True Blood Season 3: Who Is Claudine?

This is part 14 in our series of features about the new characters coming to True Blood in season 3. We’ll be taking a look at these new characters using both information from casting calls and from the novels on which the show is based. Beware, spoilers ahead!

Who Is Claudine?

One of our most hotly anticipated characters to make the leap from the Sookie books to the True Blood television series is Claudine. A compelling character in her own right, Claudine is also the catalyst for some incredible storylines that play out over the course of the Sookie Stackhouse novels.

Lara Pulver plays Claudine

Let’s start with the basics: Claudine is a fairy. We first meet her in the fourth Sookie novel, Dead to the World, where she is described as a gorgeous woman, at least six feet tall, with dark hair, pale skin, and large, almond shaped dark eyes.  She has a beautiful smile and Sookie says Claudine’s skin reminds her of the skin of a plum. Although she first tells Sookie that she is in Shreveport simply because of all the supernatural happenings, Sookie later discovers that Claudine is, in fact, her fairy godmother who is working her way up to becoming an angel. A strong, intelligent being, she saves Sookie from danger on multiple occasions, and Sookie becomes quite fond of her.

Claudine is one of triplets: she has a brother, Claude, who owns a strip club; and a sister, Claudette, who is deceased. As Sookie’s fairy lineage is revealed, she learns that the fairy triplets are cousins of hers, a few times removed. Tragically, Claudine is killed in a devastating battle at the end of Dead and Gone, the ninth book, while pregnant with a full-blooded fairy child.

Claudine’s role on True Blood has yet to be fully revealed, of course. We do know that she is a fairy and that she is Sookie’s protector. Based on casting, we expect that she will have pale skin, dark hair, and large, beautiful eyes. However, she will not be 6 feet tall as she is in the books. On the series, Claudine appears to be in her 30s or 40s. We’ll get our first look at her in episode 3.07 when she appears to Sookie in “a golden vision” where she imparts a warning to Sookie.

Lara Pulver has been cast as Claudine in True Blood.

Claudine In Brief

Sex: Female
Species: Fairy
Age: Unknown
Status: Single
Relatives: One of triplets; brother Claude survives; sister Claudette deceased; distant cousin of Sookie & Jason
Occupation: Unknown
Location: Here and there