Claire Danes
| Claire Danes | |
|---|---|
 Danes at the 2015 PaleyFest | |
| Born |
Claire Catherine Danes April 12, 1979 Manhattan, New York, U.S. |
| Education |
Lycée Français de Los Angeles Yale University |
| Occupation | Actress, producer |
| Years active | 1992–present |
| Spouse(s) | Hugh Dancy (m. 2009) |
| Children | 1 |
Claire Catherine Danes (born April 12, 1979)[1] is an American actress, who first came to prominence with her role as Angela Chase in the 1994 series My So-Called Life.[2] The role won her the first of four Golden Globe Awards. She made her film debut the same year in Little Women (1994). Her other films include Romeo + Juliet (1996), The Rainmaker (1997), Les Misérables (1998), Brokedown Palace (1999), Igby Goes Down (2002), The Hours (2002), Shopgirl (2005) and Stardust (2007).
From 1998–2000, 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 starred in the title role of the HBO television film Temple Grandin, which won her a second Golden Globe and the first of three Emmy Awards. Since 2011, she has starred as Carrie Mathison in the Showtime series Homeland,[3][4] for which she has won two Emmys and two Golden Globes.[5][6] She has also won two Screen Actors Guild Awards.[7]
Early life
Danes was born in Manhattan, New York,[8] the daughter of a sculptor and printmaking artist, Carla Danes (née Hall),[9] and a photographer, Christopher Danes.[10] She has an older brother named Asa Danes, born in 1972, who is a lawyer.[1][11][12]
Danes's parents met when they were both studying at the Rhode Island School of Design.[8] Danes's mother was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey in 1945 and has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and Education from Rhode Island School of Design (1967), an Associate of Applied Science in Textile Design from Fashion Institute of Technology (1971), a Master's degree in Early Childhood Education from Hunter College (1987), and a Masters of Fine Arts from Otis College of Art and Design (2002).[11] During Danes's childhood her mother ran a small toddler day-care center called Danes Tribe out of the family's SoHo loft to supplement her work as a painter and textile designer, later serving as Danes's manager.[13] Danes's mother was always interested in art and early childhood development and education, stemming from being the eldest of five children, who she helped raise.[8]
Danes's father was born in Austin, Texas in 1944 and, after initially studying Biology and Civil Engineering at Brown University, received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from Rhode Island School of Design (1968), where he studied with Harry Callahan.[14] During Danes's childhood her father worked as a general contractor for 20 years, working on residential buildings in a company he ran called Overall Construction in New York.[8] He also worked as a photographer and computer consultant.[8] He is the son of Gibson Andrew Danes,[15] a former dean of Yale School of Art and Architecture from 1958 to 1968.[13] Danes is named after her paternal grandmother, Claire Danes (née Tomowske),[16] who died in 1953.[17]
The family lived in an artist's loft on Crosby Street.[18][19] Danes attended P.S. 3 and PS 11 for elementary school and Professional Performing Arts School for junior high school (during its first year of existence).[20] Danes also attended the New York City Lab School for Collaborative Studies in New York City (which her Homeland co-star Morena Baccarin also attended—and who also experienced bullying by a girl there).[8] She attended The Dalton School for one year of high school before moving with her parents to Santa Monica, California for the role in My So-Called Life – her brother was at Oberlin College at this point.[8] Danes said they moved two days after the 1994 Northridge earthquake, experiencing "all of those aftershocks – which were kind of strange but kind of felt like the subway was rumbling." She described it as a time of transition, somewhat like a metaphor for the shift in family direction as the family adjusted to a new life in California.[8]
Danes eventually graduating from the Lycée Français de Los Angeles in 1997, but said that this involved "a lot of tutoring,"[8] that her more regular high school experiences and references came from her time at Dalton.[21][22]
In 1998, Danes went to Yale University. Director Oliver Stone wrote her letter of recommendation. After studying for two years as a psychology major, she dropped out of Yale to focus on her film career.[8]
She has described her background as being "as WASPy as you can get".[23]
Career
