When she is 4 years old, Carline Claire wants to be a fire fighter. She also wants to be a teacher, an astronaut, a cowgirl, a scientist, a police officer, a stunt-woman, a doctor, a detective, a lawyer. However, she does have a slight challenge - she is shy, very shy, so shy that she freezes up in front of people.
 
At 9 years old, her mother puts her in an acting workshop at the Citadel Theatre School where, among other roles, she gets to play a waitress with a southern accent. Hidden behind this persona, she manages to speak in public. She even gets a few laughs. She thinks to herself, this is great!
 
Carline Claire has just discovered that she can be all the things she wants to be and all at once - she wants to be an actress! And travel the world, and write, and make movies, and perhaps even become a chef in a world-class restaurant.

At the age of 11, she has her first on stage experience at the Festival Théâtre Jeunesse de l'Alberta. She comes home with the festival’s Best Actress award and a trophy that is a mini replica of an Oscar. She starts dreaming…
Having found her voice and some confidence, she tries out acting with big people:  she is cast in l'Unithéâtre”s production of Seins Innocents and in Catalyst Theatre artistic director, Jonathan Christenson's master's project at the University of Alberta.

A year later, she works as a junior reporter on Radio-Canada SRC’s children's television show Clan Destin. She learns a lot about television, even rides a rollercoaster on camera, learns all about the green screen and has a ton of fun.  She thinks to herself, this is great!

At 15, she attends Victoria School of the Arts where she explores radio, dance, improvisation, acting, directing and playwriting. She dips her toe into musical theatre, plays in a Greek tragedy, in Canadian works, in original works. She concludes that this too is really great and that she absolutely wants to be an artist.
 
At 17, she enrols in the Hunter Gates Academy of Physical Theatre and after a very intense year gaining skills in mask work, stage fighting, clowning, improvisation, solo and collective creation, she obtains a certificate in Lecoq style Physical Theatre.  She sees that all of this can be magical!

Back from her travels, Carline Claire is accepted into the Acting for Film and Television Program at the Vancouver Film School. During this intensive 12-month program she studies theatre and acting for the camera and has the opportunity to participate in the 48 HOUR FILM FESTIVAL as well as in an Actor's Lab with director Larry Kent.

Upon her return, she is accepted into the Acting for Film and Television program at the Vancouver Film School. During this intensive 12-month program she studies theatre and acting for the camera and has the opportunity to participate in the 48 HOUR FILM FESTIVAL as well as in an Actor's Lab with director Larry Kent.

Diploma in hand, she continues her acting exploration in a weekly class with Nadine Wright at Act2 Studios.  Cast in Vancouver’s Vagabond Theatre production of Doubt, she  gets a the CTC AWARDS nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting role for her interpretation of Sister James

In 2012, Carline Claire decides to adopt a bohemian artist life style in Paris.  She lives in a garret, discusses art, writes poetry, drinks wine, and smokes cigarettes -on camera only- in bars and cafés. Amidst the ghosts of Sartre, George Sand and company, she reads love poems and discovers the works of classic dramaturges like Feydeau, Molière, de Musset, Lagarce, Koltés and, of course, Victor Hugo.

In the city of lights, Carline Claire also gains on-camera experience in the films Callback, directed by Matthieu Brion; Au Fil du temps directed by Tom Guillaumot-Treppoz, La Production du Lièvre; Du coin de l’oeil, directed by Catherine Derenne, Ithaque Films; Web Story, directed by Emilie Contensou, Taronja Productions; The Forgotten Land, directed by Kellie Guinot; and in a Zorba Group corporate film for Laroche Posay.

 During her Parisian period, Carline Claire vacations in Canada where, in 2015, she plays Alice 2 in Alice et le Monde à l'envers, a play co-produced by Edmonton’s Unithéâtre and Vancouver’s Théâtre de la Seizième. The play tours Alberta and B.C. schools over 2 months.

During her second Canadian holiday as a parisienne, she plays the main character, FEMME, in   her semi-autobiographical work, Paris-Edmonton, written for and performed at the 2016 Edmonton Fringe Festival.

Since August 2017, Carline Claire lives in Canada.