Claudia Black

Acting · Born 1972-10-11 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Biography

Claudia Lee Black is an Australian actress and voice actress, best known for her portrayals of Aeryn Sun in Farscape, Vala Mal Doran in Stargate SG-1 and Sharon "Shazza" Montgomery in the film Pitch Black. She has had prominent roles in video games, such as Chloe Frazer in Uncharted, Morrigan in Dragon Age, Admiral Daro'Xen and Matriarch Aethyta in Mass Effect and Samantha Byrne in Gears of War 3, Gears of War 4, and Gears of War 5. She also had a recurring role as Dahlia in The Originals and starred as Dr. Sabine Lommers in The CW's Containment. Black was born and raised in a Jewish family in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She studied at the Anglican Kambala School, in Sydney. She has lived in Australia, New Zealand, Spain, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States. Her…

Filmography

• Stargate: Continuum as Vala Mal Doran
• Stargate: The Ark of Truth as Vala Mal Doran
• Justice League: Doom as Cheetah (voice)
• Pitch Black as Shazza
• Time Now as Joan
• Queen of the Damned as Pandora
• Rango as Angelique (voice)
• Strange Frame as Parker C. Boyd (voice)
• Farscape Undressed
• Deus as Karla Grey

TV

• Farscape as Aeryn Sun
• Stargate SG-1 as Vala Mal Doran
• The Nevers as Stripe
• Rick and Morty as Ventriloquiver (voice)
• Roswell, New Mexico as Ann Evans
• NCIS as Velvet Road
• Rick and Morty as Ma-Sha (voice)
• The Originals as Dahlia
• Police Rescue as Julia
• BeastMaster as Huna