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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
April 12, 1979
Place of Birth
Manhattan, New York, USA
Also Known As
- Claire Catherine Danes
Claire Danes
9.0 Popularity
Biography
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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Self
Everybody Wants to Be Gen X
2025
5.2
Abigail Adams (voice)
The American Revolution
2025
5.2
voice
The American Revolution
2025
7.2
Agatha 'Aggie' Wiggs
The Beast in Me
2025
0.0
Georgia O'Keeffe (voice)
Georgia O'Keeffe: The Brightness of Light
2024
8.7
Self
In Vogue: The 90s
2024
6.5
Sam Browne
Full Circle
2023
7.1
Rachel Fleishman
Fleishman Is in Trouble
2022
6.6
Cora Seaborne
The Essex Serpent
2022
7.0
Self - Narrator (voice)
Back from the Brink: Saved from Extinction
2019
Credits
Everybody Wants to Be Gen X
as Self
2025
0.0
The American Revolution
as Abigail Adams (voice)
2025
5.2
The American Revolution
as voice
2025
5.2
The Beast in Me
as Agatha 'Aggie' Wiggs
2025
7.2
Georgia O'Keeffe: The Brightness of Light
as Georgia O'Keeffe (voice)
2024
0.0
In Vogue: The 90s
as Self
2024
8.7
Full Circle
as Sam Browne
2023
6.5
Fleishman Is in Trouble
as Rachel Fleishman
2022
7.1
The Essex Serpent
as Cora Seaborne
2022
6.6
Back from the Brink: Saved from Extinction
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2019
7.0
A Kid Like Jake
as Alex Wheeler
2018
6.0
Brigsby Bear
as Emily
2017
7.1
Master of None
as Nina
2015
7.4
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
2015
6.2
The Late Late Show with James Corden
as Self
2015
5.3
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
2014
4.6
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self - Guest
2014
5.3
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
2014
5.9
As Cool as I Am
as Lainee Diamond
2013
5.8
Ben Lee: Catch My Disease
as Self
2012
2.0
Homeland
as Carrie Mathison
2011
7.6
A Child's Garden of Poetry
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2011
4.0
Portlandia
as Joan
2011
7.0
Conan
as Self
2010
7.1
Temple Grandin
as Temple Grandin
2010
7.8
The City
2008
6.0
Me and Orson Welles
as Sonja Jones
2008
6.4
Stardust
as Yvaine
2007
7.3
The Flock
as Allison Lowry
2007
5.6
Evening
as Ann Grant
2007
5.8
The Family Stone
as Julie Morton
2005
6.3
Shopgirl
as Mirabelle
2005
5.8
The Colbert Report
2005
6.9
Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast
as Self - Presenter
2005
2.0
🎬
Seamless
as Self
2005
4.7
Stage Beauty
as Maria
2004
6.6
Working Shakespeare
2003
0.0
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
as Kate Brewster
2003
6.2
The Rage in Placid Lake
as Girl at Seminar
2003
6.4
It's All About Love
as Elena
2003
5.4
The Hours
as Julia Vaughan
2002
7.3
Igby Goes Down
as Sookie
2002
6.6
art21
as Herself - Host
2001
2.0
The Early Show
as Self
1999
6.2
Brokedown Palace
as Alice Marano
1999
6.4
Teen Choice Awards
as Self
1999
9.1
The Mod Squad
as Julie Barnes
1999
4.3
Les Misérables
as Cosette
1998
7.2
Polish Wedding
as Hala
1998
5.0
The Rainmaker
as Kelly Riker
1997
7.0
U Turn
as Jenny
1997
6.6
Romeo + Juliet
as Juliet
1996
6.8
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
as Rachel Lewis
1996
5.4
I Love You, I Love You Not
as Daisy / Young Nana
1996
5.0
The Daily Show
as Self
1996
6.4
Home for the Holidays
as Kitt Larson
1995
6.2
How to Make an American Quilt
as Young Glady Joe
1995
6.4
🎬
The Pesky Suitor
as Lisa
1995
0.0
Little Women
as Beth March
1994
7.3
My So-Called Life
as Angela Chase
1994
7.6
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
1993
7.2
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self
1993
7.2
🎬
Geoffrey Beene 30
1993
0.0
🎬
Lifestories: Families in Crisis
1992
3.8
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
as Self
1992
5.4
Law & Order
as Tracy Brandt
1990
7.4
Biography
as Self
1987
6.5
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
1975
7.0
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
Today
as Self
1952
5.6
The Emmy Awards
as Self
1949
7.9
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee / Presenter
1944
7.2
🎬
The Spot
N/A
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