Claudia got her break into acting thanks to Hannah Phillips, a Birmingham School of Acting playwright and director who spotted Claudia in an amateur drama production at a teen. As Claudia told You, "For some reason, she saw something in me and then put me in every play she made." Later, at 21, Claudia joined Pink Space, an LGBTQ+ theatre company run by Hannah. "I felt like I belonged there," she told the Belfast Telegraph. After putting on a play, Heterophobia, at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art with Pink Space, Claudia decided to move to London and find an agent.