Actress Lauren Ambrose plays daughter Claire Fisher on the HBO drama series Six Feet Under. Her film roles include a teen introvert turned popular surfer chick with multiple personality disorder in Psycho Beach Party and a star student of Kevin Kline's in In and Out.

Also a classically trained opera singer, Ambrose appeared on stage last year in the Sam Shepard play Buried Child at London's National Theatre. (This interview originally aired July 6, 2005.)

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