who plays claire in lost?
Hayden Panettiere
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 Maggie Grace ( born Margaret Grace Denig ; September 21 , 1983 ) is an American actress , best known for her roles in Lost and the Taken trilogy . Originally from Worthington , Ohio , she dropped out of high school to move to Los Angeles with her mother after her parents ' divorce . While struggling financially , she landed her first role as the title character in the web @-@ based video series Rachel 's Room in 2001 . She went on to earn a Young Artist Award nomination in 2002 with her portrayal of 15 @-@ year @-@ old murder victim Martha Moxley in the television movie Murder in Greenwich . In 2004 , Grace was cast as Shannon Rutherford in the television series Lost , on which she was a main cast member for the first two seasons , winning a Screen Actors Guild Award shared with the ensemble cast . Leaving the series , Grace was keen to work more prominently in film , having starred opposite Tom Welling in The Fog in 2005 . She appeared in Suburban Girl , The Jane Austen Book Club ( both 2007 ) , and opposite Liam Neeson as Kim Mills in Taken in 2008 . She reprised the role in Taken 2 ( 2012 ) and Taken 3 ( 2014 ) . 

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 Dr. Charlotte Staples Lewis is a fictional character on the American Broadcasting Company ( ABC ) television series Lost , played by Rebecca Mader . Charlotte is introduced in the second episode of season four and is a cultural anthropologist on a mission to the island where Oceanic Flight 815 crashed . On the island she is initially held hostage by one of the plane crash survivors , John Locke ( Terry O 'Quinn ) , but is freed when another person from her team switches place with her . She helps prevent poison gas from being released over the island , and develops a relationship with Daniel Faraday ( Jeremy Davies ) . Charlotte dies in Daniel 's arms after the frequent time traveling causes her headaches to worsen into something unexplainable . 

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 Lost was planned to be a multi @-@ cultural show with an international cast . The producers thought it was essential that an Australian was cast for the part of Claire , and the Oceanic 815 was leaving from Sydney . Emilie de Ravin was working in Edmonton , so was unable to go to the auditions , which were being held in Los Angeles . From a video she sent to the producers , they were able to tell that de Ravin had the youth and sweetness required for the role , but also looked as though she had some life experience . Sayid was not in the original draft of the pilot episode , but executive consultant Jeff Pinkner had worked with Naveen Andrews on a short @-@ lived ABC series called The Beast , and was keen to have him on Lost . The producers were surprised that Andrews was interested in the role . When they cast him , all Andrews was told was that Sayid was from Iraq and had been in the army . Yunjin Kim originally auditioned for Kate . At her audition she told the producers that she spoke fluent Korean , having been raised in South Korea , where she had starred in several films . The producers were impressed with Kim 's performance and wrote her the character of Sun , who was planned to be someone who could not speak English , but after examining her relationship with her husband , the audience would learn that she does in fact speak it . Daniel Dae Kim was cast in the role of Jin , Sun 's husband . Dae Kim described his audition as a " really interesting experience " . He found it especially hard as it was his first time acting in Korean , and he had not spoken in it regularly since being in high school , when he would talk to his parents . 

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 In 2004 , De Ravin was cast to portray Claire Littleton on the hit ABC drama Lost . Speaking about the success of Lost , she said : " It 's sort of hard to say . You read something and have a good feeling about it , it sounds great , ties nicely together and then shooting something , editing it , the music , the actors involved , everything sort of plays a huge part . Everyone involved had a great feeling towards it , but you never really know . " She was a series regular for the first four seasons and the sixth and final season . She was not a regular in season five but was under a holding contract with ABC Network . 

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 The character of Claire Redfield did not exist in the early draft scripts for the film and previously Jill Valentine ( who appeared in Resident Evil : Apocalypse played by Sienna Guillory ) would continue the role in Resident Evil : Extinction . Later , producers Paul W. S. Anderson and Jeremy Bolt decided to have a separate game character appear alongside Alice , saying , " We thought , rather than bring Jill back , put her with another game heroine . " 
