Claire Holt

Claire Holt
Name	Claire Rhiannon Serenity Holt-Joblon
Birthplace	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Birth date	June 11, 1988 (age 36)
Job	Actress
Played	Rebekah Mikaelson ▪ Esther ▪ Silas
Status	Guest Starring Starring Special Guest Starring
Season	The Vampire Diaries: 3 ▪ 4 ▪ 5 The Originals: 1 ▪ 2 ▪ 3 ▪ 4 ▪ 5 Legacies: 4

“	She really just wants to be liked, she wants people to want to be around her and then she puts up the tough act and pretend she don't care. But she does. She's just a girl, you know.	”
	— Claire about Rebekah

Claire Holt (born June 11, 1988) is an Australian actress who portrays the role of Rebekah Mikaelson in The Vampire Diaries and The Originals. Her most notable roles are Samara in Pretty Little Liars, Chastity Meyer in Mean Girls 2 and Emma Gilbert in H2O: Just Add Water.

Personal life

Claire was born in Brisbane, Australia. She graduated from Stuartholme School in Toowong at the end of 2005. She is involved in several sports: swimming, volleyball, water polo, and Tae-Kwon-Do, in which she has a black belt. When she was younger, she was in her school's choir.

Claire got engaged to her longtime boyfriend, Matt Kaplan, on July 14, 2015 and married him in April 2016. Roughly a year later, they divorced on April 27, 2017. Since December 3, 2017, she is engaged to real estate executive Andrew Joblon. Claire announced on March 4, 2018 that the couple had a miscarriage in late February. They later got married on August 18, 2018. On October 8, 2018, she announced that she and her husband were expecting their first child. She revealed that it was a boy on November 19, 2018. Claire gave birth to her first child, James Holt Joblon, on March 28, 2019.

On April 4, 2020 they announced that they are expecting their second child, a girl. On September 12, 2020, she gave birth to their second child, Elle. Whilst attending the Cannes Film Festival on May 20, 2023, Holt announced that she was pregnant with her third child.

Career

In 2006, she won the role of Emma Gilbert in the Network Ten children's television series H2O: Just Add Water. The show has earned a Logie Award and Nickelodeon Australia Kids' Choice Award. While the series was renewed for a third series, she left the show after series two, after signing on for the sequel to the 2007 film The Messengers, titled Messengers 2: The Scarecrow. Filming took place in Sofia, Bulgaria throughout 2008. Starring alongside Norman Reedus and Heather Stephens, the film was released 21 July 2009 straight-to-DVD. In August 2011, she was confirmed to be in the TV series The Vampire Diaries as Rebekah Mikaelson. In addition to television and film roles, she has appeared in advertisements for Dreamworld theme park, Sizzler Restaurant, and Queensland Surf Lifesaving. BuddyTV ranked her #55 on its TV's 100 Sexiest Women of 2011 list.

Trivia

• Following her appearance in the March 11 (of 2014) episode of The Originals, it was announced that Claire would no longer be a series regular on the series, due to her decision to depart from the series in order for her to focus more on her personal life. However, since then she's occasionally appeared as a guest star thoughout the seasons.
• Claire appears in 37 episodes on both The Vampire Diaries and The Originals.
• Claire Holt worked on Pretty Little Liars, she plays a character called Samara Cook, which was the show Torrey DeVitto, who plays Meredith, starred in. Bianca Lawson (Emily Bennett), Sterling Sulieman (Harper), Nathaniel Buzolic (Kol Mikaelson) and Rebecca Breeds (Aurora de Martel) played characters in that show, too.
• Claire Holt and Phoebe Tonkin are real life best friends and portrayed mermaids on a TV show together back in 2006 that was called H2O: Just Add Water.
• Claire was cast in TVD after she auditioned for the now-ended drama The Secret Circle. Ironically, the show (which was produced by Kevin Williamson, who also worked on The Vampire Diaries), went on to star Claire's friend and eventual TVD castmate Phoebe Tonkin.
• Her character Rebekah's nemesis is named Elena Gilbert, but ironically on her previous show, H2O: Just Add Water, her character's name was Emma Gilbert.
• Interesting to note, Phoebe Tonkin's character on The Secret Circle is a witch while Rebekah could possibly have been one, too, before she was turned into a vampire, since her mother was a witch.
• She is very good in sports, and is a black belt in Tae Kwon Do.
• Claire Holt is a proud supporter of her country's rugby team, the Qantas Wallabies, but has not publicly spoken of her favorite player.
• Both Claire and Phoebe made their debuts on The Vampire Diaries in the third episode of a season, Claire in The End of the Affair in the third season, and Phoebe in The Rager of the fourth season. From then on, they both played recurring characters until being cast as regulars on The Originals.
• Claire Holt previously worked with Maiara Walsh, who portrayed Sarah, on Mean Girls 2.
• Claire admitted that when Phoebe told her she was coming to Atlanta, she had never shrieked so loud in her life.
• Claire Holt's doppelgänger is Gracie Dzienny, who is on a Nick TV Show just as Claire was when her career started.
• She is 5 feet, 6½ inches in height.
• She enjoys singing, and was once part of her school choir.
• Claire Holt also enjoys playing the guitar and the piano.

Filmography

Year	Title	Type	Role
2021	Legacies	TV Series	Rebekah Mikaelson
2019	The Divorce Party	Movie	Susan
2013-2018	The Originals	TV Series	Rebekah Mikaelson
2017	Doomsday	TV Movie	Kayla Greene
2017	The Divorce Party	Movie	Susan
2017	Dustin Lynch: Small Town Boy	Video Short	Girl
2017	47 Meters Down	Movie	Kate
2015-2016	Aquarius	TV Series	Charmain Tully
2011-2014	The Vampire Diaries	TV Series	Rebekah Mikaelson
2012	Blue Like Jazz	Movie	Penny
2011	Pretty Little Liars	TV Series	Samara Cook
2011	Mean Girls 2	TV Movie	Chastity Meyer
2009	Messengers 2: The Scarecrow	Video	Lindsey Rollins
2006-2009	H2O: Just Add Water	TV Series	Emma Gilbert

External links

• IMDB
• Twitter
• Instagram
• Claire Holt at the Claire Holt Wiki