| Biography 
Claudia  Christian  was  born  on  August  10,  1965  in   Glendale,
  California.  Her family moved to Connecticut some afterwards. At age
  5, Claudia 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 debut acting role  making  a  guest
  appearance  on  the  soap,  "Dallas." Her next acting appearance she
  played Kara in the televison movie,  "The  Calendar  Girl  Murders."
  Claudia  Christian's  big  break  came  when  she landed the part of
  Susan Ivanova  on  the  science  fiction  series  "Babylon  5."  Her
  grandfather  is  a  surgeon and her three older brothers are genetic
  engineers and veterinarians. Claudia  Christian  listens  to  opera,
  painting,  extreme  sports,  playing  piano, collecting antiques and
  hosting marvelous dinner  parties.  Claudia  is  fluent  in  French,
  Italian  and  German  and  enjoys acting in these languages. Claudia
  was voted "sexiest woman in sci-fi" by SFX Magazine in 1998.
 Biography courtesy of the Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com).
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