Claire Danes
Gender: Female
Born: 12th April 1979 (currently 33 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: My So-Called Life, Homeland
Movies: Brokedown Palace, Home for the Holidays, Igby Goes Down, It's All About Love, Les Misérables, Little Women, Shopgirl, Stage Beauty, Stardust, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, The Family Stone, The Mod Squad, The Rainmaker, Romeo + Juliet, I Love You, I Love You Not, Polish Wedding, Evening, The Flock, To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday, How to Make an American Quilt, Princess Mononoke, The Hours, U Turn, Me and Orson Welles, Temple Grandin, The Red Curtain Trilogy, The Rage In Placid Lake, Geoffrey Beene 30, A Child's Garden of Poetry, Seamless, The Pesky Suitor, As Cool As I Am, No Room for Opal, Dead Man's Jack
Claire Catherine Danes (born April 12, 1979) is an American television, stage and film actress. She has appeared in roles as diverse as Angela Chase in My So-Called Life, as Juliet in Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet, as Kate Brewster in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, as Yvaine in Stardust and as Temple Grandin in the HBO TV film Temple Grandin. She portrays Carrie Mathison in the Showtime series Homeland.
Danes was born in Manhattan, New York City, New York. Her mother, Carla (née Hall), is a day-care provider, painter, and textile designer who later served as her daughter's manager, and her father, Christopher Danes (b. May 6, 1944 in Austin, Texas), is a computer consultant and former architectural photographer. Danes has described her background as being "as WASPy as you can get"; her paternal grandfather, Gibson Andrew Danes (1910–1992 in Litchfield, Connecticut), was the dean of the art and architecture school at Yale University. She has an older brother, Asa (b. 1973).
Danes attended the Dalton School in New York City, the New York City Lab School for Collaborative Studies, the Professional Performing Arts School, and the Lycée Français de Los Angeles in Los Angeles,
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