| Claire Kyle | |
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Gender: |
Female |
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Age: |
Date of birth: June 4, 1987
age: 12 (original age season 1) rapidly aged to 14 after being recast (season 2) 15 (season 3) 16 (season 4) 17 (season 5) |
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Hair Color: |
Season 1 - Dark Brown, Straight Season 2,3,4,5 - Curly Black/Brown |
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Eye Color: |
Brown |
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Marital Status: |
Boyfriend (Tony Stark) |
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Occupation(s): |
Hairdresser (formerly) |
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Family: |
*Michael Kyle (Father)
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Romances: |
Tony Jeffers (current) 1040 EZ (only to amazed buy her Dad) |
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Interests: |
Hairdressing Beauty Dancing Fashion Designing |
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Talent: |
Dancing |
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Status: |
Alive |
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First appearance: |
"Pilot" |
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Last appearance: |
"The 'V' Story" |
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Portrayed By: |
Season 1 - Jazz Raycole Season 2 - Jennifer Nicole Freeman |
Claire Kyle is one of the main characters in My Wife and Kids. She is the first daughter of her family and wears shirts that are too small for her.
Biography[]
Claire is the middle child of Michael and Jay Kyle. She has her mother's hair. Claire has two siblings: her older brother, Junior and her younger sister, Kady. She tends to bicker back and forth with the both of them. Kady and Claire rarely argued in Seasons 1 and 2; however, as Kady grew up, she became the master manipulator towards her sister, realising that she could get Claire to do almost anything with the right words. She is selfish, somewhat smart, dim-witted and very klutzy. She isn't very coordinated. Claire tends to get into trouble quite a lot with her father. However, her mother tends to not see her troubling behavior, and thus it goes unnoticed until her father develops a plan to catch her in one of her lies and then bring them to light for Jay to see. Claire is now an aunt as of "The Baby: Part 2", as Junior has married her sister-in-law Vanessa after getting her pregnant with Junior, Jr.
Physical Appearance[]
Claire is a beautiful African American teenage girl of average height and slim figure. In season 1, she is 12 years old with dark skin, a button nose, full pink lips, dark brown eyes and shoulder length black hair that’s straightened. She wears colorful, comfortable clothes. After season 2, not only is her actress changed but she had rapidly aged to 14 years old. Claire has light skin, dark brown eyes, button upturned nose, full pink lips, and long curly brown hair that reaches below her chest and wears colorful but sometimes provocative clothes. In seasons 2 to 4, her hair is curly, but sometimes straightened. In season 5, her hair is softened into waves and occasionally straightened.
Personality[]
Claire is the middle child of Michael and Jay Kyle. Within the first season, Claire went through the typical growing pains of a pre-teen, such as having her first crush, wanting her first bra and feeling embarrassed or irritated by her parents.
After Jennifer Nicole Freeman took over the role in the series' second season, Claire rapidly aged from 12 to 14, and her personality noticeably changed, eventually behaving in a superficial and vain way. While she is never vicious or intentionally mean, she was depicted rather as an innocent and naive young woman. In the Season 2 episode "Letting Go", Claire begins dating Tony Jeffers, whom, with the exception of a short-lived breakup in the Season 3 episode "Claire's New Boyfriend", Michael never approves of until he suddenly says that he does after talking to Jay, which leads Claire to date another person, as she feels that if her Dad does approve she can't be dating him.
In "Claire's New Boyfriend" he desperately wants Tony back as he sees his daughter dating a boy nicknamed "1040-EZ". He makes a plan to treat "1040-EZ" the same way he treated Tony, which caused Claire to break up with him. Although Claire is quick to notice what he's doing, she eventually breaks up with him after being uncomfortable with his attitude towards her. In "Samba Story", she remains with Tony for the rest of the series.
Trivia[]
- A running gag involving Claire involved her running into things, falling down the stairs or generally being very dim-witted.
- In Season 3, "Here Comes Da Judge", Claire, at the inducing of Tony, becomes a vegetarian, although this is not referenced in future episodes.
- Claire's middle name was revealed to be Marie (after her mother) in the episode "He Said, She Said."
- Claire is an aunt to Junior Jr.
12 (twelve)
14-15 (fourteen to fifteen)
15-16 (fifteen to sixteen)
17-18 (seventeen to eighteen)
18 (eighteen)
