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Claire Catherine Danes (born April 12, 1979) is a Golden Globe Award-winning and Emmy Award-nominated American film, television, and theater actress most known for the television series My So-Called Life and the films Romeo + Juliet, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Stardust and Princess Mononoke. Claire Catherine Danes (born on April 12, 1979) is a Golden Globe Award-winning American film, television, and theater actress.
BiographyEarly lifeDanes 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
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.[citation needed]
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" 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. Personal lifeAfter 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. ControversyFilming of "Brokedown Palace" in the capital of the Philippines, Manila, caused Danes to make several negative comments which resulted in being banned from any subsequent visits to the Philippines. Danes allegedly remarked that Manila was "ghastly and weird" and "smelled of cockroaches," in addition to derogatory remarks about East Asians. Danes, in her defense, explained her comments were misunderstood. [1] In popular cultureDue 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 90s. She was the inpiration of songs by punk bands The Ataris (Claire Danes), 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. FilmographyFilm
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Commercials
Music Videos
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