Claire Redfield

Look, you have two choices here: kill or be killed, your call!

Claire Redfield is the younger sister of former S.T.A.R.S. and current BSAA member Chris Redfield. Claire is an avid motorcyclist, and a member of Terra Save. She was present in Raccoon City during the t-virus outbreak.

Early life
Claire is the younger sister of Chris Redfield. At the age of 17, Chris joined the US Air Force. At the age of 18, Claire went to a university to study, and also took an interest in motorcycles.

Raccoon City Incident
I never thought any of this stuff my brother taught me would work!



Claire arrived in Raccoon City in search of her brother, but found something much worse. After she is saved from nearly being eaten alive by a virus zombie by Leon S. Kennedy, Claire and Leon hatch a plan to get out of Raccoon City as soon as they can. After being separated by a zombified trucker, Claire and Leon headed towards the police station, from opposite directions, where they hoped to rendezvous. Claire manages to get into the Raccoon City Police Department, where she met an injured police officer, Marvin Branagh, who told her that they lost contact with her brother Chris, and his comrades, Jill; Barry; Brad and Rebecca 10 days ago.

Claire explores the deserted police station and finds Chris' Diary in the S.T.A.R.S. office, telling her that Chris is no longer in Raccoon City, as he went to the Umbrella HQ in Paris and asking Claire to forgive him for not informing her as to where he's going. Claire eventually runs into the corrupt Chief Irons and twelve-year-old Sherry Birkin, the daughter of two important Umbrella researchers, William Birkin and Annette Birkin. Claire encountered Annette on at least one occasion, during which she accused Claire of being a spy for Umbrella.

As Sherry and Claire looked for a way out of the city, they were stalked by the mutated Birkin. Whilst inside the sewers, Sherry and Claire were separated, during which time Sherry was found by Birkin and infected with the G-virus. Upon reuniting, Claire attempted to find a cure for Sherry within Umbrella's underground labs. While in the laboratory, Claire ran into Annette one more time, before William arrives and fatally wounds his former wife.

Before dying, Annette gave Claire the instructions for creating the G-virus antidote. Claire contacts Leon to take Sherry to an escape train before the lab self-destruct sequence activated. She creates the antidote and, when finished, attempts to flee. However, she was thwarted once again by Birkin, forcing her to fight the monster and incapacitate it. Claire then rushed to the train, joined Leon, and successfully administered the vaccine to Sherry. Unfortunately, Birkin, now a gigantic, amorphous blob, attacked the train, thus triggering another self-destruct sequence. Claire, Leon, and Sherry escaped moments before the train exploded, destroying Birkin once and for all. Not long after their escape, Leon urged her to leave them and go search for her brother.

Rockfort Island Incident


I don't know what went on between you two, but you have it all wrong. My brother is not the kind of person you think he is.

Three months after her escape from Raccoon City, Claire infiltrated Umbrella's Paris facility in search of her lost brother, Chris. At some point in her investigation, her presence was detected and a security team was dispatched along with a military chopper to eliminate her. After evading the security force, and having narrowly evaded helicopter gunfire, she was ambushed by the team's remainder, and captured by Rodrigo Juan Raval. She was then taken to Rockfort Island to be imprisoned. Due to her strong will to survive and to find her brother she was able to again find her way through the island once it had been attacked by an unknown enemy. Another viral outbreak happened on the island. During her attempt to escape, Claire ran into Steve Burnside, another prisoner on the island, and the two eventually joined forces. Soon, after finding out that Umbrella was spying on her brother she contacted Leon to tell him and to come get them (as Steve checked her out). During this time, Claire also encountered Alfred Ashford, who insisted that Claire had led enemy forces to the base, and who then released multiple B.O.W's to stop her. Claire also had a run-in with her brother's old rival, Albert Wesker, who decided to leave her as "bait" to get Chris to arrive at the island. As all of this happened, Claire soon found out about Alexia Ashford, and had a supposed run-in with "her", only to be saved by Steve, who then shot "Alexia", revealing that it was none other than Alfred, calling him a "cross-dressing freak". As the two found a cargo plane to escape the island, Alfred then sent out a T-103 Tyrant (model number 078) to deal with the two survivors, and also had the plane's auto-pilot redirected, sending the two survivors directly to Antarctica. Upon arriving at the base, Claire and Steve found that the entire facility had been infected by the tyrant virus. They managed to locate an Australian research base nearby. After having one last showdown with Alfred, she and Steve used a snowmobile to escape the Australian base, but were forced to deal with Nosferatu before leaving. Things seemed fine as the two headed for the base, until a dying Alfred managed to awaken the hibernating Alexia from stasis, who then held them captive.

