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Claire Catherine Danes (born on April
12, 1979) is a Golden Globe Award-winning and Emmy
Award-nominated American film, television, and theater
actress.
Early life: Danes was born in Manhattan to Chris
Danes (a computer consultant and former architectural
photographer) and Carla (a day care provider, painter,
and textile designer who would later serve as Claire's
manager). She attended the Dalton School.
She has a brother, Asa, who graduated
from Oberlin College and works as a litigation attorney
for the law firm of Paul Hastings. Danes attended the
exclusive private high school Lycée Français de Los
Angeles in Los Angeles, California, and later attended
Yale University (her father's alma mater) for two years
as a psychology major, starting in 1998. She dropped out
of Yale to focus on her film career.
Career: Danes is perhaps most famous as Angela
Chase in the 1994 television drama series My So-Called
Life, for which she won a Golden Globe Award and
received an Emmy nomination, followed by her role as
Juliet in Baz Luhrmann's 1996 film William Shakespeare's
Romeo + Juliet.
Her first role in an animated feature came in 1999 with
the English version of Princess Mononoke. During the
same year, she took the lead role in Brokedown Palace,
alongside Kate Beckinsale and Bill Pullman.
She cites Meryl Streep as a mentor and major influence
in her acting.
In 2002, Danes starred opposite Susan Sarandon and
Kieran Culkin in Igby Goes Down. She later co-starred as
Meryl Streep's daughter in the Oscar-nominated The
Hours, with Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, and Ed
Harris. The following year, she was cast in Terminator
3: Rise of the Machines; and Stage Beauty, in 2004. She
earned critical acclaim in 2005 when she starred in
Steve Martin's Shopgirl alongside Martin and Jason
Schwartzman, and in The Family Stone opposite Sarah
Jessica Parker and Diane Keaton. In 2007, Danes will
appear in the fantasy epic Stardust opposite Michelle
Pfeiffer, Robert DeNiro, and Sienna Miller, and in The
Flock, opposite Richard Gere.
Danes appeared in Off-Broadway plays including
Happiness, Punk Ballet, and Kids On Stage, in which she
choreographed her own solo dance.
She also wrote the introduction to Neil Gaiman's Death:
The Time of Your Life. Danes also auditioned for the
role of Lois Lane in Superman Returns before the role
went to Kate Bosworth.
In March 2007, Danes appeared with Patrick Wilson in a
television commercial for the Gap in which the pair
dances to the song "Anything You Can Do" from
the musical Annie Get Your Gun.
Danes has recently appeared onstage at Manhattan's
PS122, an iconic avant-garde performance space, in a
series of dance pieces by the choreographer Tamar
Rogoff. Danes made her stage debut at PS122 as a child.
Personal life: After meeting at her birthday
party, she and Australian singer Ben Lee dated for
almost six years, but their relationship ended in 2003.
She dated her Stage Beauty and Princess Mononoke co-star
Billy Crudup, but the pair split in December 2006.
Tabloid photographs have recently linked Danes to
Evening co-star Hugh Dancy.
Additionally, she has dated Andrew Dorff, actor Stephen
Dorff's younger brother, and Matt Damon.
In Popular Culture: Due to her teen angst roles
in My So Called Life and Romeo + Juliet, Claire became a
sort of sex symbol for punk rock youth in the late
1990s. She was the inspiration of songs by punk bands
The Ataris (Claire Danes, "My So Called
Life"), Size 14 (Claire Danes Poster), Nice Guys
Finish Last (My So Called Strife), and Chocolate Honey
Monkey (Claire). Additionally, the Ataris wrote a song
expressing disdain for her then boyfriend Ben Lee in the
song, Ben Lee, You Suck. |
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