Claire Fisher

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Claire Fisher

Name	Claire Simone Fisher
Age	21
Born	March 13, 1983
Died	February 11, 2085
Place of origin	Los Angeles, California
Profession	College student
Portrayed by	Lauren Ambrose

Claire Fisher is a fictional character on the HBO television series Six Feet Under played by Lauren Ambrose.

[edit] Biography

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Claire Simone Fisher (1983–2085) was born on March 13, 1983 to Nathaniel and Ruth Fisher of Los Angeles. She is their youngest child.

Claire is rebellious, into drugs, photography, and bad relationships. She is the most creative in the family, being inspired by those closest (such as her family, Aunt Sarah, Billy). At one time dating the bitter high school student Gabe, she engaged briefly in a complex relationship with Brenda's brother Billy. While studying art at LAC-Arts College, she slept with a crematory employee, Phil, but he did not want an exclusive relationship. She then became pregnant via fellow student Russell, whom she had dated even though she suspected he was gay; she broke up with him when she discovered he was sleeping with their professor, Olivier. She had an abortion, which led to mixed feelings regarding her decision until she imagined her sister-in-law Lisa in the hereafter, promising to take care of Claire's aborted son. Claire had a casual relationship with a young man named Jimmy; she then became infatuated with a student named Edie, but after flirting with the idea of lesbianism being "easier" and having intimate contact with Edie, Claire realized she would always be heterosexual.

Soon after her art gallery opening, she left art school after being abandoned by her friends and the faux reality of her education. Claire tried again with Billy, but broke up with him for good after finding him difficult to deal with, a complication from him not taking his medication. She subsequently dated Ted Fairwell, a lawyer she met while doing temp work. Initially she felt alienated by his conservative beliefs, but he won her over.

Like most of her family, Claire has visions of dead people, as well as vivid fantasies. However, unlike the other characters, her visions of her father, and later her brother, are mostly positive and encouraging.

[edit] Claire's future and death

In the final episode, she moves to New York City even though she has lost out on the photography job that was the original reason for the move. Claire will have a successful career as a commercial photographer, photojournalist, and educator. Although Claire and Ted part ways when Claire moves to New York, they will reunite and marry following Ruth's death in 2025. Claire will begin teaching photography as a faculty member at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 2018, earning tenure in 2028. Claire eventually outlives her husband and all of her close relatives and dies in 2085, at age 101, blind from cataracts while living in Manhattan.