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 - Gefährlicher Einsatz (1989) and
Water Rats - Die Hafencops (1996), the American and
New Zealand series
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1995)
and
Xena: Die Kriegerprinzessin (1995),
and a leading role in the New Zealand soap opera
City Life (1996). Since then she has mostly played in science-fiction and fantastic
series. She is probably best known for her roles as Aeryn
Sun in the Australian series
Farscape - Verschollen im All (1999) and Vala Mal Doran
in the American series Stargate: Kommando SG-1 (1997), in which she co-starred
with Ben Browder.
