds | Agent Gretchen Stern | Episode: "Alchemy" |
| 2014 | Castle | Mrs. Logan | Episode: "Law & Boarder" |
| 2014 | The Mentalist | Greta Fortensky | Episode: "Black Market" |
| 2017 | NCIS | Louise Moreau | Episode: "Willoughby" |
| 2017 | Space Diner Tales | Leila Walker | Episode: "Pilot" |
| 2018–present | 9-1-1 | Captain Elaine Maynard | Recurring role; 17 episodes |
| 2020 | Blood of Zeus | Hera | Series regular |

### Video games

| Year | Title | Role |
| 1995 | Solar Eclipse | Major Delany "Raven" Kelt |
| 2002 | Summoner 2 | Sangaril, Logosarch, Rosalind, Dama Heras |
| 2004 | Shrek 2 | Fairy Godmother |
| 2009 | Pizza Morgana | Abbie Positive |
| 2011 | The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim | Multiple, including Aela the Huntress, Bryling, Legate Rikke, Sorli the Builder, and Wolf-Queen Potema (various other characters) |
| 2012 | Guild Wars 2 | Female Norn PC |
| 2012 | Darksiders II | Muria |
| 2012 | Halo 4 | Additional voices |
| 2014 | Heroes of the Storm | Lady of Thorns |
| 2015 | Starcraft II: Legacy of the Void | Rohana |
| 2015 | Fallout 4 | Desdemona, Mrs. Whitfield, Mistress of Mystery |
| 2016 | Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare | Captain Ferran |
| 2016 | World of Warcraft: Legion | Xal'atath, Blade of the Black Empire |
| 2018 | World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth | (voice) |
| 2018 | Fallout 76 | Shannon Rivers, Miss Annie, Willie Mae |
| 2020 | Legends of Runeterra | Tiana Crownguard |
| 2020 | Fallout 76: Wastelanders | Miss Annie, Mistress of Mystery, Raiders |
| 2024 | World of Warcraft: The War Within | Xal'atath, Blade of the Black Empire |

## Awards and nominations

| Year | Award | Category | Production | Result |
| 1997 | Saturn Award | Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television | Babylon 5 | Nominated |
| 1999 | Saturn Award | Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television | Babylon 5 | Nominated |
| 2013 | Behind the Voice Actors Awards | Best Vocal Ensemble in a Video Game | Darksiders II | Nominated |
| 2016 | Behind the Voice Actors Awards | Best Vocal Ensemble in a Video Game | StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void | Nominated |

## Writing

* "Revenge is a Bitch to Swallow", short-story, published in Forbidden Love Issue 2: Wicked Women
* My Life with Geeks and Freaks, autobiography, published by Yard Dog Press
* Babylon Confidential: A Memoir of Love, Sex, and Addiction, autobiography
* Wolf's Empire: Gladiator, novel, co-written with Morgan Grant Buchanan, 2016
* Dark Legacies, comic book series by Scratch Comics, 2023

## Discography

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