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Claire Danes

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Claire Danes
Fleishman Is In Trouble: Coming This Season
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New Yorker Claire Catherine Danes was born in Manhattan, the daughter of Carla (Hall), a day-care provider and artist, and Christopher Danes, a computer consultant and photographer. She has an older brother, Asa. Her paternal grandfather, Gibson Andrew Danes, was a Dean of the Yale School of Art and Architecture. She is of mostly German and British Isles descent.

Claire was educated at Dalton School, New York, The New York City Lab School for Collaborative Studies, The Professional Performing Arts School and Lycée Français de Los Angeles. From 1998, she attended Yale University, studying psychology, but dropped out after two years to concentrate on her acting career.

Danes first came to major public attention when she appeared as "Angela Chase" in My So-Called Life (1994). She won an Emmy nomination and a Golden Globe award for this performance. A successful film career followed, including the role of "Juliet", opposite Leonardo DiCaprio, in Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet (1996). She continued acting in such varied project as The Hours (2002), Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003) and Stardust (2007).

In 2010, she appeared in the HBO Production, Temple Grandin (2010), playing the title character. She received huge critical acclaim for the role, and won an Emmy, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award for her performance. Since 2011, she has starred on the SHOWTIME series Homeland (2011), receiving great critical acclaim and winning Emmys and Golden Globes.
BornApril 12, 1979
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Before They Were Famous: Actors' Early Roles

Before They Were Famous: Actors' Early Roles

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Claire Danes and Jesse Eisenberg in Fleishman Is in Trouble (2022)
Claire Danes, Jesse Eisenberg, Meara Mahoney Gross, and Maxim Swinton in Fleishman Is in Trouble (2022)
Claire Danes, Lizzy Caplan, and Jesse Eisenberg in Fleishman Is in Trouble (2022)
Claire Danes and Jesse Eisenberg in Fleishman Is in Trouble (2022)
Claire Danes and Jesse Eisenberg in Fleishman Is in Trouble (2022)
Claire Danes, Adam Brody, Lizzy Caplan, and Jesse Eisenberg in Fleishman Is in Trouble (2022)
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Claire Danes in Fleishman Is in Trouble (2022)
Claire Danes and Jesse Eisenberg in Fleishman Is in Trouble (2022)
Claire Danes and Kate Beckinsale in Brokedown Palace (1999)
Claire Danes and Kate Beckinsale in Brokedown Palace (1999)
Claire Danes and Mandy Patinkin in Homeland (2011)

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Claire Danes in My So-Called Life (1994)
My So-Called Life
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  • Angela Chase
Claire Danes in Homeland (2011)
Homeland
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TV Series
  • Carrie Mathison
Claire Danes, Leonardo DiCaprio, John Leguizamo, Jamie Kennedy, Dash Mihok, and Harold Perrineau in Romeo + Juliet (1996)
Romeo + Juliet
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  • Juliet
  • 1996
Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, and Meryl Streep in The Hours (2002)
The Hours
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  • Julia Vaughan
  • 2002

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  • Full Circle
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  • Fleishman Is in Trouble (2022)
    Fleishman Is in Trouble
  • Claire Danes and Tom Hiddleston in The Essex Serpent (2022)
    The Essex Serpent
  • Claire Danes in Homeland (2011)
    Homeland
  • Claire Danes, Octavia Spencer, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Jim Parsons, and Leo James Davis in A Kid Like Jake (2018)
    A Kid Like Jake
  • Brigsby Bear (2017)
    Brigsby Bear
  • Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein in Portlandia (2011)
    Portlandia
  • Aziz Ansari in Master of None (2015)
    Master of None
  • As Cool as I Am (2013)
    As Cool as I Am
  • Claire Danes in Temple Grandin (2010)
    Temple Grandin
  • Me and Orson Welles (2008)
    Me and Orson Welles
  • Richard Gere in The Flock (2007)
    The Flock
  • Claire Danes, Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Ricky Gervais, Mark Strong, and Charlie Cox in Stardust (2007)
    Stardust
  • Evening (2007)
    Evening
  • Claire Danes, Diane Keaton, Dermot Mulroney, Sarah Jessica Parker, Craig T. Nelson, Luke Wilson, and Rachel McAdams in The Family Stone (2005)
    The Family Stone
  • Claire Danes, Steve Martin, and Jason Schwartzman in Shopgirl (2005)
    Shopgirl

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  • Claire Danes in Homeland (2011)
    Homeland

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  • Claire Danes in Temple Grandin (2010)
    Temple Grandin
  • Evening (2007)
    Evening
  • Claire Danes, Winona Ryder, Susan Sarandon, Kirsten Dunst, and Trini Alvarado in Little Women (1994)
    Little Women
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    • April 12, 1979
    • Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
    • Hugh DancySeptember 2009 - present (2 children)
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  • Other works
    Music video: Appeared in Soul Asylum video "Just like Anyone," as a young girl with a deformity on her back. At the end, she grew wings and flew away.
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    • 11 Interviews
    • 24 Articles
    • 8 Pictorials
    • 54 Magazine Cover Photos

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    She turned down the role of Rose DeWitt Bukater in Titanic (1997) as she had just finished working with Leonardo DiCaprio on Romeo + Juliet (1996). Though she described working with him on that film as a "treat", she admitted in an interview later that if she had accepted the role in Titanic (1997), she would not have been able to get away from him.
  • Quotes
    [on co-star Kate Beckinsale and hoping to become friends] That was wrong. We didn't. She's complicated. She's prickly.
    • Homeland
      (2011)
      $110,000 /episode (2011-2012 season)

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