Claire Danes

At 45 years old, Claire Danes has this physical status:

Claire Catherine Danes (born April 12, 1979) is an American actress.

She is the recipient of three 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 TV 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.

Since 2011, she has starred as Carrie Mathison in the Showtime drama series Homeland, for which she has won two Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, two Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama, and the Television Critics Association Award for Individual Achievement in Drama.

Early life and education

Danes was born in Manhattan, New York City, the daughter of sculptor and printmaking artist, Carla Danes (née Hall), and photographer Christopher Danes. Her older brother, Asa, is a lawyer. During Danes's childhood, her mother ran a small toddler day care center called "Danes Tribe" out of the family's SoHo loft and later served as Danes's manager. Danes's father worked as a residential general contractor in New York for 20 years in a company he ran called "Overall Construction". He also worked as a photographer and computer consultant. Danes is named after her paternal grandmother, Claire Danes (née Tomowske). Danes describes her racial background as "WASPy as you can get".

The family lived in an artist's loft on Crosby Street. Danes attended P.S. 3 and P.S. 11 for elementary school and Professional Performing Arts School for junior high school. She attended the New York City Lab School for Collaborative Studies in Manhattan. She 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. They moved two days after the 1994 Northridge earthquake.

Danes graduated from the Lycée Français de Los Angeles in 1997. In 1998, she began studies at Yale University. After studying for two years as a psychology major, she dropped out to focus on her film career.

Personal life

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".

In 1998, Danes was declared persona non grata by the Filipino officials. The restriction involved a ban from entering Manila or the Philippines and prohibition on distribution of her films in the region. The ban came after Danes said Manila, the capital of the Philippines, "smelled of cockroaches, with rats all over, and that there is no sewage system, and the people do not have anything – no arms, no legs, no eyes". Danes later apologized for those remarks, but the Filipino authorities refused to lift the ban.

Danes and her mother are supporters of the charity Afghan Hands, which helps women in Afghanistan gain independence, education, and livable wages. Danes is also a long time supporter of DonorsChoose, a website that allows public school teachers to create project requests.

Danes is a feminist and has been critical of female underrepresentation within Hollywood.

Danes met singer Ben Lee at her eighteenth birthday party in 1997. They dated for six years before separating in 2003.

In 2003, Danes began dating actor Billy Crudup, with whom she starred in Stage Beauty. Their relationship attracted significant media attention, as it led to Crudup's break-up with actor Mary-Louise Parker, who was seven months pregnant with their child at the time. Danes and Crudup's relationship lasted until 2006. Reflecting on their relationship, Danes had commented in 2016, "That was a scary thing. It was really hard. I didn't know how to not do that. I was just in love with him, and needed to explore that, and I was 24 ... I didn't quite know what those consequences would be. But it's OK. I went through it."

Danes met actor Hugh Dancy on the set of the film Evening in 2006. They announced their engagement in February 2009 and married in France in a private ceremony later that year. They have two sons, born in 2012 and 2018.

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Acting career

Danes began studying dance when she was six years old. Ellen Robbins took dance lessons at Dance Theatre Workshop and acting classes at HB Studios' Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute at the age of 10. She appeared in theater and video productions in New York City. Even if she continued to dance, Danes said that by the time she was nine years old, her attention had shifted to acting. Milo Forman's audition when she was 11 led to her appearances in several student films. Karen Friedman, a writer for the Writers & Artists talent agency, joined her at age 12 as an agent.

Danes got her first big job on the Dudley Moore TV sitcom pilot called Dudley, which was shot at Silvercup Studios in Astoria, Queens. In the season three episode "Skin Deep," Danes played a teen murderer in a guest starring role. Heidi Leiter was featured in "The Coming out of Heidi Leiter," an episode of HBO's Life Stories: Families in Crisis. A pilot episode was fired in March 1993 when she was 13 years old. It would be almost another year and a half before the show was broadcast.

