Claudia Blaisdel Carrington

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Claudia Blaisdel Carrington
Dynasty character
Lauren Colby

Claudia Blaisdel Carrington is a fictional character from the

Matthew Blaisdel (Bo Hopkins). She later becomes entangled in the intrigues surrounding the Carrington family, and is married for a time to Steven Carrington (Jack Coleman), and later his brother Adam (Gordon Thomson
). Bellwood left Dynasty at the end of the sixth season in 1986.

Brianna Brown portrayed Claudia in The CW reboot Dynasty from 2017 to 2022.

Original series

Appearances

Pamela Bellwood began playing Claudia Blaisdel in the Dynasty premiere episode, "Oil", on January 12, 1981. The character was written out after the October 20, 1982, third season episode "

The Note
" and remained until the end of the sixth season.

Rather than incorporate Bellwood's pregnancy during the 1985–86 season into the character's storyline, her appearances were filmed in such a way as to conceal her condition.

The Choice (a.k.a.) The Vendetta
" on May 21, 1986.

Storylines

Season 1

As Dynasty begins in 1981,

The Testimony."[5]

Season 2

When Claudia wakes in the hospital in the season two premiere "

Enter Alexis
," she learns that Matthew has taken Lindsay and left the country. She tries to kill herself with sleeping pills but is rescued by
The Cliff," and no one seems to notice that Claudia is not quite herself when she reports seeing a "foreign-looking man with a dark beard" on the grounds around the time the baby had disappeared.[6]

Season 3

Claudia herself disappears from the mansion in the third season episode "

The Dinner."[7]

Season 4

A recovered Claudia is released in the October 19, 1983 fourth season episode "

Morgan Hess, a private investigator with ties to his ex-wife (and Steven's mother) Alexis Colby
. Hess, however, is working for Sammy Jo, who has decided to fight for custody of Danny.

Season 5

Claudia and Steven's marriage is strained when she suspects that Steven is having an affair with a male co-worker,

Prince Michael of Moldavia
, which she attends despite the conflicts with Blake and Steven. When terrorists attack the wedding in a spray of gunfire, Luke shields Claudia and pushes her to the ground.

Season 6

Claudia survives the terrorist attack (although Luke does not) and returns to Denver, where she and Adam are married. Ironically, Luke's death helps to repair her damaged relationship with Steven and they become friends. In "

La Mirage. While obsessing about the Carringtons who have lied to and betrayed her, she accidentally sets her room on fire. The blaze consumes the entire hotel, putting several Carrington lives in danger.[8]

Season 7

A devastated Adam reports to Blake in the seventh season premiere "

Jackie Deveraux
, injured in the fire, remembers seeing Claudia with flames behind her, proving that the blaze started in Claudia's room. The charges against Blake are dropped.

Reboot

Claudia Blaisdel
Dynasty character
Matthew Blaisdel
ChildrenMatthew Blaisdel, Jr.

A pilot for a Dynasty reboot for The CW was announced in September 2016,[9][10] and Brianna Brown was cast as Claudia in March 2017.[11] The show received a series order in May 2017,[12][13] with Brown scheduled to recur in the role.[14] The new series premiered on October 11, 2017.[15]

Characterization

Executive producer Sallie Patrick said of reimagining the series:

One big decision we had to make when rebooting Dynasty was what to do with Matthew Blaisdel ... Matthew was Cristal's on-again-off-again lover, and while we loved that part of Cristal's backstory and loved Matthew's crazy wife, Claudia, he didn't bring that much to the original series other than business stories, and the Shapiros encouraged us to focus more on family than business. So, when I was watching the original Dynasty pilot, there's this oil rigging accident Blake sets up in order to tank the price so he can swoop in and buy it out from under his competitor. The realization of this causes

Walter Lankershim (Willy in our version) to crash the Carrington wedding with a gun. In our version, it made dramatic (and soapy) sense to have Matthew injured in the accident, sending his wife, Claudia, to the Carringtons' doorstep to give Cristal the news that her new husband may have killed her ex-lover. And that accusation—and the mystery surrounding it—is what launches us into series.[16]

The mystery is resolved by the seventh episode, "

A Taste of Your Own Medicine", and Claudia is sent to a sanitarium.[17] Delia Harrington of Den of Geek called the story "the cleanest way to wrap up Matthew's murder, but also like a bit of a misuse of someone who could have caused more thorny problems for the Carringtons."[18] She noted, "Because this is a soap, Claudia is actually evil, rather than a good person the Carringtons screwed over. Purely good characters never last long on soaps, but making Claudia the killer absolves the Carringtons of everything and sends Claudia packing—at least for a little while."[18] Harrington added, "I'm sure we haven't seen the last of Claudia—a sanitarium feels like the perfect place to store a character until a season finale".[18]
Patrick said:

She's gone off the canvas for a little while, but a character in an institution with a baby is certainly coming back. Claudia one of my favorite characters from the original show, so it just made sense to arc the story out this way. We have a few more big characters we're introducing, including Alexis, so we'll see Claudia again when she comes back to stir the pot after Alexis is settled in.[17]

Claudia returns for the last two episodes of the first season, and recurs in season two. She returns for a cameo in the one hundredth episode in the fifth season.

