Claire Catherine Danes (born April 12, 1979)[1] is an American actress who first came to prominence with her role as Angela Chase in the 1994 series My So-Called Life.[2] The role won her the first of four Golden Globe Awards. She made her film debut the same year in Little Women (1994). Her other films include Romeo + Juliet (1996), The Rainmaker (1997), Les Misérables (1998), Brokedown Palace (1999), Igby Goes Down (2002), The Hours (2002), Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003), Shopgirl (2005) and Stardust (2007).
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 HBO TV film Temple Grandin, which won her a second Golden Globe and the first of three Emmy Awards. Since 2011, she has starred as Carrie Mathison in the Showtime series Homeland,[3][4] for which she has won two Emmys and two Golden Globes.[5][6] She has also won two Screen Actors Guild Awards.[7]
In 2015, Danes was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
