Claire Danes

Acting

Born 1979-04-12 Manhattan, New York, USA 80 credits Primetime Emmy Awards 3 Golden Globe Awards 4 Screen Actors Guild Awards 2 Satellite Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama 3 Young Artist Awards 2 star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year 1

Awards

Won 3 Primetime Emmy Awards

Primetime Emmy Awards 3 won

2013 Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series Won Homeland
2012 Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series Won Homeland
2010 Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie Won Temple Grandin

Golden Globe Awards 4 won · 1 nominated

2023 Best Supporting Actress in a Limited Series/Anthology or Motion Picture Made for Television Nominated Fleishman Is in Trouble
2013 Best Actress – Television Series Drama Won Homeland
2012 Best Actress – Television Series Drama Won Homeland
2010 Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film Won Temple Grandin
1994 Best Actress – Television Series Drama Won My So-Called Life

Screen Actors Guild Awards 2 won

2013 Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series Won Homeland
2010 Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie Won Temple Grandin

Satellite Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama 3 won

2015 Best Actress – Television Series Drama Won Homeland
2012 Best Actress – Television Series Drama Won Homeland
2011 Best Actress – Television Series Drama Won Homeland

Young Artist Awards 2 won

1996 Young Artist Awards Won To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
1994 Young Artist Awards Won My So-Called Life

star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 won

— star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Won

Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year 1 won

2012 Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year Won

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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.