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Claire Danes
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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 Awa…
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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.
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2026
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TV show Self - Guest
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2025
Variety & CNN Actors on Actors
TV show Self
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2025
Everybody Wants to Be Gen X
Movie Self
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2025
The American Revolution
TV show Abigail Adams (voice)
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2025
The Beast in Me
TV show Agatha 'Aggie' Wiggs
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2025
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
TV show Self - Guest
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2025
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
Movie Self
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2024
Georgia O'Keeffe: The Brightness of Light
Movie Georgia O'Keeffe (voice)
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2024
In Vogue: The 90s
TV show Self
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2023
Full Circle
TV show Sam Browne
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2022
Fleishman Is in Trouble
TV show Rachel Fleishman
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2022
The Essex Serpent
TV show Cora Seaborne
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2019
Back from the Brink: Saved from Extinction
Movie Self - Narrator (voice)
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2018
A Kid Like Jake
Movie Alex Wheeler
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2017
Brigsby Bear
Movie Emily
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2015
Master of None
TV show Nina
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2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV show Self
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2015
The Late Late Show with James Corden
TV show Self
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2014
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
TV show Self
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2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV show Self - Guest
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2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV show Self - Guest
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2013
As Cool as I Am
Movie Lainee Diamond
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2012
Ben Lee: Catch My Disease
Movie Self
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2011
Homeland
TV show Carrie Mathison
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2011
A Child's Garden of Poetry
Movie Self - Narrator (voice)
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2011
Portlandia
TV show Joan
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2010
Conan
TV show Self
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2010
Temple Grandin
Movie Temple Grandin
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2008
The City
TV show
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2008
Me and Orson Welles
Movie Sonja Jones
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2007
Stardust
Movie Yvaine
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2007
The Flock
Movie Allison Lowry
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2007
Evening
Movie Ann Grant
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2005
The Family Stone
Movie Julie Morton
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2005
Shopgirl
Movie Mirabelle
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2005
The Colbert Report
TV show
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2005
Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast
Movie Self - Presenter
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2005
Seamless
Movie Self
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2004
Stage Beauty
Movie Maria
