Claire Danes

Claire Catherine Danes (born April 12, 1979) is an American actress. Prolific in film and television since her teens, she is the recipient of two Actor Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards. She was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2015 and Time Magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2012 and 2026. Danes first gained recognition for starring in the 1994 teen drama series My So-Called Life, winning a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama and receiving a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. She made her film debut playing Beth March in Little Women (1994), and gained wider fame for starring as Juliet in the romance Romeo + Juliet (1996). She then acted in The Rainmaker (1997), Les Misérables (1998), Brokedown Palace (1999), The Hours (2002), Igby Goes Down (2002), Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003), Shopgirl (2005), The Family Stone (2005), Evening (2007), and Stardust (2007). Danes expanded her career on television portraying the title character in the HBO film Temple Grandin (2010) earning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie. She then portrayed Carrie Mathison in the Showtime drama series Homeland (2011–2020) for which she earned two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. She has since starred in the Apple TV series The Essex Serpent (2022) and the Max mystery series Full Series (2023) as well as the FX on Hulu miniseries Fleishman Is in Trouble (2022), and the Netflix thriller series The Beast in Me (2025), receiving Emmy Award-nominations for the latter two. On stage, Danes appeared in an Off-Broadway production of The Vagina Monologues (2000) and made her Broadway debut playing Eliza Doolittle in a 2007 revival of the George Bernard Shaw play Pygmalion. She has been married to fellow actor Hugh Dancy since 2009.

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