Claudia Black
Born: 1972-10-11 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Known For: Acting
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 parents are Australian medical academics Jules and Judy Black. Since 2007, Black has been a prolific video game voice actress. She has gained particular attention for her work with BioWare's Dragon Age and Mass Effect series. Her son Odin Black voiced her Dragon Age character's son in Dragon Age: Inquisition. She also played Chloe Frazer in the Uncharted series. In 2014 she voices the vendor Tess Everis in the game Destiny and again in 2017 for Destiny 2 and she she had a voice-over role in Rick and Morty as Ma-Sha in the episode "Rasing Gazorpaso". In 2016, she appeared in Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare as Engineer Audrey "Mac" MaCallum and n 2008, she narrated the audiobook "Swallowing Darkness" by Laurell K. Hamilton. This page is based on a Wikipedia article written by contributors. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Filmography
2025
- Spartacus: House of Ashur as Cossutia
2024
- Grounded II: Making The Last of Us Part II as Self (uncredited)
2023
- Ahsoka as Klothow
2022
- Deus as Karla Grey
2021
- The Nevers as Stripe
- Time Now as Joan
2019
- Roswell, New Mexico as Ann Evans
2016
- Containment as Dr. Sabine Lommers
2013
- Rick and Morty as Ventriloquiver (voice)
- The Originals as Dahlia
- Necessary Evil: Super-Villains of DC Comics as Self
2012
- Justice League: Doom as Cheetah (voice)
- Strange Frame as Parker C. Boyd (voice)
2011
- Rango as Angelique (voice)
2010
- Haven as Moira
2008
- Stargate: The Ark of Truth as Vala Mal Doran
- WarGames: The Dead Code as R.I.P.L.E.Y. (voice)
- Stargate: Continuum as Vala Mal Doran
2007
- Moonlight as The Cleaner
- Stolen Life as Kieru
2006
2004
- Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars as Aeryn Sun
2003
- NCIS as Velvet Road
2002
- Queen of the Damned as Pandora
2001
2000
- Pitch Black as Shazza
1999
- Farscape as Aeryn Sun
- BeastMaster as Huna
- A Twist in the Tale as Morgana
1997
- Stargate SG-1 as Vala Mal Doran
- Amazon High as Karina
- Good Guys, Bad Guys as Jill Mayhew
1996
- City Life as Angela Kostapas
1995
- Xena: Warrior Princess as Karina
- Hercules: The Legendary Journeys as Cassandra
1991
- Police Rescue as Julia