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Claire Danes

Claire Danes

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.

Full Circle

2023

as Sam Browne

Fleishman Is in Trouble

2022

as Rachel Fleishman

The Essex Serpent

2022

as Cora Seaborne

Back from the Brink: Saved from Extinction

2019

as Self - Narrator (voice)

A Kid Like Jake

2018

as Alex Wheeler

Brigsby Bear

2017

as Emily

Master of None

2015

as Nina

As Cool as I Am

2013

as Lainee Diamond

Ben Lee: Catch My Disease

2012

as Self

Homeland

2011

as Carrie Mathison

A Child's Garden of Poetry

2011

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Portlandia

2011

as Joan

Temple Grandin

2010

as Temple Grandin

The City

2008

Me and Orson Welles

2008

as Sonja Jones

Stardust

2007

as Yvaine

The Flock

2007

as Allison Lowry

Evening

2007

as Ann Grant

The Family Stone

2005

as Julie Morton

Shopgirl

2005

as Mirabelle

A Concert for Hurricane Relief

2005

as Self - Presenter

Seamless

2005

as Self

Stage Beauty

2004

as Maria

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

2003

as Kate Brewster

The Rage in Placid Lake

2003

as Girl at Seminar

It's All About Love

2003

as Elena

The Hours

2002

as Julia Vaughan

Igby Goes Down

2002

as Sookie

art21

2001

as Herself - Host

Brokedown Palace

1999

as Alice Marano

Teen Choice Awards

1999

as Self - Nominee

The Mod Squad

1999

as Julie Barnes

Les Misérables

1998

as Cosette

Polish Wedding

1998

as Hala

The Rainmaker

1997

as Kelly Riker

U Turn

1997

as Jenny

Romeo + Juliet

1996

as Juliet

To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday

1996

as Rachel Lewis

I Love You, I Love You Not

1996

as Daisy / Young Nana

Home for the Holidays

1995

as Kitt Larson

How to Make an American Quilt

1995

as Young Glady Joe

The Pesky Suitor

1995

as Lisa

Little Women

1994

as Beth March

My So-Called Life

1994

as Angela Chase

Geoffrey Beene 30

1993

Lifestories: Families in Crisis

1992

Law & Order

1990

as Tracy Brandt

The Oscars

1953

as Self

The Emmy Awards

1949

as Self

The Beast in Me

as Aggie Wiggs