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Name
Claire Danes

Known For
Acting

Birthday
1979-04-12 (47 years old)

Place of Birth
Manhattan, New York, USA

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

Movies

Tv Shows

2003 Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines as Kate Brewster
1996 Romeo + Juliet as Juliet
2002 The Hours as Julia Vaughan
1997 U Turn as Jenny
2007 Stardust as Yvaine
2005 Shopgirl as Mirabelle
1998 Les Misérables as Cosette
1996 To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday as Rachel Lewis
2007 Evening as Ann Grant
1995 How to Make an American Quilt as Young Glady Joe
1997 The Rainmaker as Kelly Riker
2005 The Family Stone as Julie Morton
1995 Home for the Holidays as Kitt Larson
2008 Me and Orson Welles as Sonja Jones
2003 It's All About Love as Elena
2010 Temple Grandin as Temple Grandin
1994 Little Women as Beth March
2004 Stage Beauty as Maria
2002 Igby Goes Down as Sookie
2007 The Flock as Allison Lowry
1998 Polish Wedding as Hala
1996 I Love You, I Love You Not as Daisy / Young Nana
1999 The Mod Squad as Julie Barnes
1999 Brokedown Palace as Alice Marano
2013 As Cool as I Am as Lainee Diamond
2012 Ben Lee: Catch My Disease as Self
2011 A Child's Garden of Poetry as Self - Narrator (voice)
2005 Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast as Self - Presenter
2005 Seamless as Self
2017 Brigsby Bear as Emily
2018 A Kid Like Jake as Alex Wheeler
1993 Geoffrey Beene 30
1995 The Pesky Suitor as Lisa
2003 The Rage in Placid Lake as Girl at Seminar
2019 Back from the Brink: Saved from Extinction as Self - Narrator (voice)
2024 Georgia O'Keeffe: The Brightness of Light as Georgia O'Keeffe (voice)
2025 Everybody Wants to Be Gen X as Self
1992 Dreams of Love as Edith Lammers
2007 Francis Ford Coppola Directs 'John Grisham's the Rainmaker' as Self
Soon RSC Meets USA: Working Shakespeare as Self
2025 SNL50: The Homecoming Concert as Self

1990 Law & Order ( 1 episode ) as Tracy Brandt
2011 Homeland ( 96 episodes ) as Carrie Mathison
1994 My So-Called Life ( 19 episodes ) as Angela Chase
1996 The Daily Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
1952 Today ( 1 episode ) as Self
1999 The Early Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
1992 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno ( 1 episode ) as Self
2022 The Essex Serpent ( 6 episodes ) as Cora Seaborne
2005 The Colbert Report ( 1 episode )
2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert ( 2 episodes ) as Self
1993 Late Night with Conan O'Brien ( 2 episodes ) as Self - Guest
2008 The City ( 1 episode )
1992 Lifestories: Families in Crisis ( 1 episode )
1953 The Oscars ( 1 episode ) as Self
1949 The Emmy Awards ( 1 episode ) as Self
1975 Saturday Night Live ( 1 episode ) as Self - Host
2015 The Late Late Show with James Corden ( 1 episode ) as Self
2015 Master of None ( 1 episode ) as Nina
2001 art21 ( 4 episodes ) as Herself - Host
2022 Fleishman Is in Trouble ( 8 episodes ) as Rachel Fleishman
2011 Portlandia ( 1 episode ) as Joan
2014 Variety Studio: Actors on Actors ( 3 episodes ) as Self
2014 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon ( 4 episodes ) as Self - Guest
1999 Teen Choice Awards ( 1 episode ) as Self
2014 Late Night with Seth Meyers ( 3 episodes ) as Self - Guest
2023 Full Circle ( 6 episodes ) as Sam Browne
2025 The Beast in Me ( 8 episodes ) as Agatha 'Aggie' Wiggs
1993 Late Night with Conan O'Brien ( 1 episode ) as Self
2010 Conan ( 1 episode ) as Self
1987 Biography ( 1 episode ) as Self
2003 Working Shakespeare ( 5 episodes )
1944 Golden Globe Awards ( 1 episode ) as Self - Nominee / Presenter
2024 In Vogue: The 90s ( 6 episodes ) as Self
Soon The Spot ( 0 episode )
2025 The American Revolution ( 6 episodes ) as Abigail Adams (voice)
1995 The Actor Awards Presented by SAG-AFTRA ( 1 episode ) as Self
2026 Skip Intro ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
Soon Lovesick ( 1 episode ) as Annika
2003 The Ellen DeGeneres Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
2025 Variety & CNN Actors on Actors ( 1 episode ) as Self
2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
2025 Good Hang with Amy Poehler ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest

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