Claudia Wells
Claudia Wells was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on July 5th, 1966 and is the Movie Actress. At the age of 58, Claudia Wells biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.
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Claudia Grace Wells (born July 5, 1966) is an American actress and businesswoman, best known for her role as Jennifer Parker in the film Back to the Future (1985).
Life and career
Wells was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, but her family migrated to San Francisco when she was seven weeks old. She attended Marin Country Day School and French-American Bilingual School. Wells, her father, a parasitologist, and her sister, Jennifer, all live in San Francisco, but they moved to Los Angeles at the age of 14, shortly after graduating from Beverly Hills High School. Wells has a brother as well.
She started acting in television shows. At the behest of Dean Jones, she became a born-again Christian on the set of Herbie, the Love Bug.
In the 1985 film Back to the Future, Wells portrayed Jennifer Parker, Marty McFly's girlfriend. She could have been in the first film of the wildly popular franchise. She had been cast, but a pilot she had done for ABC had been picked up, and she was contractually bound to leave Back to the Future. Eric Stoltz had been shooting for five weeks as Marty McFly during that time. Melora Hardin had been slated for the role of Jennifer, but she never actually shot any scenes. Stoltz was replaced by Michael J. after the producers halted filming. Fox. Wells' pilot was finished and she had recast as Jennifer, who had never shot a single frame with Stoltz.
Wells co-starred in Stop the Madness, an anti-drug music film funded by the Reagan administration, starring several well-known musicians, actors, and celebrities in that same year (1985). Linda Barrett was portrayed by Phoebe Cates in the 1982 film Babies Having Babies, and the short-lived series Fast Times was a television adaptation of the 1982 film Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Following Fast Times, she did not appear again on film until Still Waters Burn, a 1996 independent film (which was released on DVD February 12, 2008).
Wells put her career on hold for family reasons, and the studio informed her that she will not be able to reprise her Back to the Future role for the two sequels after her mother was diagnosed with cancer. Elisabeth Shue, an actress, was replaced by her.
Wells founded Armani Wells in the early 1990s, which she still manages as of 2015.
Wells returned to acting in 2011 with a small role in Alien Armageddon, an independent science-fiction film.
Wells reprised her role from Back to the Future, 26 years after her last appearance in the series. Jennifer Parker appeared in Back to the Future: The Game. Wells' next project, Room & Board, will be a horror film.