Claire Danes

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 SoCalled 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 OffBroadway 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