When Chris finally arrived at the Antarctic facility he managed to rescue Claire, but was separated from her once again by Alexia. To make matters worse, Claire soon found Steve, who had been infected with the t-Veronica virus, thus causing him to mutate. Claire was forced to escape from the monster, only to be nearly killed by a giant tentacle. Steve suddenly came to his senses, and freed Claire, only to be mortally wounded in the process. As he reverted back to his human form, he confessed his love to Claire, and died by her side.

Though emotionally distraught from what happened to Steve, Claire managed to give Chris instructions for initializing a self-destruct sequence, before eventually reuniting with him. After Chris killed the mutated form of Alexia once and for all, he attempted to escape with Claire, only to be interrupted by Wesker.

Once their confrontation was over, Chris and Claire evacuated in a harrier, determined to bring Umbrella down, once and for all.

Harvardville Incident
Bastard! That little girl will probably have nightmares for the rest of her life because of you!



Claire is first seen entering the airport. She arrived in Harvardville Airport to meet a friend who was part of Terra Save as well. Claire's friend, Aunt Chawla, asks Claire to watch over her niece, Rani Chawla, as Aunt wants to bring the limo around front. Claire and Rani introduce themselves and wait for Aunt to come back. As Claire and Rani are waiting, Senator Ron Davis comes on the airport TV and passes a comment which Claire and Frederic find rather pathetic.

Frederic introduced himself and then leaves. Ron, in disguise, and his bodyguards try to leave the airport until Rani spots him out. As Ron pushed past the reporters, he spotted a man standing aound acting like a zombie. Claire takes off the mans mask and he is arrested by the police. The police asked if Claire was involved with the protest and she responded cautiously, knowing the cop would arrest her too. Then the cop thought he spotted another protester so he went to stop him. It turned out that it was a real zombie and he killed the cop. He later killed Ron's bodygurads.

The airport was in chaos and Claire went to go get Rani, who was still in the rest area. She spotted her and ran in her direction until she ran into Curtis Miller, who seemed suspicous. Claire refocused her attention on Rani and was stopped once again when the senator grabbed her arm and begged for help. Moments later a plane crashed through the terminal and Claire threw herself and the senator to the ground to avoid being hit. The airplane door opened and zombies came out brining Claire back to her nightmares in Raccoon City.

Claire, Rani, Ron and others took refuge in the VIP lounge of the airport. Claire sent out a 911 call for rescue, which was received by SRT member, Angela Miller. After calling 911 and waiting for help, a sudden scream followed by gunfire gave Claire the knowledge of other survivors. Equip with an umbrella, Claire made her way into the hallways to find the scream. She eventually came into contact with her old friend, Leon S. Kennedy and SRT members Angela Miller and Greg Glenn. The group headed back to the lounge and tried to think of an escape route. Leon suggested they head through the lobby seeming as if it is the widest area. Ron disagrees until Claire agrees with Leon saying that the zombies are slow and the group can get around them.

Ron lets out his frustration on Claire until Leon informed the senator that she was one of the rare survivors of Raccoon city. The group ran through the lobby with Leon, Angela, and Greg killing the surrounding zombies. As the group reaches the end of the lobby, Greg is bit and tells the group to go on without him. They sheltered themselves up on a large broken peice of debris caused from the plane. The zombies start to surround the group and zombies from the plane managed to get the door down and attack the group. Ron decides to leave without them and knocks Rani off the debris.

