She had one older brother, Knute Eystein Berger Jr. Berjer was well-known to television audiences for her roles in daytime soap operas.
During her time on the show, Claire dealt with widowhood, remarrying, the fallout of her husband having an affair with a younger woman and alcoholism.
Years later, Berjer's co-star Eileen Fulton, who portrayed Claire's love rival Lisa) revealed in an interview that Berjer's exit came as the result of producers realizing that the character of Claire had become a great-grandmother (her on-screen grandson Dan Stewart had been rapidly aged to adulthood and had just had a child of his own).
In 1983, she had a one-day appearance on All My Children as the secretary Erica Kane talks to in vain in an effort to reach Adam Chandler.
[1] At the time of her death, she was survived by her son Thomas Michael Foley of Manhattan; her sister-in-law, Margi Berger of Bainbridge Island, Washington;, and several nieces, nephews and cousins.