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Claire Danes
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Claire Catherine Danes is an American actress. Prolific in film and television since her teens, she is the recipient of three Primetime Emmy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards. In 2012 and 2026, Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

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Claire Catherine Danes is an American film, stage, and television actor. Born in Manhattan in 1979, she began her work period in 1992. She is educated at Yale University, the Lycée Français de Los Angeles, the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, and HB Studio. Her native language is English.

Danes has received several awards, including a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Television Series Drama, a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie, a Satellite Award for Best Actress in a Miniseries or Television Film, and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Miniseries or Television Film. She is recognized in the Hollywood Walk Of Fame collection.

She is married to Hugh Dancy and was previously unmarried partner to Billy Crudup. They have three children.

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Manhattan, New York, USA

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…

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Instance of
human
Given name
Catherine
Gender
female
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Manhattan
Spouse
Hugh Dancy
Occupation
actor
Languages spoken
English language
Native language
English language
Award
Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year
Official website
www.clairedanes.org
Image
Claire Danes 2015 (facecrop).jpg
Number of children
3
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Claire Danes
date of birth
1979-04-12
start of work period
1992-00-00
birth name
Claire Catherine Danes
writing language
English language
name in native language
Claire Danes
unmarried partner
Billy Crudup
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Claire Catherine Danes (born April 12, 1979) is an American actress. Prolific in film and television since her teens, she is the recipient of three Primetime Emmy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards. In 2012 and 2026, Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

Danes first gained recognition for starring in the 1994 teen drama series My So-Called Life, winning a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama and receiving a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. She made her film debut in the same year in Little Women (1994), and gained wider fame for starring in the romance Romeo + Juliet (1996). Danes has since appeared in The Rainmaker (1997), Brokedown Palace (1999), The Hours (2002), Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003), Shopgirl (2005), and Stardust (2007). She appeared in an Off-Broadway production of The Vagina Monologues in 2000 and made her Broadway debut playing Eliza Doolittle in a 2007 revival of Pygmalion.

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