Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
April 12, 1979
Place of Birth:
Manhattan, New York, USA
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Claire Danes
Biography
Claire Catherine Danes (born April 12, 1979) is an American actress. She is the recipient of three Primetime Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. In 2012, Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world, and she was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2015.
Danes gained early recognition as Angela Chase in the 1994 teen drama series My So-Called Life. The role won her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress and a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. She made her film debut the same year in Little Women (1994). Her other films include Home for the Holidays (1995), Romeo + Juliet (1996), The Rainmaker (1997), Les Misérables (1998), Brokedown Palace (1999), the 1999 English dub of Princess Mononoke (1997), The Hours (2002), Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003), Shopgirl (2005), Stardust (2007), and A Kid Like Jake (2018).
From 1998 to 2000, Danes attended Yale University before dropping out to return to acting. She appeared in an Off-Broadway production of The Vagina Monologues in 2000 and made her Broadway debut playing Eliza Doolittle in the 2007 revival of Pygmalion. In 2010, she portrayed Temple Grandin in the highly acclaimed HBO television film Temple Grandin, which won her a second Golden Globe and her first Primetime Emmy Award for the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie. From 2011 to 2020, she starred as Carrie Mathison in the Showtime drama series Homeland, for which she won two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, two Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress – Television Series Drama, and the Television Critics Association Award for Individual Achievement in Drama.
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Georgia O’Keeffe: The Brightness of Light | Georgia O'Keeffe (voice) |
| 2019 | Back from the Brink: Saved from Extinction | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 2018 | A Kid Like Jake | Alex Wheeler |
| 2017 | Brigsby Bear | Emily |
| 2013 | As Cool as I Am | Lainee Diamond |
| 2012 | Ben Lee: Catch My Disease | Self |
| 2011 | A Child's Garden of Poetry | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 2010 | Temple Grandin | Temple Grandin |
| 2008 | Me and Orson Welles | Sonja Jones |
| 2007 | Stardust | Yvaine |
| 2007 | Evening | Ann Grant |
| 2007 | The Flock | Allison Lowry |
| 2005 | Shopgirl | Mirabelle |
| 2005 | The Family Stone | Julie Morton |
| 2005 | A Concert for Hurricane Relief | Self - Presenter |
| 2005 | Seamless | Self |
| 2004 | Stage Beauty | Maria |
| 2003 | Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines | Kate Brewster |
| 2003 | It's All About Love | Elena |
| 2003 | The Rage in Placid Lake | Girl at Seminar |
| 2002 | The Hours | Julia Vaughan |
| 2002 | Igby Goes Down | Sookie |
| 1999 | The Mod Squad | Julie Barnes |
| 1999 | Brokedown Palace | Alice Marano |
| 1998 | Les Misérables | Cosette |
| 1998 | Polish Wedding | Hala |
| 1997 | U Turn | Jenny |
| 1997 | The Rainmaker | Kelly Riker |
| 1996 | Romeo + Juliet | Juliet |
| 1996 | To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday | Rachel Lewis |
| 1996 | I Love You, I Love You Not | Daisy / Young Nana |
| 1995 | How to Make an American Quilt | Young Glady Joe |
| 1995 | Home for the Holidays | Kitt Larson |
| 1995 | The Pesky Suitor | Lisa |
| 1994 | Little Women | Beth March |
| 1993 | Geoffrey Beene 30 |