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