Claire Danes Filmography

Claire Catherine Danes is an American television, stage and film actress. She has appeared in roles as diverse as Angela Chase in My So-Called Life, as Juliet in Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet, as Kate Brewster in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, as Yvaine in Stardust and as Temple Grandin in the HBO TV film Temple Grandin. She portrays Carrie Mathison in the Showtime series Homeland. Danes was born in Manhattan, New York City, New York. Her mother, Carla , is a day-care provider, painter, and textile designer who later served as her daughter's manager, and her father, Christopher Danes ,... is a computer consultant and former architectural photographer. Danes has described her background as being "as WASPy as you can get"; her paternal grandfather, Gibson Andrew Danes , was the dean of the art and architecture school at Yale University. She has an older brother, Asa .
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