Known For
Acting
Born
Apr 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.
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Variety & CNN Actors on Actors
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Everybody Wants to Be Gen X
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The American Revolution
Abigail Adams (voice)
The Beast in Me
Agatha 'Aggie' Wiggs
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Georgia O'Keeffe: The Brightness of Light
Georgia O'Keeffe (voice)
In Vogue: The 90s
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Full Circle
Sam Browne
Fleishman Is in Trouble
Rachel Fleishman
The Essex Serpent
Cora Seaborne
Back from the Brink: Saved from Extinction
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A Kid Like Jake
Alex Wheeler
Brigsby Bear
Emily
Master of None
Nina
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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The Late Late Show with James Corden
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Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
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Late Night with Seth Meyers
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The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
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As Cool as I Am
Lainee Diamond
Ben Lee: Catch My Disease
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Homeland
Carrie Mathison
A Child's Garden of Poetry
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Portlandia
Joan
Conan
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Temple Grandin
Temple Grandin
The City
Me and Orson Welles
Sonja Jones
Stardust
Yvaine
The Flock
Allison Lowry
Francis Ford Coppola Directs 'John Grisham's the Rainmaker'
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Evening
Ann Grant
The Family Stone
Julie Morton
Shopgirl
Mirabelle
The Colbert Report
Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast
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Seamless
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Stage Beauty
Maria
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
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Working Shakespeare
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
Kate Brewster
The Rage in Placid Lake
Girl at Seminar
It's All About Love
Elena
The Hours
Julia Vaughan
Igby Goes Down
Sookie
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The Early Show
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Brokedown Palace
Alice Marano
Teen Choice Awards
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