As Claudia you seek change, travel, new opportunities, and new challenges. Your active, restless nature demands action and you dislike system and monotony. As you are versatile and capable, you could do any job well, although you would not like to do menial tasks. Having considerable vision, you could be adept at formulating new, more effective ways of doing things. You could organize the work of others, though in your impatience to see the job done efficiently, you would likely step right in and do it yourself. You could work well in sales and promotion, and would not be afraid to risk a gamble as the name gives you much self-confidence. You do not find contentment in the routine tasks and responsibilities that are associated with home and family or with administrative detail in the business world, so you have to guard against frustration and even moods of depression over your personal responsibilities. The restlessness this name creates could find an outlet in caustic, irritable expression. Also, the intensity of your nature could result in tension in the solar plexus causing stomach trouble and, because you take your responsibilities seriously you could experience much worry.

The five-year-old child made into a vampire in 1794. (In the first draft of IV, Rice describes Claudia as three or four years old.) Louis first comes across the blonde, blue-eyed child as he roams New Orleans asking himself whether he is damned. Since he wants to die, he has denied himself the sustenance of blood; when he sees the child crying beside the corpse of her plagued-infested mother, Louis feels so trapped in his self-condemnation that he drinks from this child, who is his very first human victim in four years. When Lestat sees what Louis has done, he ridicules him. (IV 73-75)

The next night, Lestat locates Claudia at a children's hospital, brings her to the hotel, and urges Louis to drink. Louis drains her nearly to the point of death, but Lestat rescues her and makes her a vampire child so that he can keep Louis with him. That she is made into a vampire on a bed involves significant sexual imagery: she is losing her innocence through the act that involves penetration, domination, and blood. (IV 89-95)

Lestat declares that Claudia is now their daughter, and Louis is so taken with their creation that he remains with her for another sixty-five years. He protects her from Lestat's veiled threats and eventually becomes dependant on her as his companion.

Claudia seeks blood with the demanding hunger of a child, and while she learns refinement from Louis, her killing style more closely resembles Lestat's. She learns to play with her victims, and she develops a taste for families, taking them one at a time. She particularly likes to feed on mothers and daughters. (IV 101)

Lestat and Louis treat Claudia like a doll, despite the fact that her mind matures into that of an intelligent, assertive, and seductive woman. She reads Boethius, Aristotle, and sophisticated poetry, and can play Mozart by ear, yet still they dress her, comb her hair, and buy her pretty things. Claudia is resentful that her developing maturity is not acknowledged. (IV 102, 106)

Eventually Claudia discovers that she was once a mortal child and comes to hate her two "fathers" for making her while she was in such a helpless form. Finding out that Lestat was responsible, she poisons him, then dumps him in the swamps outside New Orleans. When he returns, Claudia and Louis flee, boarding a ship bound for Eastern Europe. (IV 109, 137)

When it becomes clear that Eastern Europe holds no answers to their vampire existence, Claudia plots a course for Paris. There she senses Louis's emotional infidelity as he grows attached to Armand, one of the vampires they encounter there, Claudia demands that Louis make Madeleine the doll maker into a vampire to be a mother-protector for her. Madeleine, Claudia, and Louis live together for a brief time until the vampires in Paris grab them and take them to the Theater of the Vampires for trial. Lestat has arrived, and his accusations against Claudia result in Claudia and Madeleine being locked into an airshaft and burned to death when the sun rises. (IV 306)

Also the image of Claudia haunts Lestat when he is in a  mortal body in The Tale of the Body Thief. At that time Claudia acts as his conscience.