Acting
Claire Danes
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
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Series · 2026
Everybody Wants to Be Gen X
Film · 2025
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
Film · 2025
The Beast in Me
Series · 2025
The American Revolution
Series · 2025
Variety & CNN Actors on Actors
Series · 2025
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Series · 2025
Georgia O'Keeffe: The Brightness of Light
Film · 2024
In Vogue: The 90s
Series · 2024
Full Circle
Series · 2023
The Essex Serpent
Series · 2022
Fleishman Is in Trouble
Series · 2022
Back from the Brink: Saved from Extinction
Film · 2019
A Kid Like Jake
Film · 2018
Brigsby Bear
Film · 2017
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Series · 2015
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Series · 2015
Master of None
Series · 2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Series · 2015
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Series · 2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Series · 2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Series · 2014
As Cool as I Am
Film · 2013
Ben Lee: Catch My Disease
Film · 2012
A Child's Garden of Poetry
Film · 2011
Homeland
Series · 2011
Portlandia
Series · 2011
Temple Grandin
Film · 2010
Conan
Series · 2010
Me and Orson Welles
Film · 2008
The City
Series · 2008
Stardust
Film · 2007
Evening
Film · 2007
The Flock
Film · 2007
Francis Ford Coppola Directs 'John Grisham's the Rainmaker'
Film · 2007
Shopgirl
Film · 2005
The Family Stone
Film · 2005
Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast
Film · 2005
Seamless
Film · 2005
The Colbert Report
Series · 2005
Stage Beauty
Film · 2004
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
Film · 2003
It's All About Love
Film · 2003
The Rage in Placid Lake
Film · 2003
Working Shakespeare
Series · 2003
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Series · 2003
The Hours
Film · 2002
Igby Goes Down
Film · 2002
art21
Series · 2001
The Mod Squad
Film · 1999
Brokedown Palace
Film · 1999
The Early Show
Series · 1999
Teen Choice Awards
Series · 1999
Les Misérables
Film · 1998
Polish Wedding
Film · 1998
U Turn
Film · 1997
The Rainmaker
Film · 1997
Romeo + Juliet
Film · 1996
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
Film · 1996
I Love You, I Love You Not
Film · 1996
The Daily Show
Series · 1996
How to Make an American Quilt
Film · 1995
Home for the Holidays
Film · 1995
The Pesky Suitor
Film · 1995
The Actor Awards Presented by SAG-AFTRA
Series · 1995
Little Women
Film · 1994
My So-Called Life
Series · 1994
Geoffrey Beene 30
Film · 1993
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Series · 1993
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Series · 1993
Dreams of Love
Film · 1992
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Series · 1992
Lifestories: Families in Crisis
Series · 1992
Law & Order
Series · 1990
Biography
Series · 1987
Saturday Night Live
Series · 1975
The Oscars
Series · 1953
Today
Series · 1952
The Emmy Awards
Series · 1949
Golden Globe Awards
Series · 1944
RSC Meets USA: Working Shakespeare
Film
The Families Stone
Film
The Spot
Series
Lovesick
Series