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Claire Danes
Actor, ProducerBorn April 12, 1979 (46 years)
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.
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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| 2023 | Full Circle (2023) (TV Series) · as Sam Browne |
| 2022 | Fleishman Is in Trouble (TV Series) · as Rachel Fleishman |
| 2022 | The Essex Serpent (TV Series) · as Cora Seaborne |
| 2018 | A Kid Like Jake · as Alex Wheeler |
| 2017 | Brigsby Bear · as Emily |
| 2015 | Master of None (TV Series) · as Nina |
| 2013 | As Cool as I Am · as Lainee Diamond |
| 2011 | Homeland (TV Series) · as Carrie Mathison |
| 2011 | Portlandia (TV Series) · as Joan |
| 2010 | Temple Grandin · as Temple Grandin |
| 2008 | The City (2008) (TV Series) |
| 2008 | Me and Orson Welles · as Sonja Jones |
| 2007 | Stardust · as Yvaine |
| 2007 | |
| 2007 | Evening · as Ann Grant |
| 2005 | The Family Stone · as Julie Morton |
| 2005 | Shopgirl · as Mirabelle |
| 2005 | The Colbert Report (TV Series) |
| 2004 | Stage Beauty · as Maria |
| 2003 | The Rage in Placid Lake · as Girl At Seminar |
| 2003 | Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines · as Kate Brewster |
| 2003 | It's All About Love · as Elena |
| 2002 | The Hours · as Julia Vaughan |
| 2002 | Igby Goes Down · as Sookie |
| 2002 | Brilliant But Cancelled · as Cast |
| 2000 | Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years · as Juliet |
| 1999 | Saturday Night Live 25 · as Debbie Matenopoulos |
| 1999 | Brokedown Palace · as Alice Marano |
| 1999 | The Mod Squad · as Julie Barnes |
| 1998 | Polish Wedding · as Hala |
| 1998 | Les Misérables · as Cosette |
| 1997 | The Rainmaker · as Kelly Riker |
| 1997 | U Turn · as Jenny |
| 1997 | Princess Mononoke · as San |
| 1996 | Romeo + Juliet · as Juliet |
| 1996 | To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday · as Rachel Lewis |
| 1996 | I Love You, I Love You Not · as Daisy / Young Nana |
| 1995 | Home for the Holidays · as Kitt Larson |
| 1995 | How to Make an American Quilt · as Young Glady Joe |
| 1994 | Little Women · as Beth March |
| 1994 | My So-Called Life (TV Series) · as Angela Chase |
| 1993 | Dudley (TV Series) · as Lisa Bristol |
| 1992 | Lifestories: Families in Crisis (TV Series) |
| 1992 | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (TV Series) |
| 1990 | Law & Order (TV Series) · as Tracy Brandt |