Claudia Christian

Acting

Claudia Christian

Born 1965-08-10 · Glendale, California, USA

Claudia Christian is an American actress born on August 10, 1965, in Glendale, California. Her family moved to Connecticut some afterwards. At age five, she was bitten by the acting bug when she played a Native American in a school play. After her family returned to California, she graduated high school at 16, and set out to start her acting career. She worked in a coffee house and then at a clothing store for two years before landing her first acting role on the soap "Dallas" (1978). In her next appearance, she played Kara in the television movie, Calendar Girl Murders (1984) (TV). Her big break came when she landed the part of "Susan Ivanova" on the science-fiction series "Babylon 5" (1994).

Acting credits

Atlantis: The Lost Empire poster
7.0

A young linguist named Milo Thatch joins an intrepid group of explorers to find the mysterious lost continent of Atlantis.

Atlantis: The Lost Empire

2001

The Hidden poster
6.9

When average, law-abiding citizens suddenly turn to a life of hedonistic behavior and violent crime, Detective Tom Beck is tasked with helping young FBI agent Lloyd Gallagher determine the cause.

The Hidden

1987

Babylon 5: The Road Home poster
7.1

Travel across the galaxy with John Sheridan as he unexpectedly finds himself transported through multiple timelines and alternate realities in a quest to find his way back home. Along the way he reunites with some familiar faces, while discovering cosmic new revelations about the history, purpose, and meaning of the Universe.

Babylon 5: The Road Home

2023

The Chase poster
5.8

Jack Hammond is sentenced to life in prison, but manages to escape. To get away from the police he takes a girl as hostage and drives off in her car. The girl happens to be the only daughter of one of the richest men in the state. In a while the car chase is being broadcast live on every TV-channel.

The Chase

1994

Half Past Dead poster
5.2

A man goes undercover in a hi-tech prison to find out information to help prosecute those who killed his wife. While there, he stumbles onto a plot involving a death-row inmate and his $200 million stash of gold.

Half Past Dead

2002

Love & Sex poster
6.2

When her rather explicit copy is rejected, magazine journalist Kate is asked by her editor to come up with an article on loving relationships instead, and to do so by the end of the day. This gets Kate thinking back over her own various experiences, and to wondering if she is in much of a position to write on the subject.

Love & Sex

2000

The Failures poster
4.0

In this dark comedy, a teenage misfit helps a depressed loser try to end his life. But her plan gets complicated when love gets in the way.

The Failures

2004

Maniac Cop 2 poster
5.9

Undead cop Matt Cordell rises from the grave, and is after the criminals who murdered him in prison.

Maniac Cop 2

1990

Babylon 5: In the Beginning poster
7.1

Londo Mollari, the Centauri Emperor, recounts the initial contact between the Humans and Minbari, which resulted in a major incident and subsequent war, for an eager pair of youngsters wanting a story about love and conflict.

Babylon 5: In the Beginning

1998

The Dark Backward poster
5.7

A man pursues stand-up comedy encouraged by his fellow garbage man. Though his friend, who accompanies him on accordion, continues to tell him how great he is, he actually stinks. When the "comedian" grows a third arm out of his back, the friend uses this twist to get him signed up with a sleazy talent agent, and it begins to look like his career is on the move, even though his girlfriend has left him.

The Dark Backward

1991

Babylon 5: Thirdspace poster
6.6

Susan Ivanova discovers a derelict spaceship in hyperspace. They tow it back to Babylon 5, then strange things start happening. People are being telepathically taken over by aliens from another (third)space.

Babylon 5: Thirdspace

1998

Strays poster
6.7

A young married couple and their daughter are terrorized by a pride of ferocious feral felines.

Strays

1991

Clean and Sober poster
6.3

Hotshot real estate salesman Daryl has a bad cocaine habit. After embezzling his company's money, he wakes up next to a girl who overdosed. To hide from the police, he checks into a rehabilitation program guaranteeing anonymity. Under the mentorship of counselor Craig, Daryl accepts that he has a substance abuse problem. As he falls in love with fellow patient Charlie, Daryl begins committing to a newly sober life.

Clean and Sober

1988

The Wrong Woman poster
5.5

Ellen Plainview, a caring, working wife and mother, answers the door and is arrested for attempted murder. It's a nightmare as the evidence pointing to her guilt mounts. As her friends and policeman husband begin to doubt her innocence, even she wonders if she somehow committed the horrific crime without remembering it. A fresh take on Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Wrong Man."

The Wrong Woman

2013

A Gnome Named Gnorm poster
4.7

A young Los Angeles police officer and a mysterious gnome become unlikely partners as they track a killer. When a sting operation goes awry, officer Casey is blamed for the murder of his colleague and Gnorm the gnome is the only witness.

A Gnome Named Gnorm

1991

The Garden poster
4.8

A troubled young boy and his father on a road trip stumble upon a rural farm where the elderly owner has sinister plans for the both of them involving witchcraft and evil.

The Garden

2006

Calendar Girl Murders poster
4.7

During the launch party of a nude calendar, one of the models is thrown to her death by a black gloved killer. When the killer begins to strike again, going in the order of the calendar itself, a hard nosed cop realizes that he needs to solve the mystery, or risk all of the models ending up in the morgue!

Calendar Girl Murders

1984

Arena poster
5.3

On a distant space station far in the future, the best fighters from every planet vie for the championship in an intergalactic fighting competition. After over fifty years of no human contenders, Steve Armstrong emerges having trained all his life for a shot at the title, only to come up against a ruthless extra-terrestrial crime lord who wants him dead.

Arena

1989

Final Voyage poster
4.6

This is the story of a modern day pirate mad man and his crew of eight, searching for fortune on a cruise ship but a small group of passengers fight back.

Final Voyage

1999

Chicanery poster
6.0

Darren Flare is an Emmy Award-winning, slightly dim newscaster, who is about to stumble on the story of the decade: the capture of the FBI's most wanted terrorist, the Imam Abdul Mohammed Zaleeka.

Chicanery

2017

Think Big poster
6.1

Two truckers hired to transport toxic waste across the country get caught up with a teen genius who stows away on their truck.

Think Big

1989

The Substitute 3: Winner Takes All poster
5.2

At a college visit to a war buddy's professor daughter, mercenary Treat Williams finds her brutally beaten. He then poses as a teacher to teach a lesson to the football jocks responsible.

The Substitute 3: Winner Takes All

1999

California Scheming poster
3.3

A teen seductress pulls three other privileged Malibu kids into her devious scheme, and unforeseen consequences force the group to face their own fears and mortality.

California Scheming

2014

Kaleidoscope poster
4.6

A family friend hires gumshoe John Chapman to find and reunite three sisters estranged by fate for 30 years. The circuitous trail leads Chapman from the Big Apple to Beantown to the City of Light. His investigation, however, opens the door to disturbing revelations about a forgotten past.

Kaleidoscope

1990