PLAYED BY Lauren Ambrose
VITAL STATS Acidic youngest sibling; aspiring artist.
INSTANT AUTOPSY ''She's an afterthought in the family,'' notes Ambrose. ''She's sort of raised herself. She seems to need boys a lot.... She's always on the verge of being okay.''
UPCOMING DEVELOPMENTS Claire goes to art school and gets busy! ''There's a new love interest, of course,'' says Ambrose. ''She has interesting relationships with some of the people at art school.''
RANDOM CASTING FACT An HBO exec wasn't initially sold on Ambrose after her audition scene in which a crystal-methed Claire learns of her father's death. Recalls Ball, ''I said, 'We'd like you to do it one more time, and can you play the crystal-meth stuff a little bit more?' She went, 'I've never done crystal meth; I don't know what it is!' I said, 'Just be really nervous.' Well, she nailed it.''
CLOSEST BRUSH WITH DEATH ''I was walking through Columbus Circle [in New York City], and an out-of-control van jumped the curb,'' Ambrose says. ''My dad grabbed me by the collar and dragged me in the opposite direction.''
REINCARNATION FANTASY ''We have this alley cat that visits us. I feel a deep simpatico with her, so maybe that's my future.''
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