Biographie
Claudia Coloma is a Los Angeles based, London trained, Chilean-American actress. Born Claudia Susanna Cox in Erie, PA to an American father and a Chilean mother who met through the Peace Corps; she was raised in Valdivia, a city in Southern Chile.
Chile's strong theater tradition, which endured despite suppression by Pinochet's military regime (1973-1990), inspired Claudia from an early age (4 or 5 years old or as long as she can remember) to act in impromptu neighborhood performances and school plays, and to birth in her the goal of one day becoming a professional actress.
Back in the United States, she received her Bachelor of Arts degree with a Theater Major and Art and Music Minors from the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. She then moved to London, where she received a Master of Arts degree in Text and Performance Studies from King's College London, in association with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. She stayed to do a one year intensive acting training at the Drama Studio London.
In Los Angeles, she has starred as Mary Magdalene in the Emmy Award nominated History Channel TV movie, "Time Machine: Beyond the Da Vinci Code", which challenges the history behind Dan Brown's best -selling novel, "The Da Vinci Code".
She has also starred in "Detach", an official selection for the Vegas CineFest International Film Festival in 2012, as a victim of child abuse who makes a desperate choice to cope with the trauma. This short film also appears as a chapter in the feature film, "Book of Choices", a psychological drama about living through the consequences of life's choices, which will screen as an official selection of the Delhi Women's International Film Festival in October, 2016.
Being fully bilingual in English and Spanish, Claudia has also acted in Spanish language films such as "Sin Frontera", a short film about love overcoming a broken immigration system, which has won 8 awards and 3 nominations in the festival circuit, such as the Grand Jury and Audience Award at the Awareness Film Festival (2015), the Golden Honu Award at the Big Island Film Festival (2015), and the Audience Award at the Napa Valley Film Festival.
Most recently, Claudia has trained at the The Second City Hollywood, and performs improv and stand-up regularly in the Los Angeles area in private and public venues, and at comedy clubs such as Flappers Comedy Club in Burbank and The Hollywood Comedy. She also produced a monthly covid-safe social distanced in person stand-up show in East L.A. in the fall of 2020.
