Claudia Bankson

Claudia Bankson is a fictional magazine editor and a recurring character featured on the FX Network television series American Horror Story, and is associated with the season five storyline, "Hotel". Played by actress Naomi Campbell, she first appeared in the second episode of season five titled, "Chutes and Ladders". She made two appearances in the series in total.

Biography
Claudia Bankson was an African American woman who worked as a fashion editor for Vogue Magazine. She was in Los Angeles, California in 2015 to cover a runway gala at the Hotel Cortez, which was held to honor the building's new owner, Will Drake, who had left New York City for California. She was present when model Tristan Duffy got into a physical altercation with one of the guests.

Claudia remained at the Hotel Cortez for the next several days to help Will with some interior design ideas. She stayed in Room 64, which had a long and storied history of violence and murder, though Claudia was unaware of this.

A man named Gabriel, who had been attacked and sewn into the mattress of her bed, emerged and attacked Claudia. She tried to defend herself with an ice pick, but Gabriel grabbed it, stabbing her repeatedly, until she was dead. Claudia's spirit became one of many ghosts bound to the hotel.

Notes & Trivia



 * Claudia Bankson is the second character in a horror project killed with an ice pick that she had initially used for self defense. The first was Alice Hardy - the Final Girl from the original Friday the 13th, who met a similar end in the first eleven minutes of Friday the 13th Part 2.


 * Claudia Bankson is the second character on American Horror Story who has the first name of Claudia. In season two's "Asylum", there is a character named Mother Claudia, who is played by actress Barbara Tarbuck.


 * Playing the part of Claudia Bankson is Naomi Campbell's first role on American Horror Story. Naomi Campbell first came to prominence as a supermodel in the 1980s.

Appearances

 * American Horror Story: Chutes and Ladders
 * American Horror Story: Mommy