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Claire Danes

Claire Danes

Birthday: 1979-04-12 | Place of Birth: Manhattan, New York, USA

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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2022
The Essex Serpent

as    Cora Seaborne

2018
A Kid Like Jake

as    Alex Wheeler

2017
Brigsby Bear

as    Emily

2013
As Cool as I Am

as    Lainee Diamond

2012
Ben Lee: Catch My Disease

as    Self

2011
Homeland

as    Carrie Mathison

2010
Temple Grandin

as    Temple Grandin

2009
Me and Orson Welles

as    Sonja Jones

2007
The Flock

as    Allison Lowry

2007
Evening

as    Ann Grant

2007
Stardust

as    Yvaine

2005
Seamless

as    Herself

2005
The Family Stone

as    Julie Morton

2005
Shopgirl

as    Mirabelle

2004
Stage Beauty

as    Maria

2003
It's All About Love

as    Elena

2003
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

as    Kate Brewster

2002
Igby Goes Down

as    Sookie

1999
Brokedown Palace

as    Alice Marano

1999
The Mod Squad

as    Julie Barnes

1998
Les Misérables

as    Cosette

1998
Polish Wedding

as    Hala

1997
I Love You, I Love You Not

as    Daisy / Young Nana

1997
U Turn

as    Jenny

1997
The Rainmaker

as    Kelly Riker

1996
Romeo + Juliet

as    Juliet

1996
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday

as    Rachel Lewis