Claire Joblon known professionally as Claire Holt (born 11 June 1988) is an Australian actress. She portrayed Samara Cook on the ABC Family/Freeform series, Pretty Little Liars.
Claire is also known for her role on The Vampire Diaries and its spin-off The Originals as the Rebekah Mikaelson.
Acting Career[]
In 2006, Holt played the role of Emma Gilbert in H2O: Just Add Water. The show earned a Logie Award and Nickelodeon Australia Kids' Choice Award. While the series was renewed for a third series, Holt left the show after signing on for the sequel to the 2007 film The Messengers, titled Messengers 2: The Scarecrow. Filming took place in Sofia throughout 2008. Starring alongside Norman Reedus and Heather Stephens, the film was released 21 July 2009 straight-to-DVD.
In addition to television and film roles, Holt has appeared in advertisements for Dreamworld, Sizzlers and Queensland Lifesaving. Holt is also in Mean Girls 2.
Claire was regularly seen playing Rebekah on The Vampire Diaries. She was a regular in Season 4 to Season 5. Her character, Rebekah Mikaelson, and the Mikaelson family was such a hit, the starlet and her on-screen family were given a spin-off show, The Originals. She left the show at the end of Season 1 and had a special guest role in the series from then on. She also reprised the role in Legacies for a few episodes in its last season.
Personal Life[]
Holt graduated from Stuartholme School in Toowong at the end of 2005. She is involved in several sports: swimming, volleyball, water polo player, and Tae-Kwon-Do, in which she has a black belt. When she was younger, she was in the school choir.
Holt became engaged to longtime boyfriend Matt Kaplan in July 2015. The two were married in April of 2017. However, they got divorced a year later due to irreconcilable differences.
In December, just over seven months later, Claire announced her engagement to Andrew Joblon, a real estate executive in December of 2017.
In March of 2018, she announced that she had suffered a miscarriage and had to have an emergency Dilation and Curettage procedure while pregnant with her and Andrew's first child. Through her miscarriage, she was able to raise awareness for miscarriages and infant deaths and became a member of many awareness groups.
On August 8, 2018, Claire and Andrew were married in a California ceremony, where their dog Teddy Holt-Joblon attended.
Months later in October of 2018, she announced that she was once again pregnant, with a healthy baby. The gender reveal party was on November 19, 2018, where she and her husband learned that they were having a boy.
In 2020 she and her husband had a daughter.
Filmography[]
| class="wikitable" | Year | Title | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006-2007 | H2O: Just Add Water | Emma Gilbert | |
| 2009 | Messengers 2: The Scarecrow | Lindsay Rollins | |
| 2011 | Mean Girls 2 | Chasity Meyer | |
| 2011 | Pretty Little Liars | Samara Cook | |
| 2011-2013 | The Vampire Diaries | Rebekah Mikaelson | |
| 2012 | Blue Like Jazz | Penny | |
| 2013-2018 | The Originals | Rebekah Mikaelson | |
| 2015 | Aquarius | Chairman Tully |
Gallery[]
External links[]
- Claire Holt at the Internet Movie Database.