Claire Catherine Danes was born on April 12,1979 and is an American actress.
45 Facts About Claire Danes
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Claire Danes made her film debut in the same year in Little Women, and gained wider fame for starring in the romance Romeo + Juliet.
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Claire Danes has since appeared in The Rainmaker, The Hours, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Shopgirl, and Stardust.
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Claire Danes appeared in an Off-Broadway production of The Vagina Monologues in 2000 and made her Broadway debut playing Eliza Doolittle in a 2007 revival of Pygmalion.
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Claire Danes's father worked as a residential general contractor in New York for 20 years in a company he ran called "Overall Construction".
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Claire Danes describes her ethnic origins as "WASPy as you can get".
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Claire Danes attended the New York City Lab School for Collaborative Studies in Manhattan.
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Claire Danes attended The Dalton School for one year of high school before moving with her parents to Santa Monica, California, for the role in My So-Called Life.
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Claire Danes graduated from the Lycee Francais de Los Angeles in 1997.
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Claire Danes started studying dance when she was six years old.
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Claire Danes took dance classes from Ellen Robbins at Dance Theater Workshop and acting classes at HB Studio the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute at the age of 10.
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Claire Danes appeared in theater and video productions in New York City.
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At age 13, Claire 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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Claire Danes appeared in an episode of HBO's Lifestories: Families in Crisis entitled "The Coming out of Heidi Leiter".
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Claire Danes then starred as the 15-year-old Angela Chase in the television drama series My So-Called Life.
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In 2010, Claire Danes starred in the HBO production of Temple Grandin, a biopic about the autistic animal scientist.
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From 2011 to 2020, Claire Danes starred in the Showtime series Homeland, in which she played Carrie Mathison, an agent of the CIA who has bipolar disorder.
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Claire Danes played Beth March in the 1994 film adaptation of Little Women.
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Claire Danes's first leading role on the big screen came in 1996, 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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In 1997, Claire 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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Claire Danes left her career temporarily to attend Yale, having made 13 films in five years.
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Claire Danes earned critical acclaim in 2005 when she starred in Shopgirl and The Family Stone.
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Claire Danes was featured in the 2008 film Me and Orson Welles.
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Claire Danes got her start in New York City theater appearing in performances of Happiness, Punk Ballet, and Kids Onstage, for which she choreographed her own dance.
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In September 2005, Claire Danes returned to New York's Performance Space 122, where she had performed as a child.
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Claire Danes was praised for her dance skills and acting in the project.
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In January, 2007, Claire Danes performed in Performance Space 122's Edith and Jenny.
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Later in 2007, Claire 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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In March, 2016, Claire Danes performed in Dry Powder by Sarah Burgess at The Public Theater, starring alongside John Krasinski, Hank Azaria and Sanjit De Silva.
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In 1995, Claire Danes was the main character of Soul Asylum's music video for the song "Just Like Anyone".
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In 1997, Claire Danes wrote an introduction to Neil Gaiman's Death: The Time of Your Life.
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In 2012, Claire Danes's audiobook recording of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale was released at Audible.
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Claire Danes's performance won the 2013 Audie Award for fiction.
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Claire Danes hosted the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo.
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In 2015, Claire Danes was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Claire Danes has been in therapy since the age of six and considers it "a helpful tool and a luxury to self-reflect and get some insight".
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In 1998, Claire Danes was declared persona non grata by Filipino officials.
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Restrictions imposed on Claire Danes involved a ban from entering Manila or the Philippines and prohibition on distribution of her films in the region.
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Claire Danes later apologized for those remarks, but they refused to lift the ban.
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Claire Danes is a long time supporter of DonorsChoose, a website that allows public school teachers to create project requests.
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Claire Danes is a feminist and has been critical of female underrepresentation within Hollywood.
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Claire Danes met singer Ben Lee at her eighteenth birthday party in 1997.
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In 2003, Claire Danes began dating actor Billy Crudup, with whom she starred in Stage Beauty.
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Claire Danes met actor Hugh Dancy on the set of the film Evening in 2006.
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In January 2023, Claire Danes revealed on the red carpet at the 80th Golden Globe Awards ceremony that she and Dancy are expecting their third child.