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.
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as Sam Browne
2022
as Rachel Fleishman
2022
as Cora Seaborne
2019
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2018
as Alex Wheeler
2017
as Emily
2015
as Nina
2013
as Lainee Diamond
2012
as Self
2011
as Carrie Mathison
2011
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2011
as Joan
2010
as Temple Grandin
2008
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as Sonja Jones
2007
as Yvaine
2007
as Allison Lowry
2007
as Ann Grant
2005
as Julie Morton
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as Mirabelle
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as Self - Presenter
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as Self
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as Maria
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as Kate Brewster
2003
as Girl at Seminar
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as Elena
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as Julia Vaughan
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as Sookie
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as Herself - Host
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as Alice Marano
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as Self - Nominee
1999
as Julie Barnes
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as Cosette
1998
as Hala
1997
as Kelly Riker
1997
as Jenny
1996
as Juliet
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as Rachel Lewis
1996
as Daisy / Young Nana
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as Kitt Larson
1995
as Young Glady Joe
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as Lisa
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as Beth March
1994
as Angela Chase
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as Tracy Brandt
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as Self
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as Self
as Aggie Wiggs