Claire Danes
Award-winning American actress celebrated for landmark roles in television and film across three decades of acclaimed work.
Claire Danes - Personal Information
- Name: Claire Danes
- Date of Birth: April 12, 1979
- Place of Birth: Manhattan, New York, USA
- Gender: Female
- Job Title: Actor
- Crew Jobs: Executive Producer, Producer, Co-Executive Producer
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.
Selected Filmography
A selection of Claire Danes' most notable recent screen appearances across film and television.
- Everybody Wants to Be Gen X (2025) as Self
- The American Revolution (TV - 2025) as Abigail Adams (voice)
- The Beast in Me (TV - 2025) as Agatha 'Aggie' Wiggs
- Georgia O'Keeffe: The Brightness of Light (2024) as Georgia O'Keeffe (voice)
- In Vogue: The 90s (TV - 2024) as Self
- Full Circle (TV - 2023) as Sam Browne
- Fleishman Is in Trouble (TV - 2022) as Rachel Fleishman
- The Essex Serpent (TV - 2022) as Cora Seaborne
- Back from the Brink: Saved from Extinction (2019) as Self - Narrator (voice)
- A Kid Like Jake (2018) as Alex Wheeler
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