Claudia Donovan

Claudia Donovan
Claudia Donovan is portrayed by Allison Scagliotti.
First appearance	"Claudia"
Last appearance	"Endless"
Created by	Jane Espenson
Portrayed by	Allison Scagliotti
Information
Nickname(s)	Claude
Occupation	Hacker Inventor Warehouse 13 agent Future Caretaker of Warehouse 13
Family	Joshua Donovan (brother) Claire Donovan (sister)
Significant other(s)	Todd

Claudia Donovan is a fictional character from the US television series, Warehouse 13 (2009–14), portrayed by Allison Scagliotti. A talented computer hacker and inventor, she is inducted as an employee of Warehouse 13 during Season 1, becoming a regular character thereafter, and in the series finale, she became the new caretaker of Warehouse 13. Claudia has an elder brother, Joshua Donovan and an elder sister, Claire Donovan.

Claudia is very intelligent, resourceful, and technologically savvy, but has no college education. At the conclusion of season one, she is known to be 19 years old, though she has her 21st birthday party in season four.

Claudia's parents died when she was very young, and for some years she was raised by her older brother, Joshua. When Josh disappeared, presumed dead, Claudia had to fend for herself with no money until Josh was found.

As revealed in the season 1 episode "Claudia", about twelve years prior to that episode's main timeline, Joshua had met Artie Nielsen while attending college. Posing as a professor, Artie attempted to dissuade Joshua from pursuing a dangerous experiment in teleportation. The experiment went badly wrong, with Josh disappearing in a brilliant flash of light. Believing him dead, Claudia lost the only family she had left. About ten years later, and six months prior to the events of "Claudia", Claudia began to have visions of Joshua. Believing herself to be going insane from grief, she checked herself into a psychiatric care clinic. Eventually she came to realize that Joshua was, in fact, alive and trying to contact her from the immaterial prison of the inter-dimensional limbo that resulted from his experiment. After about four months in the psychiatric ward, Claudia checked herself out and began efforts to rescue her brother.

Blaming Artie for what happened to Joshua, Claudia first hacked the American power grid in order to identify pockets of large, unexplained, energy usage. Doing so, she located Warehouse 13 in the badlands of South Dakota, and hacked into its computer mainframe. Shortly after, in the main timeline of "Claudia", she arrives at the Warehouse and abducts Artie, taking him to the site of her brother's failed experiment. Once there, she forces Artie to help her recreate the conditions that led to Joshua's disappearance. When Artie realizes that Claudia is not insane, he willingly helps in her rescue attempt. They successfully enter the inter-dimensional space where Josh is trapped, completing the instruction engraved on Rheticus' compass in order to bring them all back to the corporeal realm.