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Claire Danes
Born · April 12, 1979 (45 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.
Full Circle
Sam Browne · (6 episodes)
6.5
2023
Fleishman Is in Trouble
Rachel Fleishman · (8 episodes)
7.3
2022
The Essex Serpent
Cora Seaborne · (6 episodes)
6.8
2022
Back from the Brink: Saved from Extinction
Self - Narrator (voice)
7.0
2019
A Kid Like Jake
Alex Wheeler
6.0
2018
Brigsby Bear
Emily
7.1
2017
Master of None
Nina · (1 episode)
7.4
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self · (2 episodes)
6.6
2015
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Self · (1 episode)
5.4
2015
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self · (3 episodes)
4.4
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self · (1 episode)
5.5
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self · (4 episodes)
5.8
2014
As Cool as I Am
Lainee Diamond
5.9
2013
Ben Lee: Catch My Disease
Self
2.0
2012
Homeland
Carrie Mathison · (96 episodes)
7.6
2011
A Child's Garden of Poetry
Self - Narrator (voice)
4.0
2011
Portlandia
Joan · (1 episode)
6.9
2011
Conan
Self · (1 episode)
7.0
2010
Temple Grandin
Temple Grandin
7.7
2010
The City
(1 episode)
6.0
2008
Me and Orson Welles
Sonja Jones
6.4
2008
Stardust
Yvaine
7.3
2007
The Flock
Allison Lowry
5.7
2007
Evening
Ann Grant
5.9
2007
The Family Stone
Julie Morton
6.3
2005
Shopgirl
Mirabelle
5.8
2005
The Colbert Report
(1 episode)
6.8
2005
A Concert for Hurricane Relief
Self - Presenter
0.0
2005
Seamless
Self
4.7
2005
Stage Beauty
Maria
6.7
2004
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
Kate Brewster
6.2
2003
The Rage in Placid Lake
Girl at Seminar
6.6
2003
It's All About Love
Elena
5.4
2003
The Hours
Julia Vaughan
7.3
2002
Igby Goes Down
Sookie
6.6
2002
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Herself - Host · (4 episodes)
2.0
2001
The Early Show
Self · (1 episode)
5.7
1999
Brokedown Palace
Alice Marano
6.4
1999
Teen Choice Awards
Self - Nominee · (1 episode)
10.0
1999
The Mod Squad
Julie Barnes
4.3
1999
Les Misérables
Cosette
7.2
1998
Polish Wedding
Hala
5.2
1998
The Rainmaker
Kelly Riker
7.0
1997
U Turn
Jenny
6.6
1997
Romeo + Juliet
Juliet
6.8
1996
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
Rachel Lewis
5.5
1996
I Love You, I Love You Not
Daisy / Young Nana
5.1
1996
The Daily Show
Self · (1 episode)
6.4
1996
Home for the Holidays
Kitt Larson
6.3
1995
How to Make an American Quilt
Young Glady Joe
6.4
1995
The Pesky Suitor
Lisa
0.0
1995
Little Women
Beth March
7.3
1994
My So-Called Life
Angela Chase · (19 episodes)
7.6
1994
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest · (2 episodes)
7.1
1993
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self · (1 episode)
7.1
1993
Geoffrey Beene 30
0.0
1993
Lifestories: Families in Crisis
(1 episode)
3.8
1992
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
(1 episode)
5.4
1992
Law & Order
Tracy Brandt · (1 episode)
7.4
1990
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host · (1 episode)
6.9
1975
The Oscars
Self · (1 episode)
7.0
1953
Today
Self · (1 episode)
5.5
1952
The Emmy Awards
Self · (1 episode)
7.5
1949
The Beast in Me
Aggie Wiggs · (1 episode)
0.0