Claire Danes
Born: 1979-04-12 in Manhattan, New York, USA
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2026
- Skip Intro as Self
2025
- The Beast in Me as Agatha 'Aggie' Wiggs
- The American Revolution as Abigail Adams (voice)
- Everybody Wants to Be Gen X as Self
2024
- In Vogue: The 90s as Self
- Georgia O'Keeffe: The Brightness of Light as Georgia O'Keeffe (voice)
2023
- Full Circle as Sam Browne
2022
- Fleishman Is in Trouble as Rachel Fleishman
- The Essex Serpent as Cora Seaborne
2019
- Back from the Brink: Saved from Extinction as Self - Narrator (voice)
2018
- A Kid Like Jake as Alex Wheeler
2017
- Brigsby Bear as Emily
2015
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
- The Late Late Show with James Corden as Self
- Master of None as Nina
2014
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self - Guest
- Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self - Guest
- Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
2013
- As Cool as I Am as Lainee Diamond
2012
- Ben Lee: Catch My Disease as Self
2011
- Homeland as Carrie Mathison
- Portlandia as Joan
- A Child's Garden of Poetry as Self - Narrator (voice)
2010
- Conan as Self
- Temple Grandin as Temple Grandin
2008
- The City
- Me and Orson Welles as Sonja Jones
2007
- Stardust as Yvaine
- Evening as Ann Grant
- The Flock as Allison Lowry
- Francis Ford Coppola Directs 'John Grisham's the Rainmaker' as Self
2005
- The Colbert Report
- The Family Stone as Julie Morton
- Shopgirl as Mirabelle
- Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast as Self - Presenter
- Seamless as Self
2004
- Stage Beauty as Maria
2003
- The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
- Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines as Kate Brewster
- Working Shakespeare
- It's All About Love as Elena
- The Rage in Placid Lake as Girl at Seminar
2002
- The Hours as Julia Vaughan
- Igby Goes Down as Sookie
2001
- art21 as Herself - Host
1999
- Brokedown Palace as Alice Marano
- The Early Show as Self
- The Mod Squad as Julie Barnes
- Teen Choice Awards as Self
1998
- Les Misérables as Cosette
- Polish Wedding as Hala
1997
- The Rainmaker as Kelly Riker
- U Turn as Jenny
1996
- The Daily Show as Self
- Romeo + Juliet as Juliet
- To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday as Rachel Lewis
- I Love You, I Love You Not as Daisy / Young Nana
1995
- The Actor Awards Presented by SAG-AFTRA as Self
- Home for the Holidays as Kitt Larson
- How to Make an American Quilt as Young Glady Joe
- The Pesky Suitor as Lisa
1994
- My So-Called Life as Angela Chase
- Little Women as Beth March
1993
- Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
- Geoffrey Beene 30
1992
- The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as Self
- Lifestories: Families in Crisis
- Dreams of Love as Edith Lammers
1990
- Law & Order as Tracy Brandt
1987
- Biography as Self
1975
- Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
1953
- The Oscars as Self
1952
- Today as Self
1949
- The Emmy Awards as Self
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee / Presenter