Angela Chase, a 15-year-old girl, appeared in the television drama My So Called Life. She received a Golden Globe Award and received an Emmy nomination for her work. Despite being cancelled after 19 episodes, My So-Called Life has a large fanbase. "Just Like Anybody" was her Soul Asylum music video in 1995.

Danes appeared in Temple Grandin, a documentary about the autistic animal scientist, in 2010. She received the 2010 Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie, the 2011 Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Television Film, or a Television Film and the 2011 Screen Actors Guild Outstanding Achievement by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries competition. The film was well received, and Grandin herself lauded Danes' performance.

Danes appeared in Homeland, the Showtime series Homeland in which she played Carrie Mathison, an CIA agent with bipolar disorder. For her appearance in a television series, she received the 2013 Golden Globe and the 2012 Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Television Series. She also received the 2012 and 2013 Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her role in Homeland. Danes was named one of the 100 most influential people in the country in 2012 by Time magazine.

Danes would direct the Apple drama series The Essex Serpent, replacing Keira Knightley as Cora Seaborne, on February 10, 2021.

In the 1994 film version of Little Women, Danes played Beth March. Despite ABC's cancellation of My So-Called Life in 1995, her higher profile led to her appearance in a number of 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.

She first appeared on television in 1996, when she played Juliet in the film Romeo + Juliet, sparking director Baz Luhrmann to call her "the Meryl Stender of her generation" at age 16. Later this year, it was revealed that she had renounced the female lead role in Titanic.

In 1997, Danes abused Kelly Riker in The Rainmaker, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, as well as Jenny in Oliver Stone's noir U Turn.

In 1998, she appeared in several different roles: Cosette in Les Misérables, and the pregnant teenage daughter of Polish immigrants in the Polish Wedding.

She made her first appearance in an animated film starring Princess Mononoke in 1999. Julie Barnes appeared in the big screen version of the 1970s television show The Mod Squad that same year. She appeared in Brokedown Palace before being cast in Brokedown Palace.

Danes left her career to Yale after making 13 films in five years. She returned to film in 2002. She appeared in Igby Goes Down. In the Oscar-nominated film The Hours later this year, Clarissa Vaughan's (played by Meryl Staughan) daughter co-starred. She appeared in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines in the first year, and Stage Beauty in 2004. When she appeared in Shopgirl and The Family Stone in 2005, she received critical acclaim. In 2007, she appeared in the fantasy Stardust, which she referred to as a "classic model of romantic comedy." Evening and the thriller film The Flock were two of her appearances in 2007. Me and Orson Welles, a 2008 film.

Danes got her start in theater in New York City, performing Happiness, Punk Ballet, and Kids On Stage, where she choreographed her own dance. In April, 2000, she appeared in Eve Ensler's The Vain Monologues off Broadway. In November of the same year, Emily Webb appeared in a one-night-only reading of Thornton Wilder's Our Town at All Saints' Episcopal Church in Beverly Hills. Bess Armstrong, who had appeared on My So-Called Life, was the product's staged actress.

Danes returned to the Performance Space 122 in New York in September 2005, where she had appeared as a child. She appeared in choreographer Tamar Rogoff's solo dance piece "Christina Olson: American Model," where she portrayed the subject of Andrew Wyeth's famous painting Christina's World. Olson was largely paralyzed as a result of physical injury that left her dehydrated and partially paralyzed. Danes was praised for her dancing skills and acting in the film.

Danes appeared in Edith and Jenny's Performance Space 122 in January, 2007. Danes made her Broadway debut in Eliza Doolittle's revival of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, directed by David Grindley at the American Airlines Theatre later in 2007.

Hasty Pudding Theatricals of Harvard University named Danes their 2012 Woman of the Year in January 2012.

Danes appeared in Dry Powder at The Public Theater in March, 2016, starring John Krasinski, Hank Azaria, and Sanjit De Silva. Thomas Kail directed the play.

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