Claire Danes

Known for ActingBorn 1979-04-12 (age 47)Manhattan, New York, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Teen Choice Awards

In Vogue: The 90s

Temple Grandin

The Pesky Suitor

Dreams of Love

Homeland

My So-Called Life

Master of None

Fleishman Is in Trouble

The Emmy Awards

Stardust

The Beast in Me

Conan

The Hours

Brigsby Bear

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Little Women

Les Misérables

Back from the Brink: Saved from Extinction

Law & Order

SNL50: The Homecoming Concert

The Colbert Report

Portlandia

The Rainmaker

Romeo + Juliet

The Essex Serpent

Saturday Night Live

Stage Beauty

The Oscars

Full Circle

Igby Goes Down

Biography

U Turn

The Rage in Placid Lake

Me and Orson Welles

Golden Globe Awards

Brokedown Palace

The Daily Show

How to Make an American Quilt

The Family Stone

Home for the Holidays

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

The Early Show

A Kid Like Jake

The American Revolution

The City

As Cool as I Am