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Claire Danes
Claire Catherine Danes is an American actor. Prolific in film and television since her teens, she is the recipient of three Primetime Emmy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards. In 2012 and 2026, Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
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entertainment · American actor (born 1979) · film actor · stage actor · television actor · actor · also Claire Danes, Claire Catherine Danes, Danes
Born 12 April 1979 · Q867813
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2026· 4 entries
“smelled of cockroaches, with rats all over, and that there is no sewerage system, and the people do not have anything – no arms, no legs, no eyes”
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E! Online: Hugh Dancy Shares Secret to 20-Year Relationship With Claire Danes
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IndieWire: Claire Danes’ Two Favorite Scenes in ‘The Beast of Me’ Have One Key Thing in Common: Facing Off with Matthew Rhys
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2025· 3 entries
Yahoo: Claire Danes Felt Shame Over Being ‘So Old’ for Her Third Pregnancy
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TVLine: Claire Danes Reuniting With My So-Called Life Creator For New HBO Series
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Starred as author Aggie Wiggs in the Netflix psychological thriller The Beast in Me, opposite Matthew Rhys
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2023· 2 entries
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Danes starred in Steven Soderbergh's miniseries Full Circle on HBO Max
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2022· 1 entry
Danes replaced Keira Knightley as Cora Seaborn in the Apple TV drama series The Essex Serpent, based on the 2016 novel by Sarah Perry
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2019· 1 entry
“This business can be very erratic and intense … You can be the subject of great attention, both positive and negative. You really do have to tether yourself when you're a teen star. If you don't have that tether, then you're really lost.”
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2017· 1 entry
UPI: Topic: Claire Danes
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2015· 3 entries
People: Claire Danes on Backlash After Billy Crudup Left Mary-Louise Parker for Her: 'That Was a Scary Thing'
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Awarded Satellite Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama for Homeland (2015).
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Danes was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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2013· 4 entries
Awarded Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series for Homeland (2013).
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama for Homeland (2013).
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Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for Homeland (2013).
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Hosted the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo
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2012· 9 entries
Awarded Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Drama Actress for Homeland (2012).
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama for Homeland (2012).
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Awarded Satellite Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama for Homeland (2012).
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Awarded Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year (2012).
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Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for Homeland (2012).
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Awarded TCA Award for Individual Achievement in Drama for Homeland (2012).
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And 2026, Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world
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Danes's audiobook recording of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale was released at Audible
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Time magazine named Danes one of the 100 most influential people in the world
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2011· 1 entry
Awarded Satellite Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama for Homeland (2011).
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2010· 6 entries
Awarded Satellite Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film for Temple Grandin (2010).
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Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for Temple Grandin (2010).
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film for Temple Grandin (2010).
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Awarded Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie for Temple Grandin (2010).
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Danes returned to television starring in the HBO production of Temple Grandin, a biopic about the autistic animal scientist
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Danes portrayed the title character in the HBO film Temple Grandin for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie and the Golden Globe Award for Best Act
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2007· 3 entries
Appeared in the fantasy Stardust, which she described as a "classic model of romantic comedy"
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Danes made her Broadway theatre debut as Eliza Doolittle in the Roundabout Theatre Company revival of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, directed by David Grindley at the American Airlines Theatre
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Appeared in the drama film, Evening, and the thriller film, The Flock
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2005· 1 entry
When she starred in Shopgirl and The Family Stone
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2003· 1 entry
Danes began dating actor Billy Crudup, with whom she starred in Stage Beauty
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2002· 1 entry
Returned to film, starring in Igby Goes Down
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2000· 2 entries
Studied at Yale University (1998–2000).
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And made her Broadway debut playing Eliza Doolittle in a 2007 revival of Pygmalion
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1999· 1 entry
Made her first appearance in an animated feature with the English version of Princess Mononoke
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1998· 3 entries
Danes was declared persona non grata by Filipino officials
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In 1998, Danes was declared persona non grata by Filipino officials.
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Played several very different roles: Cosette in Les Misérables, and the pregnant teenage daughter of Polish immigrants in Polish Wedding
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1997· 4 entries
Awarded MTV Movie Award for Best Female Performance for Romeo + Juliet (1997).
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Danes wrote an introduction to Neil Gaiman's Death: The Time of Your Life
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Studied at Lycée Français de Los Angeles (1997).
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Danes played abused wife Kelly Riker in The Rainmaker, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, as well as Jenny in Oliver Stone's noir U Turn
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1996· 3 entries
Awarded London Film Critics Circle Award for Actress of the Year for Romeo + Juliet (1996).
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Awarded Young Artist Awards for To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday (1996).
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When she portrayed Juliet in the film Romeo + Juliet, inspiring director Baz Luhrmann to call her, at age 16, "the Meryl Streep of her generation"
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1995· 3 entries
Her higher profile led to being cast in several film roles, including 1995's Home for the Holidays and 1996's I Love You, I Love You Not and To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
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Starred in the Soul Asylum music video for "Just Like Anyone"
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Danes was the main character of Soul Asylum's music video for the song "Just Like Anyone"
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1994· 2 entries
Awarded Young Artist Awards for My So-Called Life (1994).
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama for My So-Called Life (1994).
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1993· 1 entry
At age 13, Danes got her first big job working on the Dudley Moore TV sitcom pilot called Dudley, which was shot at Silvercup Studios in Astoria, Queens
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1979· 2 entries
Born 1979-04-12.
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“s Death: The Time of Your Life. In 2012, Danes”
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