Clara Oswald facts for kids
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Clara Oswald is a fictional character from the British science fiction TV show Doctor Who. She is played by Jenna-Louise Coleman. Clara first appeared in the show's seventh series. She is a special friend, called a companion, to the eleventh version of the alien time traveller the Doctor (played by Matt Smith).
Between 2012 and 2013, Clara was shown as three different people, all with the same name. Each one was played by the same actress. The first two versions of Clara died in the episode they appeared in. The third version became the Doctor's full-time companion. Even though they seemed different, these characters were meant to be the same person. This created a big mystery for the Doctor to solve. Jenna Coleman became the main female star of the show in the middle of the series, during the Christmas special. In that episode, she played a Victorian governess and barmaid named Clara Oswin Oswald. At the end of that episode, Coleman was seen playing a third version of the character. This Clara was from modern-day London and was simply called Clara Oswald. Starting with the next episode, Clara Oswald began traveling with the Doctor full-time. When she was first introduced, she gave herself the nickname Oswin, which is a mix of Oswald and "win."
Jenna Coleman has said she will be in the eighth series of Doctor Who. Filming for it began in September 2013.
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Clara's Adventures
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Oswin Oswald: The Dalek Asylum
Oswin Oswald first appeared in the first episode of the seventh series, called "Asylum of the Daleks". She was the only person to survive from the Starship Alaska. This ship crashed on the Asylum, a prison planet for crazy Daleks. Oswin had lived on the planet for about a year. The Doctor (Matt Smith) and his friends Amy (Karen Gillan) and Rory (Arthur Darvill) came to the Dalek Asylum. They needed to turn off the planet's force field. This would allow an army of normal Daleks to destroy the asylum.
Clara talked with the Doctor and his friends. She helped them escape from the Daleks. She also removed all of the Daleks' memories of the Doctor. After she helped the group escape, the Doctor tried to save her. But he soon found out that she had already been captured. She was turned into a Dalek cyborg. The Daleks wanted to keep Oswin's smart mind. However, her mind could not handle being turned into a cyborg. So, it created a fantasy where she was still a human. When she learned the truth, Oswin almost became fully taken over by her Dalek personality. But in the end, she still refused to hurt the Doctor. She turned off the force field. Clara asked the Doctor to remember her. Then she let the Doctor, Amy, and Rory leave the planet before it was destroyed.
Clara Oswin Oswald: The Snowmen
Clara was introduced a second time in the 2012 Christmas special, "The Snowmen". This was her first episode as the Doctor's companion. She was a young barmaid and governess in 1892. She followed the Doctor after he saved her from attacks by living snowmen. The Doctor asked her to travel with him after she entered the TARDIS, his time and space machine. Soon after this, Clara fell to her death after being attacked. Her tombstone showed her full name was Clara Oswin Oswald. The Doctor realized she was the same woman as Oswin from the Asylum. She even said some of the same things Oswin had said.
Clara Oswald: The Modern Companion
Curious about a woman who had lived and died two times in different parts of history, the Doctor began looking across time for another Clara. The episode "The Snowmen" ended with a young woman. She looked like a modern-day Clara. She walked through a graveyard and stopped by Clara Oswin Oswald's tomb. In a short prequel to the next episode, the Doctor met the modern Clara Oswald as a child. But he did not know it was her at the time.
In "The Bells of Saint John", the modern Clara met the Doctor. She had been given his phone number by a woman in a shop. After an adventure in London, the Doctor asked Clara to become his companion. In "The Rings of Akhaten", the Doctor tried to learn more about who Clara really was. He watched her parents and her childhood. He found nothing unusual. The episode showed that her mother died when Clara was a teenager. In "Hide", the Doctor went to a haunted mansion. He asked the psychic Emma Grayling about Clara. Emma said Clara was just an ordinary girl. "Hide" and "Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS" also showed that the TARDIS, the Doctor's time machine, did not seem to like Clara. In a version of time that was stopped from happening, the Doctor talked with Clara about the two earlier versions of her he had met. She did not know what he was talking about.
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In Spanish: Clara Oswald para niños
