Claire Forlani

Claire Forlani is an English actress, born in Twickenham, London, in December 1971 to an English mother and an Italian father who worked as a music manager. She trained at the Arts Educational School in London before moving with her family to San Francisco in 1993 to widen her casting chances in Hollywood. She became known in the mid-1990s for the comedy Mallrats and the Jean-Michel Basquiat biopic Basquiat, and reached a wide audience in 1998 as the female lead of the fantasy romance Meet Joe Black beside Anthony Hopkins and Brad Pitt. Later screen work includes Mystery Men, Boys and Girls, Antitrust, The Medallion and Five Feet Apart, along with television roles in Camelot, CSI: NY, NCIS: Los Angeles and Hawaii Five-0. Her entry belongs in the atlas as a working screen performer of film and television from the 1990s onward.