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Claire Danes

Born · April 12, 1979 (46 years old)

Known For: Acting

Place of Birth: Manhattan, New York, USA

Bio

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

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

Romeo + Juliet

Romeo + Juliet

Stardust

Stardust

Homeland

Homeland

Georgia O’Keeffe: The Brightness of Light

Georgia O'Keeffe (voice)

2024

Full Circle

Sam Browne · (6 episodes)

2023

Fleishman Is in Trouble

Rachel Fleishman · (8 episodes)

2022

The Essex Serpent

Cora Seaborne · (6 episodes)

2022

Back from the Brink: Saved from Extinction

Self - Narrator (voice)

2019

A Kid Like Jake

Alex Wheeler

2018

Brigsby Bear

Emily

2017

Master of None

Nina · (1 episode)

2015

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Self · (2 episodes)

2015

The Late Late Show with James Corden

Self · (1 episode)

2015

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

Self · (3 episodes)

2014

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Self · (1 episode)

2014

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Self · (4 episodes)

2014

As Cool as I Am

Lainee Diamond

2013

Ben Lee: Catch My Disease

Self

2012

Homeland

Carrie Mathison · (96 episodes)

2011

A Child's Garden of Poetry

Self - Narrator (voice)

2011

Portlandia

Joan · (1 episode)

2011

Conan

Self · (1 episode)

2010

Temple Grandin

Temple Grandin

2010

The City

(1 episode)

2008

Me and Orson Welles

Sonja Jones

2008

Stardust

Yvaine

2007

The Flock

Allison Lowry

2007

Evening

Ann Grant

2007

The Family Stone

Julie Morton

2005

Shopgirl

Mirabelle

2005

The Colbert Report

(1 episode)

2005

A Concert for Hurricane Relief

Self - Presenter

2005

Seamless

Self

2005

Stage Beauty

Maria

2004

Working Shakespeare

(5 episodes)

2003

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

Kate Brewster

2003

The Rage in Placid Lake

Girl at Seminar

2003

It's All About Love

Elena

2003

The Hours

Julia Vaughan

2002

Igby Goes Down

Sookie

2002

art21

Herself - Host · (4 episodes)

2001

The Early Show

Self · (1 episode)

1999

Brokedown Palace

Alice Marano

1999

Teen Choice Awards

Self - Nominee · (1 episode)

1999

The Mod Squad

Julie Barnes

1999

Les Misérables

Cosette

1998

Polish Wedding

Hala

1998

The Rainmaker

Kelly Riker

1997

U Turn

Jenny

1997

Romeo + Juliet

Juliet

1996

To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday

Rachel Lewis

1996

I Love You, I Love You Not

Daisy / Young Nana

1996

The Daily Show

Self · (1 episode)

1996

Home for the Holidays

Kitt Larson

1995

How to Make an American Quilt

Young Glady Joe

1995

The Pesky Suitor

Lisa

1995

Little Women

Beth March

1994

My So-Called Life

Angela Chase · (19 episodes)

1994

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Self - Guest · (2 episodes)

1993

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Self · (1 episode)

1993

Geoffrey Beene 30

1993

Lifestories: Families in Crisis

(1 episode)

1992

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

(1 episode)

1992

Law & Order

Tracy Brandt · (1 episode)

1990

Biography

Self · (1 episode)

1987

Saturday Night Live

Self - Host · (1 episode)

1975

The Oscars

Self · (1 episode)

1953

Today

Self · (1 episode)

1952

The Emmy Awards

Self · (1 episode)

1949

The Beast in Me

Aggie Wiggs · (1 episode)