Claire Paris is an award winning writer and actor who has appeared in several films throughout her career, most notably “A Few Good Men” and “National Treasure”. Claire is now an executive producer/writer with her own series entitled “Claire Paris: Spy” on Showtime. The show revolves around a high profile private investigator named Claire Paris whose professional life is riddled with complications due to her height.
Claire meets and falls in love with a much younger man named Richard, played by Russell Brand, who is two inches short of her actual height. Paris is forced to make changes in her life both professionally and personally to meet the demands of her growing role as an actress and writer. Her height requirements begin to wreak havoc on her romantic life and she discovers that her height may be preventing her from being happily ever after with her long term partner. As she strives to meet all of her responsibilities while maintaining a loving relationship with Richard, she begins to realize that her life is not what she imagined it to be. Her marriage to Richard also suffers a dramatic collapse, which leaves her with deep emotional pain. Her final scenes in the series reveal her to be nearly breaking up with Richard because of their differences over her height requirements.
As Claire’s realization of her lack of happiness deepens, her marriage to Richard takes a dramatic turn for the worse when he announces that he is moving to another country to work and pursue his artistic career. Paris attempts to console her friend by telling her about how wonderful it would be if they could simply grow to be an inch taller together, but she realizes that Richard is already too far gone. The tragic story of Claire and Richard mirrors many other stories where tall women find themselves left alone after marriage or pursuing an artistic career when they are meant to be supporting a family. Height requirements can cause hardships to people’s lives and they should be respected.