Claudia Black

Claudia Lee Black was born and raised in Sydney, Australia. Her parents Jules and Judy Black are both Australian Medical Academics Doctors. She has lived in Australia, New Zealand, England and the US. Throughout her career Black has played in many Australian and New Zealand films and guested on such Australian series as _Police Rescue (1989)_ (qv) and _Water Rats (1996)_ (qv), the American and New Zealand series _Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1995)_ (qv) and _Xena: Warrior Princess (1995)_ (qv), and a leading role in the New Zealand soap opera _City Life (1996)_ (qv). Since then she has mostly played in science-fiction and fantastic series. She is probably best known for her roles as Ayren Sun in the Australian series _Farscape (1999)_ (qv) and Vala Mal Doran in the American series _Stargate SG-1 (1997)_ (qv), in which she co-starred with 'Ben Browder' (qv).::Peter Huss