1979-04-12 ( 45 years old ) in 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.
Movies
Georgia O’Keeffe: The Brightness of Light
2024-11-03
Back from the Brink: Saved from Extinction
2019-10-01
A Kid Like Jake
2018-06-01
Brigsby Bear
2017-07-27
As Cool as I Am
2013-06-21
Ben Lee: Catch My Disease
2012-11-06
A Child's Garden of Poetry
2011-04-28
Temple Grandin
2010-02-06
Me and Orson Welles
2008-09-05
Stardust
2007-08-10
The Flock
2007-08-04
Evening
2007-06-09
The Family Stone
2005-12-15
Shopgirl
2005-10-21
A Concert for Hurricane Relief
2005-09-02
Seamless
2005-04-26
Stage Beauty
2004-09-03
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
2003-07-02
The Rage in Placid Lake
2003-05-17
It's All About Love
2003-01-10
The Hours
2002-12-27
Igby Goes Down
2002-09-13
Brokedown Palace
1999-08-13
The Mod Squad
1999-03-26
Les Misérables
1998-05-01
Polish Wedding
1998-01-16
The Rainmaker
1997-11-18
U Turn
1997-10-03
Romeo + Juliet
1996-11-01
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
1996-10-25
I Love You, I Love You Not
1996-08-28
Home for the Holidays
1995-11-02
How to Make an American Quilt
1995-10-06
The Pesky Suitor
1995-01-06
Little Women
1994-12-21
Geoffrey Beene 30
1993-04-05
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