Alessandra Torresani (Claire)
Claire works as a bartender while she chases her dream of becoming a playwright. She first meets Howard and Raj at the comic book store, and she spends no time to enlist Raj to assist her in creating a script for her child-friendly sci-movie movie. Initially, Claire doesn’t have any feelings for Raj, but after spending time together, they start to have feelings for one another.
At the time, Raj was dating Emily, so he decided to end things with her in order to be exclusive with Claire. However, Emily doesn’t mind Raj seeing someone on the side, and Raj finds himself in a love triangle with Emily and Claire. In the end, Raj did the most Raj thing possible and ended his relationship with both of them.