Claire Corff may have started as an apprentice to world renowned voice coach Bob Corff, but she quickly developed into a great voice coach in her own right. She has since become the co-founder of Corff Voice Studios as well as the co-author of “Achieving the Standard American Accent” and a number of different accent audio courses. Most of the students she has taught through both private lessons and on-set dialect coaching would not guess that this master dialect coach was actually once so shy that her mother forced her into an acting class just to break out of her shell.
Claire was born the middle child of seven children in Steinbeck Country, to an Evangelical Minister father and a Housewife mother. Her mother enrolled young Claire at the Carmel Conservatory to take dancing and acting classes. She was a natural acting talent and soon began to win numerous acting awards and was later accepted to the prestigious Cal Arts as a theater major. While studying at Cal Arts she guest starred in episodic TV shows, several television pilots, feature films, and booked dozens of commercials.
It was early in her professional acting career that she met the popular voice teacher Bob Corff and her plans quickly changed. Bob’s passion for voice and dialect coaching sparked Claire’s own love for teaching voice lessons and she left her acting career behind to become a Los Angeles based dialect coach. Building on her previous studies of phonetics, years of voice lessons, and having played many roles that required learning a foreign accent, she apprenticed Bob in his teaching for a number of years before she gradually started teaching herself. She is currently teaching private voice lessons at Corff Voice Studios, accent reduction classes at the prestigious Strasberg institute, and continues to work with Bob to develop new audio courses so anyone can learn a new accent.