Born
12 April 1979 (46)
Place of Birth
Manhattan, New York, USA
Also known as
Claire Catherine 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 ...
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.
Everybody Wants to Be Gen X
2025
Georgia O'Keeffe: The Brightness of Light
2024
Back from the Brink: Saved from Extinction
2019
A Kid Like Jake
2018
Brigsby Bear
2017
As Cool as I Am
2013
Ben Lee: Catch My Disease
2012
A Child's Garden of Poetry
2011
Temple Grandin
2010
Me and Orson Welles
2008
Stardust
2007
The Flock
2007
Francis Ford Coppola Directs 'John Grisham's the Rainmaker'
2007
Evening
2007
The Family Stone
2005
Shopgirl
2005
Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast
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
Brokedown Palace
1999
The Mod Squad
1999
Les Misérables
1998
Polish Wedding
1998
The Rainmaker
1997
U Turn
1997
Romeo + Juliet
1996
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
1996
I Love You, I Love You Not
1996
Home for the Holidays
1995
How to Make an American Quilt
1995
The Pesky Suitor
1995
Little Women
1994
Geoffrey Beene 30
1993
Dreams of Love
1992