Clarisse Percy Jackson: Who Clarisse La Rue Is and Who Plays Her

Clarisse La Rue is a camper at Camp Half-Blood, played by Leven Rambin in Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013), where she is credited as Clarisse La Rue and billed fifth. The film was directed by Thor Freudenthal, runs 106 minutes and is rated PG in the US, the UK and Australia, so she is a character the whole family can meet.

If you are searching for the Clarisse Percy Jackson actress, the film answer is Leven Rambin. The film comes from Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson novels, in which Clarisse is a fellow camper and a rival to Percy. The Disney+ series Percy Jackson and the Olympians is the television adaptation that followed, and as a series it does not get a film page on Cinvibe. Her film story sits on the Percy Jackson Sea of Monsters page, and the wider ensemble is on the Percy Jackson characters index.

What makes her useful to the story is where she stands in the camp. Percy has already been through one quest by the time this film opens, and other campers treat him as someone who got lucky once. Clarisse belongs to that crowd, so she shows that a hero's reputation at camp is never settled. Think of her as the team member who is certain she deserves the captain's armband, and who then gets a job that tests whether she does.

Clarisse's relationships in the films are with the camp as a whole, with Mr. D, who hands her the quest, and with Percy, whose standing among the campers she shadows.

The closest tie on screen is Mr. D (played by Stanley Tucci), because his decision sets her on her path. Chiron (Anthony Stewart Head) is the other adult at the center of the camp's decisions, and he tells Percy that the prophecy about a great hero may concern him, which sits uneasily next to Mr. D choosing Clarisse. The contrast between those two adults is part of why her quest matters.

With Percy, the dynamic is rivalry rather than friendship at the start. Other campers sneer at him over his single quest, and the quest going to Clarisse instead of him is a public message about who the camp trusts. Annabeth, Grover and Tyson are on Percy's side of that split, since they leave with him, while Luke is the force behind the poisoned tree. For the people around her, see Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase, Grover Underwood, Luke Castellan, Chiron and Tyson.

In my opinion, Clarisse's best moments are the two that bookend her film: being handed the quest and placing the Fleece on the tree. It could be argued that those two scenes make her more important than her screen time suggests, because everything in between belongs to Percy's group and her story pays off only when the Fleece arrives.

The first moment is Mr. D choosing her over Percy. It is a small scene, but it tells you how the camp sees the two of them, and it gives Percy a reason to disobey that feels earned rather than reckless. Perhaps the film could have given her more to do while Percy was crossing the sea, but the setup does at least give the ending its weight.

The second moment is the tree. The Fleece has been fought for across Washington, D.C., a yacht, a sea monster and a cyclops, and the person who finally sets it down is Clarisse. Thalia coming back to life in that same scene is the emotional high point of the film. If you are choosing a film for a family night and the younger viewers like camp stories more than sea monsters, this is the scene to point out. Compared with the first film, Percy Jackson the Lightning Thief, Sea of Monsters leans harder on the camp as a community, and Clarisse is the clearest example of that shift.