Claudia's female icons

As Claudia spends most of her time watching movies and TV shows I decided to think about what characters in shows/films I've seen that remind me of Claudia in personality and how I imagine her to look.

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My first character is Lisa Rowe from Girl, Interrupted. Girl, Interrupted came out in 1999 and directed by James Mangold based on the book by Susanna Kaysen which is her own true story. The story is an account of Kaysen's 18 month stay in a female mental institution and account of what happened. Susanna Kaysen's part was played by Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie played Lisa Rowe, a sociopath who befriends Susanna. Lisa is very erratic and is smug about her diagnosis, she doesn't take her medicine and doesn't seem to want to get better. She gains pleasure from making other people unhappy and often taunts fellow patients about their condition and brings them down. She likes to act the villain. Angelina Jolie won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Her personality traits remind me of how I believe Claudia could act when she is in a bad mood.

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In terms of appearance I imagine Claudia to be a relatively normal looking girl in the way she dresses but with a grungy edge. I thought about some characters on TV that I relate to this style and came up with Effy Stonem from Skins and Buffy the Vampire slayer.

I decided to concentrate on Effy as I am more familiar with her character and during the last series she starred in in Skins she suffered with mental illnesses that remind me of symptoms that are similar to some of Claudia's personality traits. Skins is a British drama that first aired in 2007, based in Bristol following the lives of a group of teenagers aged 16-18. It explores complex themes that people experience growing up such as family issues, mental illnesses, sex, sexual orientation, drugs & alcohol, bullying and death and each episode focuses on the story of one specific character. Effy Stonem is a mysterious, troubled girl who all the boy characters fancies and all the girls want to be. No one really understands her and Effy doesn't let many people get to know the real her. She takes a lot of drugs for someone her age and is quite promiscuous, she is a real party girl. In the third series she is the main character and when her parents split up she takes a turn for the worst and goes of the rails, becomes very depressed and stops looking after her appearance. When she falls in love with the guy who cares for her deeply (Freddie) she feels vulnerable as she has never felt this way about someone before. As her depression got worse and worse she became fully psychotic and after trying to commit suicide was hospitalised. Her psychiatrist fell in love with her and tried to make her forget her friends, family and most of all Freddie and whilst Effy is completely unaware, he murders Freddie.

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In appearance Effy is quite casual and grungy but always looks effortlessly cool. Her hair usually looks a bit messy and unkept and her make-up is usually quite basic with a dark eye. I want to give my Claudia this kind of vibe.

Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl,_Interrupted_(film)#Plot
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0172493/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skins_(UK_TV_series)
http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0036824/bio