Claire Danes
Claire Catherine Danes is an American actress. She gained early recognition as Angela Chase in the 1994 teen drama series My So-Called Life. Her other films include Romeo + Juliet, The Rainmaker, Les Misérables, Brokedown Palace, The Hours, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Shopgirl, Stardust, and A Kid Like Jake. She is the recipient of three Primetime Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.
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Claire Catherine Danes 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. Her other films include Home for the Holidays, Romeo + Juliet, The Rainmaker, Les Misérables, Brokedown Palace, The Hours, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Shopgirl, Stardust, and A Kid Like Jake. In 2010, she portrayed Temple Grandin in the highly acclaimed HBO TV film TempleGrandin, which won her a second Golden Globe and her first Primetime Emmys 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 PrimetimeEmmy Awards for Best Actress – Television Series Drama, and the Television Critics Association Award for Individual Achievement in Drama. 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.
She starred in the music video for Soul Asylum’s “Just Like Anyone” in 2011. She also appeared in the film version of The Hours in the 1999 English dub of Princess Mononoke. Her mother is a sculptor and printmaking artist, Carla Danes, and her older brother, Asa, is a lawyer. Her father worked as a residential general contractor in New York for 20 years in a company he ran called \”Overall Construction\”. She is named after her paternal grandmother, Claire Danes. Danes attended P. S. 3 and PS 11 for elementary school and Professional Performing Arts School for junior high school. She attended The Dalton School for one year of high school before moving with her parents to Santa Monica, California for the role in My so-C called Life. She graduated from the Lycée Français de Los Angeles in 1997. In 1998, she began studies at Yale University. After studying for two years as a psychology major, she dropped out to focus on her film career. She played a teenage murderer in a guest starring role on Law & Order in the season three episode \”Skin Deep\”.
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