Claudia Black Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

I feel that I'm at my best as a person and that I'm coming home when I walk on to a set, or on to a stage, so if I can perform in one way or another I think I'll be okay.

My boyfriend's idea of a lesson was to take me on a black diamond run in the middle of a hail storm and say, 'Go!' Ski patrol had to escort me to another lift to get me down the mountain. No, that wasn't humiliating, not at all.

One of the difficulties of not knowing for so long whether we were doing a fifth season or not was that we weren't really allowed to go out shopping for work.

People told me, when I was coming through the ranks, that a mark of a great actor is one who deals with the period of unemployment as well as they deal with the period of employment.

The crew are the faces you see every morning and last at night before you go home. I spend more time with those people than I do with my friends and family, so they're forever a part of you and who you become as an actor so I hope I see them again.

There's something very sinister about a woman who is predatory but has an absurd voice working as a disservice to her.

Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.

Trivia

Popular at sci-fi conventions, Black showed her talent at singing and playing the guitar at the Farscape conventions.

She played Pandora in the 2002 movie "Queen of the Damned".

She gave birth to her first child, a boy, in December 2005. Her pregnancy was written into the Stargate SG-1 Season Nine finale "Crusade" and "Camelot".

Before appearing on Stargate SG-1, and subsequently joining the cast, she had never seen a single episode of the series.

Pasta is one of her favourite foods.

For their honeymoon in 2004, she and her husband spent two months in Italy.

She lived in London, England, for several years.

She has a sister.

For her role in Farscape she won the fan voted Roswell awards for Best Actress in 2001 and 2002.

She has starred in two unrelated science fiction series with Ben Browder: Farscape and Stargate SG-1.

She enjoys meeting people and counts travel among her favourite pastimes.

She delayed her 2004 honeymoon to star in the Farscape mini-series: "Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars."

She provided the voice of Artemis in the console game God of War.

In 2000, she was nominated for the Saturn Award's Best Actress category.