Christian was born in Glendale, California, the only daughter and youngest child of Hildegard (née Christian), who worked as the director of Giorgio Beverly Hills,[7] 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 eldest brother, Patrick, was killed by a drunk driver while the family lived in Houston, Texas in 1974. The family later moved to California when she was 14.[8] She changed her name by deed poll from Coghlan to Christian and moved to Hollywood to begin her acting career.[9][10]
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,[20] 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.[21] Christian did appear in the series finale, reprised her role in Babylon 5: In the Beginning and Babylon 5: Thirdspace, 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.[22]
Christian posed for a nude pictorial in the October 1999 issue of Playboy.[23][24]
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[32] and voices characters in major video games including Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare,[33]The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Fallout 4, and Pizza Morgana.[34]Guild Wars 2 as Norn female voice, and recently Xal'atath World of Warcraft.
Author
Christian in 2007
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,[35] her updated autobiography Babylon Confidential: A Memoir of Love, Sex, and Addiction,[36]Journeys: Inspirational Stories of Recovery from Alcohol Addiction Using a Breakthrough Scientific Method[37] and a cook book co-authored (with Mark Michel), Snack Hacks.[38][39] She also wrote the introduction for the second edition of The Cure for Alcoholism: The Medically Proven Way to Eliminate Alcohol Addiction.[40]
Her fictional works are The Misadventures of Miss Emma Bradford (aka Emma Bradford and the Mystery of Queen Tut),[41]Wolf's Empire: Gladiator,[42] and The Original: The Trials of Sara Larkin.[43]
Together with Chris McAuley, Christian has also created Dark Legacies, a science-fiction universe.[44] The first of the multimedia projects is a comic-book thriller, funded on Kickstarter in 2022.[45] The project was later expanded on with an audiobook from BBV Productions.
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.[46] To increase awareness of this treatment, she collaborated with Morgan Grant Buchanan to write a book, Babylon Confidential,[36] and made a documentary, One Little Pill, about the science behind this method.[47] In 2013, she founded the 501(c)(3) non-profit organization C Three Foundation[6] to educate medical professionals and people suffering from alcohol dependence about the success of TSM. She has spread the word through her TEDx talk on the subject, podcast appearances, contributions to magazine articles,[48][49] and her television, newspaper and magazine interviews.[50][51]
↑ Christian, Claudia; Buchanan, Morgan Grant (2012). "1. Under the Influence". Babylon Confidential: A Memoir of Love, Sex, and Addiction. BenBella Books. ISBN978-1937856069. It was 1973. I was eight years old...
↑ Christian, Claudia, Buchanan, Morgan Grant. Chapter 8. Death by irony // Babylon Confidential: A Memoir of Love, Sex, and Addiction. BenBella Books, 2012. P. 132–134. ISBN978-1-93785606-9.
↑ "Claudia Con UK" (video). goldmister. August 8, 2011. Archived from the original on December 12, 2021. Retrieved November 7, 2018– via YouTube.
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