Claire here's a scream and notices Rani is being attacked by zombies. Claire, without a weapon, jumps down to protect Rani. Leon goes to help Claire until he is pinned by a zombie. He throws Claire his gun and she kills all of the zombies and her and Rani rejoin the rest of the group. They made it out of the airport alive. As Rani reunites with Aunt, Claire Meets back up with the Senator and Frederic Downing, the man she saw earlier in the airport. As frederic talks about a vaccination, Claire is convinced that it is Terra Saves fault for the outbreak. Leon comforts Claire and tells her that it isn't her fault. At that time, the vaccine trucks blow up and Leon,Claire and Angela investigate. They meet up with Ron and Frederic. Claire tells them that she thinks Curtis Miller might be the terrorist.

Claire heads to WilPharma with Frederick Downing. After hearing a conversation between Frederic and Ron, she learned that the G-virus was being researched there just as Frederic had to go fix the server. As she called Leon, a time bomb was set off causing a shard of glass to embed itself within her leg, severely affecting her mobility. Leon found Claire and helped her to an elevator, which would lead to her escape. Instead of leaving, Claire found the control room and tried to help Leon and Angela escape from Curtis, who had mutated due to a self-injection of the G-virus.

Once Curtis was disposed of, the three survivors meet up outside along with Ron.Claire finds out that Frederic was behind the whole incident at the airport. Leon, Claire and Angela went to arrest Frederic Downing, who had a sample of the G-Virus with him. Angela arrests frederic and the cops come and take over the rest of the situation. The next day, Leon and Claire met up with Angela. They told Angela about Frederic's plans and that her brother, Curtis, was innocent. With the threat of any further outbreaks temporarily subdued, Leon and Claire opt to meet again under more normal circumstances. Leon rushes off to his next mission in a helicopter whilst Claire decides to leave with Rani and Aunt in their limo.

Wardrobe
Claire's original outfit in Resident Evil 2 consisted of a black short sleeved, short legged cycling skinsuit worn under a pink vest with a "Made in Heaven" design (which she gives to Sherry during the course of the game), pink-coloured shorts, brown boots, and black riding gloves. Her alternate outfit in the game consists of a leather jacket and trousers with a "Let Me Live" design on the back and a red bandanna. In the N64 version, this outfit is colored purple and features the Angel Studios logo (the company that designed the N64 port) on the back. Her dark, layered, auburn hair is pulled back into a high ponytail with two free locks parted in the middle, framing the sides of her face.





In Resident Evil - CODE: Veronica, she wears a different red vest (this time with a "Let Me Live" design) over a short black tee-shirt with jeans as her standard outfit. She wears an alternate outfit in the minigame Battle Game which consists of red and black hot pants and tank top with Umbrella's logo on the sides, and white boots. Claire is also shown wearing a third costume consisting of a red skin-tight unitard in the game's unlockable art gallery, but she never appeared in-game in this outfit.

The titles on the back of her jackets (in her original outfits and alternate ones as well) are homages to songs by the band, Queen (One of the games designers was once questioned about this link in an interview and expressed that they were indeed fans of the band).

In Resident Evil: Degeneration, Claire wears a tan, short-sleeved shirt with a red, long-sleeved shirt underneath it, along with khaki pants.

In the Resident Evil 2 portions of Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles, Claire sports an entirely new outfit from her original biker suit. She still has the black, short-legged skinsuit, but it is now covered with denim shorts and a dark red vest featuring a much wider collar, resembling her CODE: Veronica vest. She also now sports Western-style boots as well as a pair of sunglasses hanging around her neck. She also sports a Western-style side bag. Her CODE: Veronica attire seems to be slightly altered in Darkside Chronicles as well. Everything remains the same, but her jeans have holes in them and this time her hair is parted on the left side of her head and pulled down into a low ponytail.

