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. Christian is the founder and CEO of the C Three Foundation, a proponent of the medication-based Sinclair Method for treating alcohol dependence. 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 elder brother, Patrick, was killed by a drunk driver while the family lived in Houston, Texas in 1973. 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

Christian's 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 reprised the role of Ivanova in the series finale and the television films Babylon 5: In the Beginning and Babylon 5: Thirdspace. She 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 guest starred on other 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 Helga Sinclair 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. She appeared in Guild Wars 2 as a Norn, and World of Warcraft as Xal'atath.

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 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 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, 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. Christian has spread awareness of TSM through her TEDx talk on the subject, podcast appearances, contributions to magazine articles, and television, newspaper and magazine interviews.

Filmography

Film Year Title Role

1984 Calendar Girl Murders Kara Television film 1986 data-sort-value="Masterpiece of Murder, A" | A Masterpiece of Murder Julia Forsythe Television film 1986 Houston: The Legend of Texas Eliza Allen Also known as Gone to Texas 1987 data-sort-value="Hidden, The" | 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 film 1990 Mad About You Casey 1990 Maniac Cop 2 Officer Susan Riley 1990 Think Big Dr. Irene Marsh 1990 data-sort-value="Gnome Named Gnorm, A" | A Gnome Named Gnorm Samantha 1991 Lies of the Twins Felice 1991 data-sort-value="Woman Who Sinned, The" | The Woman Who Sinned Judy Reinhardt 1991 Strays Claire Lederer Television film 1991 data-sort-value="Dark Backward, The" | The Dark Backward Kitty 1991 Arena Quinn 1993 Hexed Hexina 1993 Relentless: Mind of a Killer Leeann Hardy Television film 1994 data-sort-value="Chase, The" | The Chase Yvonne Voss 1997 Lancelot: Guardian of Time Katherine Shelley 1997 Mercenary II: Thick & Thin Patricia Van Lier 1998 data-sort-value="Wing and a Prayer, A" | 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 data-sort-value="Substitute 3: Winner Takes All, The" | 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 data-sort-value="Failures, The" | The Failures Anna 2005 data-sort-value="Garden, The" | The Garden Dr. Cairns 2006 data-sort-value="Dot Man, The" | The Dot Man Lieutenant Colonel Dunst 2008 Serbian Scars Maggie Co-producer 2010 Meteor Apocalypse Kate Dematti 2012 Strange Frame Yapnetanchor Zev Raamnoamluka 2009 Pizza Morgana Abbie Positive 2010 Shrek Forever After Fairy Godmother Grouped under "Additional Voice Talents" 2011 data-sort-value="Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, The" | 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 My Life with Geeks and Freaks, autobiography, published by Yard Dog Press Babylon Confidential: A Memoir of Love, Sex, and Addiction, autobiography

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)