
Cast
Claire Danes
Acting
Cast
Claire Danes
Known for
Acting
Born
1979-04-12
From
Manhattan, New York, USA
Also known as Claire Catherine 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.

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
as Kate Brewster

Stardust
as Yvaine

Romeo + Juliet
as Juliet

Little Women
as Beth March

The Hours
as Julia Vaughan

The Rainmaker
as Kelly Riker

Les Misérables
as Cosette

U Turn
as Jenny

Brokedown Palace
as Alice Marano

Temple Grandin
as Temple Grandin

The Family Stone
as Julie Morton

Stage Beauty
as Maria

Evening
as Ann Grant

Igby Goes Down
as Sookie

Shopgirl
as Mirabelle

The Flock
as Allison Lowry

Brigsby Bear
as Emily

How to Make an American Quilt
as Young Glady Joe

A Kid Like Jake
as Alex Wheeler

Home for the Holidays
as Kitt Larson

Me and Orson Welles
as Sonja Jones

Polish Wedding
as Hala

It's All About Love
as Elena

As Cool as I Am
as Lainee Diamond

Ben Lee: Catch My Disease
as Self

A Child's Garden of Poetry
as Self - Narrator (voice)

To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
as Rachel Lewis

The Mod Squad
as Julie Barnes

Seamless
as Self

The Rage in Placid Lake
as Girl at Seminar

Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast
as Self - Presenter

I Love You, I Love You Not
as Daisy / Young Nana

Geoffrey Beene 30

Everybody Wants to Be Gen X
as Self

Francis Ford Coppola Directs 'John Grisham's the Rainmaker'
as Self

Back from the Brink: Saved from Extinction
as Self - Narrator (voice)

Dreams of Love
as Edith Lammers

Georgia O'Keeffe: The Brightness of Light
as Georgia O'Keeffe (voice)

The Pesky Suitor
as Lisa