 Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Claire Hale Underwood anobva munharaunda yakasarudzika yeHighland Park yeDallas, Texas. Baba vake vakafa vakanga vari muRepublican mukuru weTexas. Achidzidza Environmental Health and Chemistry paRadcliffe College muCambridge, akasangana naFrancis J. Frank Underwood, mudzidzi weHarvard Law wokuSouth Carolina. Akazowana dhigirii reMasters muPublic Health kuHarvard University. Iye anobva kumhuri yakapfuma, uye chiratidziro chinomuratidza se Dallas Debutante uye Lily White. Anorondedzera kuti baba vake vakamuendesa kuDealey Plaza, uko John F. Kennedy akaurayiwa, uye kuti kwakamuita kuti anzwe akasuruvara kwazvo, akatsamwa kwazvo. Iye ane ukama hwakaoma naamai vake, Elizabeth Hale Ellen Burstyn, uyo anozvidza Frank uye anoodzwa mwoyo naClaire nekumuroora. 