Claudia Christian: charming Susan Ivanova from the cult series "Babylon 5"

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The sci-fi series "Babylon 5", filmed in the genre of space opera, became a real TV hit of the nineties. Not the last role in this was played by actress Claudia Christian, who embodied the image of a stern but charming officer Susan Ivanova. Claudia began her career back in the distant seventies of the last century, but the audience still remembered her role in the cult series about an intergalactic station.

Dallas

Claudia Christian was born in Glendale in 1965. A bright, beautiful girl, she loved the stage since childhood and took part in all school theater productions. Gradually, Claudia's childhood hobby became her way to earn a living. Already at the age of thirteen, she appeared on television screens throughout the country, lit up in the TV series "Dallas", which was for Americans a kind of "Santa Barbara" of the seventies.

The impetus for development was given, and a beautiful, spectacular girl entered the circle involved in the world of cinema and television, being in a cohort of potential actors.

She graduated from high school in Laguna Beach, inCalifornia, where she began to try her hand at the stage of the local theater.

Proximity to Hollywood, the capital of American show business, had an irresistible, hypnotic effect on the young girl. Claudia goes beyond the cozy home theater, trying her hand at casting movies, TV shows.

First roles

The filmography of Claudia Christian has quite a lot of works, but not many pictures with her participation are known to a wide range of viewers. For a long time, the Longdale native was perceived as a spectacular and seductive woman, but not a particularly striking actress. In this capacity, she was doomed to appear in numerous second-rate B-movies, most of which were forgotten immediately upon release.

Nevertheless, there was no shortage of offers from directors, and Claudia has been actively filming since 1985, when she took part in the filming of the film "The Berrengers", which became for her a kind of pass to the world of Hollywood.

From the subsequent films of Claudia Christian of that period, not much remains in memory. You can recall the role of the nameless victim in the film "The Hidden Enemy", which was released in 1987. In 1990, she embodied the image of a psychologist-cop in the film with the telling title "Maniac Cop 2". Three years later, the directors finally thought of taking full advantage of Claudia's outstanding physical data, offering her the role of a model in the film Bewitched. Kheksina performed by Christian was very convincing, and against her background are real life modelsjust looked shabby.

Babylon 5

Each actor, lost in the total mass of participants in passing films for one weekend, dreams of getting the very role that in an instant will elevate him to the coveted red carpet, make him talk about himself in every family. Claudia Christian got such a chance in 1994 when she was offered to star in the new TV series Babylon 5.

At first glance, it was a banal space opera, but the quality work of all the participants in the filming process turned Babylon 5 into a real sensation.

The basis of the plot was the relationship between representatives of various intelligent races inhabiting the universe. "Babylon-5" itself has become an image of a kind of negotiation platform between humanoids, reptilians, arachnoids and other carriers of the galactic mind.

Claudia Christian got the role of the brave officer Susan Ivanova, which she embodied with her usual brilliance. The Slavic surname of the character, apparently, is explained by the firm conviction of American directors that all girls from Eastern Europe look as luxurious as Claudia.

Return to Earth

"Babylon-5" was a very successful TV project, had consistently high ratings. The series won a whole army of fans who came up with their own storylines, covered the walls of their rooms with posters of their favorite characters, and also dreamed deep inside themselves about meeting Susan Ivanova somewhere on a remote two-seat space shuttle.

The more surprising it wasthe fact that at the end of the fourth season, Claudia Christian, one of the central actresses of the project, unexpectedly left Babylon 5 without agreeing on working conditions in the fifth season. Who knows what caused this, perhaps the really talented actress just got tired of playing the same stereotyped role in a sick project for four years in a row.

Nevertheless, fans of Claudia Christian were able to see her in one of the episodes of the fifth season. This is because this episode was originally intended to air in the fourth season.

Recent works

After participating in "Babylon-5" Claudia moves away from active acting. In 1999, she starred in the film "Replacement 3", after which there comes a rather long break in her career. The next time she pleases the audience with her appearance on the screens in 2002, starring in the film "Neither Alive nor Dead".

In 2004, the actress decided to resume work as a dramatic actress and returned to the theater in Laguna Beach, where she once began. Here she was noted for her participation in the play directed by Mike Weller What the Night Is For. Recently, Claudia occasionally starred in TV series, among which are "Criminal Minds" and the famous "Mentalist".

Claudia Christian's personal life

The range of interests of the eminent actress is not limited to film and TV sets. She showed herself as a writer, singer.

Sometimes a womangave her fans some pretty pleasant surprises. So, in 1999, photos of Claudia Christian appeared on the pages of the Playboy publication, in which the theme of the physical attractiveness of an American woman was maximally revealed.