Claudia Peterson | |
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Vital Statistics | |
Gender | Female |
Status | Alive |
Spouse(s) | Howard Peterson (pending divorce) |
Children | Justin Peterson |
Character Information | |
Appearances | "Nanny McDead" |
Portrayed by | Jayne Brook |
Claudia Peterson is a character portrayed by Jayne Brook in the ABC crime series Castle.
Claudia was the employer of murder victim Sara Manning, who was the nanny for her son, Justin. She learned from Sara that her husband, Howard, was cheating on her with a woman from his office and paying Sara extra money to lie for him – although Sara eventually confessed what was really going on to Claudia.
When Ryan and Esposito uncovered the fact that Claudia wasn't at work at the time of the murder, as she had claimed, Beckett and Castle at first thought she was their killer. However, Claudia explained how Sara revealed to her that Howard was having an affair with his co-worker, and that at the time of Sara's murder, Claudia was at her lawyer's office, something she couldn't say in front of Howard, as the whole point was to serve him with divorce papers utterly without warning.