Storylines

Season one

In the premiere episode "

Private as a Circus
", Claudia sees a sex tape of Cristal and Matthew which has been leaked online, and the Carringtons are cleared of wrongdoing in Matthew's death by Willy's suicide note.

After Claudia confronts her in public in "

Aaron Stansfield
's help, Blake sends Claudia to a sanitarium rather than prison.

Blake's daughter

Alexis Carrington's lover who has been pretending to be Blake and Alexis' long-lost firstborn, Adam Carrington
.

Season two

Claudia reappears in "

Cristal Jennings try to coax her away from the edge. Claudia admits to killing Blake's late wife Cristal, and then trips and accidentally tosses the baby off the building. It is only a doll, and Kirby Anders
discovers that Manuel the nanny actually kidnapped the baby. After Little Blake/Matthew is recovered, Claudia is arrested for murder, and Sam decides that the baby should be raised by his grandparents, the Blaisdels.

Season five

When an old enemy appears to be targeting Blake, Sam visits Claudia in "

Vicious Vendetta". On parole and working with inmates as a corrections counselor, she denies any involvement, but when Sam leaves she calls someone to report that all the Carringtons will be in the same place for Alexis's wedding to Dex Dexter
. Blake, Cristal and Sam are rattled when Claudia appears at the event, but she only has good wishes and an innocuous gift for Alexis.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Pamela Bellwood's son, Kerry Wheeler, was born on December 6, 1985

References

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  5. ^ "Dynasty Episodes Guide: Season One". Shoulderpads.net. Archived from the original on January 8, 2009. Retrieved January 13, 2009.
  6. ^ "Dynasty Episodes Guide: Season Two". Shoulderpads.net. Archived from the original on January 26, 2009. Retrieved January 13, 2009.
  7. ^ "Dynasty Episodes Guide: Season Three". Shoulderpads.net. Archived from the original on January 26, 2009. Retrieved January 13, 2009.
  8. ^ "The Choice" features Pamela Bellwood's final appearance as Claudia.
  9. ^ Goldberg, Lesley; O'Connell, Michael (September 30, 2016). "Dynasty Reboot in the Works at The CW". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on October 1, 2016. Retrieved October 6, 2016.
  10. ^ Andreeva, Nellie (September 30, 2016). "Dynasty Reboot Set At the CW With Josh Schwartz & Stephanie Savage". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on October 1, 2016. Retrieved October 2, 2016.
  11. ^ Mitovich, Matt Webb (March 22, 2017). "The CW's Dynasty Pilot: Devious Maids' Brianna Brown Guest-Stars as Claudia". TVLine. Archived from the original on May 7, 2017. Retrieved May 11, 2017.
  12. ^ Holloway, Daniel (May 10, 2017). "Dynasty Reboot, Military Drama Valor Land Series Orders at CW". Variety. Archived from the original on May 11, 2017. Retrieved May 11, 2017.
  13. ^ Andreeva, Nellie (May 10, 2017). "Dynasty Reboot Picked Up to Series at the CW". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on May 11, 2017. Retrieved May 10, 2017.
  14. ^ Petski, Denise (August 7, 2017). "Dynasty: Brianna Brown Set to Recur in The CW Reboot". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on November 14, 2017. Retrieved November 1, 2017.
  15. ^ Andreeva, Nellie (June 8, 2017). "The CW Sets Fall 2017 Premiere Dates for Dynasty & Valor and Returning Series". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on June 11, 2017. Retrieved June 8, 2017.
  16. ^ Patrick, Sallie (October 11, 2017). "Dynasty showrunner reveals the Alexis Carrington cameo you might've missed". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on October 12, 2017. Retrieved November 8, 2017.
  17. ^ a b Swift, Andy (November 29, 2017). "Dynasty Boss Breaks Down Claudia's Reveal, the Show's New Direction: 'We're Cranking Up the Crazy'". TVLine. Archived from the original on November 30, 2017. Retrieved December 2, 2017.
  18. ^ a b c Harrington, Delia (November 29, 2017). "Dynasty Episode 7 Review: 'Taste of Your Own Medicine'". Den of Geek. Archived from the original on November 30, 2017. Retrieved November 30, 2017.

See also

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