Claire Danes
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- DramaEvening
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- CrimeHomeland
- DramaRomeo + Juliet
- ActionTerminator 3: Rise of the Machines
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- DramaBrokedown Palace
- DramaA Kid Like Jake
- DramaStage Beauty
- DramaI Love You, I Love You Not
- CrimeThe Rainmaker
- ComedyIgby Goes Down
- DramaShopgirl
- DramaLittle Women
- ComedyMe and Orson Welles
- DramaTo Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
- CrimeLes Misérables
- ComedyAs Cool as I Am
- DocumentaryBen Lee: Catch My Disease
- ComedyThe Family Stone
- CrimeU Turn
- ComedyHome for the Holidays
- ComedyBrigsby Bear
- AnimationPrincess Mononoke
- DramaThe Hours
- AnimationPrincess Mononoke
- ComedyThe Rage in Placid Lake
- DramaThe Essex Serpent
- ComedyMy So-Called Life
- ComedyPolish Wedding
- DocumentaryBack from the Brink: Saved From Extinction
- CrimeFull Circle
- DramaFleishman Is in Trouble
- CrimeThe Flock
- DramaIt's All About Love
- AnimationA Child's Garden of Poetry
- ComedyThe Pesky Suitor
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Claire Danes
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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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- Manhattan, New York, USA
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