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2026 · TV Show
as Self - Guest
Claire Danes
1979-04-12
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Manhattan, New York, USA
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
Everybody Wants to Be Gen X
2025 · Movie
as Self
The Beast in Me
2025 · TV Show
as Agatha 'Aggie' Wiggs
The American Revolution
2025 · TV Show
as Abigail Adams (voice)
Variety & CNN Actors on Actors
2025 · TV Show
as Self
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
2025 · TV Show
Georgia O'Keeffe: The Brightness of Light
2024 · Movie
as Georgia O'Keeffe (voice)
In Vogue: The 90s
2024 · TV Show
as Self
Full Circle
2023 · TV Show
as Sam Browne
The Essex Serpent
2022 · TV Show
as Cora Seaborne
Fleishman Is in Trouble
2022 · TV Show
as Rachel Fleishman
Back from the Brink: Saved from Extinction
2019 · Movie
as Self - Narrator (voice)
A Kid Like Jake
2018 · Movie
as Alex Wheeler
Brigsby Bear
2017 · Movie
as Emily
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · TV Show
as Self, Self - Guest
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015 · TV Show
as Self
Master of None
2015 · TV Show
as Nina
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014 · TV Show
as Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 · TV Show
as Self - Guest
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · TV Show
as Self - Guest
As Cool as I Am
2013 · Movie
as Lainee Diamond
Ben Lee: Catch My Disease
2012 · Movie
as Self
A Child's Garden of Poetry
2011 · Movie
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Homeland
2011 · TV Show
as Carrie Mathison
Portlandia
2011 · TV Show
as Joan
Temple Grandin
2010 · Movie
as Temple Grandin
Conan
2010 · TV Show
as Self
Me and Orson Welles
2008 · Movie
as Sonja Jones
The City
2008 · TV Show
Stardust
2007 · Movie
as Yvaine
Evening
2007 · Movie
as Ann Grant
The Flock
2007 · Movie
as Allison Lowry
Francis Ford Coppola Directs 'John Grisham's the Rainmaker'
2007 · Movie
as Self
Shopgirl
2005 · Movie
as Mirabelle
The Family Stone
2005 · Movie
as Julie Morton
Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast
2005 · Movie
as Self - Presenter
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Seamless
2005 · Movie
as Self
The Colbert Report
2005 · TV Show
Stage Beauty
2004 · Movie
as Maria
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
2003 · Movie
as Kate Brewster
It's All About Love
2003 · Movie
as Elena
The Rage in Placid Lake
2003 · Movie
as Girl at Seminar
Working Shakespeare
2003 · TV Show
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003 · TV Show
as Self
The Hours
2002 · Movie
as Julia Vaughan
Igby Goes Down
2002 · Movie
as Sookie
art21
2001 · TV Show
as Herself - Host
The Mod Squad
1999 · Movie
as Julie Barnes
Brokedown Palace
1999 · Movie
as Alice Marano
The Early Show
1999 · TV Show
as Self
Teen Choice Awards
1999 · TV Show
as Self
Les Misérables
1998 · Movie
as Cosette
Polish Wedding
1998 · Movie
as Hala
U Turn
1997 · Movie
as Jenny
The Rainmaker
1997 · Movie
as Kelly Riker
Romeo + Juliet
1996 · Movie
as Juliet
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
1996 · Movie
as Rachel Lewis
I Love You, I Love You Not
1996 · Movie
as Daisy / Young Nana
The Daily Show
1996 · TV Show
as Self
How to Make an American Quilt
1995 · Movie
as Young Glady Joe
Home for the Holidays
1995 · Movie
as Kitt Larson
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The Pesky Suitor
1995 · Movie
as Lisa
The Actor Awards Presented by SAG-AFTRA
1995 · TV Show
as Self
Little Women
1994 · Movie
as Beth March
My So-Called Life
1994 · TV Show
as Angela Chase
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Geoffrey Beene 30
1993 · Movie
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993 · TV Show
as Self - Guest, Self
Dreams of Love
1992 · Movie
as Edith Lammers
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992 · TV Show
as Self
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Lifestories: Families in Crisis
1992 · TV Show
Law & Order
1990 · TV Show
as Tracy Brandt
Biography
1987 · TV Show
as Self
Saturday Night Live
1975 · TV Show
as Self - Host
The Oscars
1953 · TV Show
as Self
Today
1952 · TV Show
as Self
The Emmy Awards
1949 · TV Show
as Self
Golden Globe Awards
1944 · TV Show
as Self - Nominee / Presenter
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RSC Meets USA: Working Shakespeare
· Movie
as Self
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The Spot
· TV Show
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Lovesick
· TV Show
as Annika
