Claire Danes
Acting
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.
Known for
Acting79
tvSkip Intro
2026
Self - Guest
tvThe American Revolution
2025
Abigail Adams (voice)
tvThe Beast in Me
2025
Agatha 'Aggie' Wiggs
movieGeorgia O'Keeffe: The Brightness of Light
2024
Georgia O'Keeffe (voice)
tvFull Circle
2023
Sam Browne
tvFleishman Is in Trouble
2022
Rachel Fleishman
tvThe Essex Serpent
2022
Cora Seaborne
movieBack from the Brink: Saved from Extinction
2019
Self - Narrator (voice)
movieA Kid Like Jake
2018
Alex Wheeler
tvLate Night with Seth Meyers
2014
Self - Guest
tvThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
Self - Guest
movieAs Cool as I Am
2013
Lainee Diamond
tvHomeland
2011
Carrie Mathison
movieA Child's Garden of Poetry
2011
Self - Narrator (voice)
tvPortlandia
2011
Joan
tvConan
2010
Self
movieTemple Grandin
2010
Temple Grandin
movieMe and Orson Welles
2008
Sonja Jones
movieStardust
2007
Yvaine
movieThe Flock
2007
Allison Lowry
movieEvening
2007
Ann Grant
movieThe Family Stone
2005
Julie Morton
movieShopgirl
2005
Mirabelle
movieShelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast
2005
Self - Presenter
movieTerminator 3: Rise of the Machines
2003
Kate Brewster
movieThe Rage in Placid Lake
2003
Girl at Seminar
movieThe Hours
2002
Julia Vaughan
movieIgby Goes Down
2002
Sookie
tvart21
2001
Herself - Host
movieBrokedown Palace
1999
Alice Marano
movieThe Mod Squad
1999
Julie Barnes
movieLes Misérables
1998
Cosette
movieThe Rainmaker
1997
Kelly Riker
movieU Turn
1997
Jenny
movieRomeo + Juliet
1996
Juliet
movieTo Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
1996
Rachel Lewis
movieI Love You, I Love You Not
1996
Daisy / Young Nana
movieHome for the Holidays
1995
Kitt Larson
movieHow to Make an American Quilt
1995
Young Glady Joe
movieLittle Women
1994
Beth March
tvMy So-Called Life
1994
Angela Chase
tvLate Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
Self - Guest / Self
movieDreams of Love
1992
Edith Lammers
tvLaw & Order
1990
Tracy Brandt
tvBiography
1987
Self
tvSaturday Night Live
1975
Self - Host
tvThe Oscars
1953
Self
tvToday
1952
Self
tvGolden Globe Awards
1944
Self - Nominee / Presenter
Lovesick
Annika
Production3
tvThe Beast in Me
2025
Executive Producer
tvHomeland
2011
Producer, Co-Executive Producer, Executive Producer
Lovesick
Executive Producer