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Claire Dearing is a fictional character in the Jurassic Park franchise. She is introduced in the fourth film Jurassic World (2015), which is also the first installment in the Jurassic World trilogy. Colin Trevorrow directed and co-wrote the film, casting Bryce Dallas Howard as Claire. She is one of the three main protagonists in the Jurassic World trilogy, along with her love interest Owen Grady, portrayed by Chris Pratt, and her adoptive daughter, Maisie Lockwood (portrayed by Isabella Sermon), who made her debut in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. In the first film, she is the operations manager of Jurassic World, a dinosaur theme park located on Isla Nublar. Howard reprised the role for the film's sequels. In Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018), Claire is the founder and leader of the Dinosaur Protection Group (DPG), an organization dedicated to saving the Isla Nublar dinosaurs from a volcanic eruption. Claire and Owen have broken off their relationship, but reconcile after she recruits him to join the rescue mission. They also adopt Maisie Lockwood, the cloned granddaughter of Benjamin Lockwood. In Jurassic World Dominion (2022), Claire and Owen remain a couple and are raising Maisie in seclusion to protect her from genetic companies eager to study her. When Maisie is kidnapped by Biosyn, Claire and Owen embark on a rescue mission. Claire Dearing is among Howard's most popular roles. The character received a mixed to positive reception from critics. Howard's overall performance has been well-received, and some consider Claire to be one of the best Jurassic Park characters. Fictional background Jurassic World In the first film, Claire is the park operations manager at the dinosaur theme-park Jurassic World, located on the island of Isla Nublar. She is a workaholic and barely has time for her visiting nephews, Zach and Gray Mitchell. Claire's sister Karen urges her to have children some day, insisting it is worth it. Claire had a date with the park's Velociraptor researcher Owen Grady before the events of the film, but they did not pursue a relationship due to their conflicting personalities and lifestyles. To increase park attendance, Jurassic World has created a genetically modified hybrid dinosaur, the Indominus rex. Claire is initially dismissive of Owen's warnings regarding the Indominus. Later, despite Owen's objections, Claire accompanies him to search for the Indominus and her nephews, who went on their own to explore the park. While Owen comforts a dying Apatosaurus that had been attacked by the Indominus, Claire emotionally bonds with it, altering her view of the park's dinosaurs as "assets". During a pterosaur breakout, she rescues Owen from a Dimorphodon attack. They share a kiss, which is cut short by Claire's reunion with Zach and Gray. Claire later lures the park's Tyrannosaurus into a fight with the Indominus, which is eventually killed in battle. Claire reunites with Karen and decides to be with Owen after seeing her sister with her family. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom In Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Claire and Owen have ended their relationship and she is leading the Dinosaur Protection Group (DPG), an organization she founded that is dedicated to saving the Isla Nublar dinosaurs from a volcanic eruption. To complete this task, she partners with Benjamin Lockwood, who helped to create an earlier dinosaur attraction known as Jurassic Park. Claire convinces Owen to join the rescue mission by reminding him that Blue, a Velociraptor he raised, is still on the island. Claire and her team later discover that Lockwood's aide, Eli Mills, is illegally auctioning the dinosaurs, and they work to stop him from shipping a new hybrid prototype, the Indoraptor. Claire and Owen also meet Maisie Lockwood, the orphaned granddaughter of Benjamin Lockwood, learning later that she is a genetic clone of his deceased daughter. When the Indoraptor escapes, it injures Claire's leg and pursues Maisie. Despite her injury, Claire tells Owen to leave her and protect Maisie from the Indoraptor, kissing him before he departs. Later, she aids Owen and Blue in killing the Indoraptor. Claire and Owen reconcile their relationship and become adoptive parents to Maisie following the death of Benjamin Lockwood. Jurassic World Dominion In Jurassic World Dominion, four years have passed since Fallen Kingdom. Claire lives in the Sierra Nevada with Owen and 14-year-old Maisie, and still works to protect dinosaurs. Maisie has grown frustrated living in seclusion, which is done to protect her from genetic researchers, prompting Owen and Claire to decide whether Maisie should return to society in order for her to have a life regardless of the risks involved. When Maisie is kidnapped on behalf of Biosyn, Claire and Owen set out to rescue her. Their search takes them to Malta, where Claire confronts Soyona Santos, a woman associated with a dinosaur black market. Claire engages in a physical fight with Santos before interrogating her, and learns that Maisie has been taken to Biosyn's headquarters in Italy. Santos unleashes her pack of Atrociraptors on Claire, although she survives with help from pilot Kayla Watts, who subsequently flies Owen and Claire to Biosyn. The couple are separated after the plane is brought down by pterosaurs. During their separation, Claire has encounters with a Therizinosaurus and a Dilophosaurus. Owen and Kayla eventually find her, and the couple are later reunited with Maisie. In addition, the family allied with Alan Grant, Ellie Sattler, Ian Malcolm, and Ramsay Cole on escaping Biosyn. Afterwards, Claire and Owen bring Maisie back home, where they settle into life together. Production background Jurassic World was directed by Colin Trevorrow, who co-wrote the final script with Derek Connolly. In an earlier script by Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver, the character was named Whitney and she had a smaller part compared to Claire. Whitney would serve in an adversarial role, opposing the film's raptor tamer. Trevorrow said that Whitney was the one character in the earlier script who "had the most room to grow". Trevorrow chose the name "Claire", describing it as "hard on the surface but ultimately warm and loving", while Connolly chose the surname "Dearing". According to Trevorrow, Connolly "loves those Dickensian names that suggest a bit about the character, push the viewer in the direction the author wants them to go. She may seem sharp-edged at first, but ultimately she's very endearing." Although Chris Pratt received top billing for his role as Owen, Trevorrow said that Bryce Dallas Howard has the lead role as Claire. Trevorrow wanted the film's characters to have distinct appearances, and said about Claire, "She starts out with this snow white pristine outfit, then it all just gets completely torn apart". He stated further: "I wanted Claire to look like a white egret, and then be slowly torn apart over the course of the movie. To me, she is the park. And.... Discover the Claire Owen popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Claire Owen books.