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.
Filmography
all 65
Movies 37
TV Shows 28
self 22
Narrator 1
Producer 1
Full Circle (2023)
Fleishman Is in Trouble (2022)
The Essex Serpent (2022)
Back from the Brink: Saved from Extinction (2019)
A Kid Like Jake (2018)
Brigsby Bear (2017)
Master of None (2015)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2015)
The Late Late Show with James Corden (2015)
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors (2014)
Late Night with Seth Meyers (2014)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2014)
As Cool as I Am (2013)
Ben Lee: Catch My Disease (2012)
Homeland (2011)
Lemon (2011)
A Child's Garden of Poetry (2011)
Portlandia (2011)
Conan (2010)
Temple Grandin (2010)
The City (2008)
Me and Orson Welles (2008)
Stardust (2007)
The Flock (2007)
Evening (2007)
The Family Stone (2005)
Shopgirl (2005)
The Colbert Report (2005)
A Concert for Hurricane Relief (2005)
Seamless (2005)
Stage Beauty (2004)
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
The Rage in Placid Lake (2003)
It's All About Love (2003)
The Hours (2002)
Igby Goes Down (2002)
art21 (2001)
The Early Show (1999)
Brokedown Palace (1999)
Teen Choice Awards (1999)
The Mod Squad (1999)
Les Misérables (1998)
Polish Wedding (1998)
Beavis and Butt-Head Do Thanksgiving (1997)
The Rainmaker (1997)
U Turn (1997)
Romeo + Juliet (1996)
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday (1996)
I Love You, I Love You Not (1996)
The Daily Show (1996)
Home for the Holidays (1995)
How to Make an American Quilt (1995)
The Pesky Suitor (1995)
Little Women (1994)
My So-Called Life (1994)
Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993)
Geoffrey Beene 30 (1993)
Lifestories: Families in Crisis (1992)
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992)
Law & Order (1990)
Saturday Night Live (1975)
The Oscars (1953)
Today (1952)
The Emmy Awards (1949)
A Child's Garden of Poetry
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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1979-04-12 (45 years old)
Birth NameClaire Catherine Danes
Birth PlaceManhattan, United States of America
SpouseHugh Dancy
ChildrenCyrus Michael Christopher Dancy
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsClaire Catherine Danes, 클레어 데인즈, Клэр Дэйнс
AwardsSatellite Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama, London Film Critics Circle Award for Actress of the Year, Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie, MTV Movie Award for Best Female Performance, Satellite Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film, Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Drama Actress, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film, Young Artist Awards, star on Hollywood Walk of Fame, TCA Award for Individual Achievement in Drama
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