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