Claire Stansfield

In the 80s Claire was engaged to Simon Le Bon, the lead singer of Duran Duran. The couple owned homes in both Toronto and London.

Claire's mother was a flight attendant, so she got the chance to travel using cheap tickets from Air Canada. Her favorite place that she visited was Australia.

Claire speaks German and spent most of her summers in a town outside of Cologne in Germany with her grandmother Kai. She later named her production company, Kai Productions, after her grandmother.

Claire is working on some projects that she started herself. Chickmate is an online tv series with film images and animation, and Claire's friend and fellow actress Lucy Lawless has done some voice over work for it.

Claire has teamed up with Alex Tydings (Aphrodite) for the Xena convention XXX Cabaret Show. The two actresses act out "subtext" fan fiction, much to the delight of their audiences. They came up with the idea together, but Alex credits Claire with suggesting they use fan fiction as their material.

Growing up taller than most of her peers (6 feet by the time she was 16), Claire's least favorite question is, "How tall are you?" But she has a few words of advice for girls who are tall at a young age: "Stand up straight and wear flip flops."

Claire's influence for her Xena character Alti came from Merlin (TV miniseries, Steve Barron, 1998). She thought Miranda Richardson did such a wonderful job as Mab that she asked Rob Tapert if she could play Alti like Mab, with the eye makeup and the whispery growl, and he said "Yeah!"

As a child, Claire wanted to be a teacher when she grew up. And when asked now if she could it all over again, she says she would not be an actor. She really hopes to get into writing and directing.

When Claire appeared at her first Xena convention she had so much fun that they had to wave at her frantically to get her attention so that they could get her off the stage. Sharon Delaney, the fanclub's manager who was running the convention, told her with a laugh, "We have other guests! Get off!"

While working on Xena, Claire and Lucy Lawless started working and hanging out together as friends, and soon they decided that they felt comfortable stunt fighting together. Their directors would try to have a stunt team come out and Lucy and Claire would say, 'No, no, we got it, we're into it, let's do it!' And later when Lucy became pregnant Claire got to do even more stunt work on the show. The directors wanted to have at least one person in the shot be the real actress while the other person could be a stuntie. So when Lucy wasn't available they used Claire's character Alti as the on-camera character and used a stuntie to play Xena.

Claire handles stress through sleep and yoga.

Claire has created a designer clothing company, C&C California, with friend and fellow actress Cheyann Benedict. Their first product line is a range of high-quality t-shirts and tank tops with a 1970s style.

Claire auditioned for the part of Morrigan on Hercules because she knew that it was going to be a recurring part. So when her agent told her that they wanted her for the role of Alti on Xena she was hesitant, but when her agent assured her that the role was also going to be for a recurring character she said, "Why not?" She ended up appearing in six episodes over the fourth through sixth seasons.

When Claire saw the costume she would be wearing for the Xena episode "When Fates Collide" she told Katherine Fugate (the writer, who is also the niece of Barbara Eden from I Dream of Jeannie), "You put me in a Jeannie outfit!"

Claire Stansfield got to be good friends with fellow Xena alumni Kevin Smith and Danielle Cormack in spite of never being in the same episodes as the other actors. They met at a Xena convention and were instant friends.