Paul Lazenby

"I'm about to get a punchinnaface on Once Upon a Time. From a girl, even."

- Paul Lazenby, the day "The Outsider" airedsrc

Paul Lazenby is the Canadian actor who portrays Claude on ABC's Once Upon a Time.

Biography
Paul Lazenby is from Vancouver, Canada and is an actor, stuntman and combat sports journalist. He is a mixed martial arts, heavy weights and kickboxing champion and became the first Canadian ever to fight in Japan's "Pancrase Hybrid Wrestling" MMA organization.

Since 2000, Paul has been a professional stuntman and actor in Vancouver. Having pro wrestling got him into the movie and TV industry and he has more than 140 stunt credits to his name, including famous movies like I, Robot, Catwoman, Elektra, X-Men 2, X-Men: The Last Stand,  Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, The Fog, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2, Deadpool and War for the Planet of the Apes; and TV shows like Andromeda, The Chronicles of Riddick, Battlestar Galactica, Eureka, Human Target, Almost Human, Arrow, iZombie, The Magicians and The 100. At some point, he began cultivated new skills by taking acting classes and his acting credits includes minor roles in more than ninety different movies, TV shows and video games, including several of the titles listed above. One of his most substantial roles was in the 2011 TV movie To The Mat, about a laid-back ex-wrestler (Ricky Schroder) who's trying to keep his family's wrestling school above water.

Paul was previously married to the late wrestler Marianna Komlos. The couple married and divorced in 2004.