CLAUDIA COLOMA
On joining Falling Like Stars:
“Falling Like Stars” is the kind of storytelling that has the power to uplift our weary hearts with music, beauty and magic. I love love stories, and I’m happy and honored to be a thread in the tapestry of this lovely story, especially playing such a colorful and shiny character as Bella Strong!”


CLAUDIA COLOMA
(SAG-AFTRA)

Bella (Isabella) Strong

Claudia Coloma is a Los Angeles based, London trained, Chilean-American actress. Born Claudia Susanna Cox in Erie, PA to an American father and a Chilean mother who met through the Peace Corps; she was raised in Valdivia, a city in Southern Chile.

Back in the United States, she received her Bachelor of Arts degree with a Major in Theater and Minors in Art and Music from the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. She then moved to London, where she attended a program at King’s College London in association with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA) and received a Master of Arts degree in Text and Performance Studies. After RADA, she stayed in London to attend a one year intensive acting training at the Drama Studio London.

Claudia has starred as Mary Magdalene in the Emmy Award nominated History Channel TV movie, “Time Machine:  Beyond the Da Vinci Code”, which challenges the history behind Dan Brown’s best -selling novel, “The Da Vinci Code”. Being fully bilingual, Claudia has acted in both English and Spanish language films such as “Detach”, a English language short film that appears as a chapter in the feature film, “Book of Choices” which screened as an official selection of the Delhi Women’s International Film Festival; and “Sin Frontera”, a Spanish language short film, which has won 8 awards and 3 nominations in the festival circuit.

Claudia also trained at The Second City Hollywood in improvisation and stand-up comedy. She performs regularly as a stand-up comedian at Flappers Comedy Club in Burbank and other venues such as Sal’s Comedy Hole, The Second City, and the Ice House Comedy Club in Pasadena.