Personality
Throughout the series, Claire showed signs of emotions either concealed or non-existent in most of the characters in the series. Thus, she is often considered as the most emotional character by fans. Claire also develops very close relationships to other characters like Leon, Steve, Sherry, and Rani to name a few. But the closest relationship she has is with her brother Chris, as shown in CODE: Veronica.

However, in Resident Evil: Extinction, her personality seems a lot different than her video game counterpart. She appears as somewhat arrogant, but acts like a leader. One similarity to her video game counterpart is that Claire also takes on a sisterly role to many of the younger survivors (in particular, K-Mart, who is commonly found in her company).

Resident Evil: Extinction


Claire appears in the film continuity, where she is portrayed by Ali Larter.

In the third film of the film trilogy, Claire appears as the leader of a convoy of survivors traveling across the ruins of the United States in the wake of the t-virus pandemic that swept the globe. It is known that during her time leading the convoy, the number of survivors was far greater though as time steadily passed, more fell victim to the undead and chances of hope were seemingly bleak. Claire was among those who actively fought against the enhanced zombies that ambush her convoy in Las Vegas though while she fought valiantly, much of those that were under her care did not survive.

At the end of the film, she takes the survivors and flies to Alaska in an Umbrella helicopter in hopes of a life free of the t-virus after Alice and Carlos penetrate the surface of Umbrella's facility.

Resident Evil: Afterlife


Larter will reprise her role as Claire in Resident Evil: Afterlife. In the movie plot, Claire will be reunited with her brother Chris as both are locked up in a jail. It was revealed that Claire, along with Alice and her brother Chris (who will not "know" Wesker and Umbrella Corp.) will hunt down Wesker and try to end the t-virus. It is unknown if they will have Jill Valentine on their side or not. It was revealed in the second trailer of Afterlife that something bad is going to happen to Claire, which opts Chris to rescue her and fight Wesker. Claire is also shown unconscious in a scene with a device similar to the one Wesker used to control Jill in Resident Evil 5 attached to her chest.

Trivia

 * In Resident Evil 1.5 (the original prototype version of Resident Evil 2), a blonde-haired motorcyclist named Elza Walker was featured as the heroine of the game instead of Claire Redfield. She was unrelated to Chris Redfield and was instead a college student attending Raccoon University and wore a red and white leather suit with the Raccoon University logo (probably a uniform). Otherwise, the character was identical to Claire and the two even shared the same personal data. According to Research on Biohazard 2: Final Edition, Elza's backstory was similar to Claire's, in which she comes to Raccoon in search for a missing person. In Resident Evil 1.5, Elza's supporting characters were Sherry Birkin (like in the released version) and an early version of Robert Kendo (the gun shop owner). The reason for transforming Elza into Claire was done to create a greater tie between the original game and the sequel without reusing an old character.


 * In the Nintendo DS game Viewtiful Joe: Double Trouble there is a picture of one of the enemy foot-soldiers dressed as Claire.


 * Claire, Ingrid Hunnigan, and Jack Krauser are the only characters in the Resident Evil series to maintain the same voice actor/actress (Alyson Court, Salli Saffioti and Jim Ward respectively) throughout all of their voiced appearances in the series. Other recurring characters, like Leon S Kennedy, Ada Wong, Albert Wesker and Jill Valentine have relatively static actors as well, but have been played by a different actor in at least one occasion.


 * It is interesting to note that the game Claire has come in contact with lickers, while the film Claire has not, exactly the opposite of Jill Valentine, who encountered the lickers in the films, but not the games.


 * Claire will wear a red jacket that looks similar to her jacket in Resident Evil Code Veronica, in the film Resident Evil: Afterlife.
 * Claire along with Sheva are the only main female characters to have encountered lickers.
 * CAPCOM had orginally planned not to have any siblings in the series but after a few changes in the storyline for the games, Chris and Claire Redfiled were made into a brother and sister pair.