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.
Known for
Law & Order
Tracy Brandt
Homeland
Carrie Mathison
Portlandia
Joan
Biography
Self
The Oscars
Self
Fleishman Is in Trouble
Rachel Fleishman
My So-Called Life
Angela Chase
Master of None
Nina
Full Circle
Sam Browne
The Essex Serpent
Cora Seaborne
Working Shakespeare
art21
Herself - Host
The City
The Emmy Awards
Self
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
Kate Brewster
The Beast in Me
Aggie Wiggs
Lifestories: Families in Crisis
Stardust
Yvaine
Romeo + Juliet
Juliet
The Rainmaker
Kelly Riker
Little Women
Beth March
The Hours
Julia Vaughan
Temple Grandin
Temple Grandin
Les Misérables
Cosette
The Family Stone
Julie Morton
Brokedown Palace
Alice Marano
U Turn
Jenny
Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast
Self - Presenter
Brigsby Bear
Emily
How to Make an American Quilt
Young Glady Joe
The Flock
Allison Lowry
The Mod Squad
Julie Barnes
Evening
Ann Grant
Igby Goes Down
Sookie
Home for the Holidays
Kitt Larson
A Kid Like Jake
Alex Wheeler
Shopgirl
Mirabelle
Me and Orson Welles
Sonja Jones
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
Rachel Lewis
Stage Beauty
Maria
I Love You, I Love You Not
Daisy / Young Nana
As Cool as I Am
Lainee Diamond
Polish Wedding
Hala
Teen Choice Awards
Self - Nominee
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self
It's All About Love
Elena
The Daily Show
Self
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self
A Child's Garden of Poetry
Self - Narrator (voice)
Seamless
Self
The Rage in Placid Lake
Girl at Seminar
Geoffrey Beene 30
Ben Lee: Catch My Disease
Self
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Self
Back from the Brink: Saved from Extinction
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Colbert Report
Conan
Self
The Pesky Suitor
Lisa
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self
Georgia O’Keeffe: The Brightness of Light
Georgia O'Keeffe (voice)
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee/Presenter
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
Today
Self
The Early Show
Self