Claudia Udy is an American actress. She was the first actress to play the role of Joy

Joy (novels)

Joy is a series of semi-autobiographical erotic novels by Joy Laurey, who shares the name of the main character in the books. The character is a supermodel whose father is American and mother is French....

for the cinema

Film

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

. She was raised in Montreal

Montreal

Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

, Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

. She is the sister of Helene Udy

Helene Udy

Helene Udy is an American actress and director. She is perhaps best known for her role as Myra Bing on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman....

 and the daughter of urban planner John Udy. Claudia now lives in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...

, California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

 where she is raising five children. She continues her work in film presently as the director of a documentary on children with down syndrome

Down syndrome

Down syndrome, or Down's syndrome, trisomy 21, is a chromosomal condition caused by the presence of all or part of an extra 21st chromosome. It is named after John Langdon Down, the British physician who described the syndrome in 1866. The condition was clinically described earlier in the 19th...

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