Danes initially started studying dance when she was six years old.[24] Danes took dance classes from Ellen Robbins at Dance Theater Workshop and acting classes at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute at the age of ten.[24] From the Dance Theater Workshop class with Robbins, Danes got cast by theater scouts for local avante-garde New York City theater and video productions.[8] Although she continued to dance, Danes said that her focus shifted to acting by the time she was nine years old.[13]
Her best friend Ariel Rogoff (whose mother is choreographer Tamar Rogoff) did a student film under the tutelage of Miloš Forman who was teaching at Columbia University and they needed child actors; young Rogoff was not interested in another film but Danes was. That was her first audition, at age 11, with Forman. This led to work on a cluster of other student films.[8]
Growing up Danes thought she wanted to be a therapist. She says that being an actress is ideal because it merges her interest in psychology and being an artist.[8] She got signed by agent Karen Friedman at the Writers & Artists talent agency at the age of 12.[8]
Television
At age 13, Danes's first big job was working on the Dudley Moore TV sitcom pilot called Dudley, which was shot at Silvercup Studios in Astoria, Queens.[8]
Danes played a teenage murderer in a guest starring role on Law & Order in the season three episode "Skin Deep." She also appeared in an episode of HBO's Lifestories: Families in Crisis entitled "The Coming out of Heidi Leiter". In March 1993, a pilot episode was shot, when Danes was 13 years old. It would be almost another year and a half before broadcast.
She then starred as the 15-year-old Angela Chase in the television drama series My So-Called Life,[25] starring in the show and providing voiceovers for 17 of the series' 19 episodes, including the pilot episode. For her role, she won a Golden Globe Award and received an Emmy nomination. Despite being canceled after only 19 episodes, My So-Called Life has developed a large cult following.[26] In 1995, she starred in the Soul Asylum music video for "Just Like Anyone".
In 2010, Danes starred in the HBO production of Temple Grandin, a biopic about the eponymous woman with autism. She won the 2010 Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie, the 2011 Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film and the 2011 Screen Actors Guild Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries award. The film was well received and Grandin herself praised Danes's performance.[27]
Since 2011, Danes has starred as Carrie Mathison in the Showtime series Homeland in which she plays an agent of the CIA who, unbeknownst to her employer, has bipolar disorder.[28] Her character believes a United States Marine Corps war hero is planning a terrorist attack while being tapped for high-profile government service. The series costars Mandy Patinkin and Damian Lewis. She won the 2013 Golden Globe and the 2012 Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Television Series for her performance. She also won the 2012 and 2013 Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her performance in Homeland.[29] In 2012, TIME magazine named Danes one of the 100 most influential people in the World.[30]
Film
Danes played Beth March in the 1994 film adaptation of Little Women. Although ABC canceled My So-Called Life in 1995, the show helped her to receive more film roles,[19] including 1995's Home for the Holidays and 1996's I Love You, I Love You Not and To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday. Her first leading role on the big screen came in 1996, when she portrayed Juliet in the 1996 film Romeo + Juliet,[19] inspiring director Baz Luhrmann to call her, at age 16, "the Meryl Streep of her generation."[28] Later that year, it was reported that she turned down the female lead role in Titanic.[31][32] Danes said that, while she may have been considered for the part, she was never offered the role.
In 1997, Danes worked alongside two acclaimed directors. She played abused wife Kelly Riker in The Rainmaker, directed by Francis Ford Coppola,[19] as well as the dim-witted Jenny in Oliver Stone's noir U Turn. In 1998, she played several very different roles: Cosette in Les Misérables, and the pregnant teenage daughter of Polish immigrants in Polish Wedding. In 1999, she made her first appearance in an animated feature with the English version of Princess Mononoke. That same year, she played the role of Julie Barnes in the big screen adaptation of the 1970s TV show The Mod Squad, and took the lead role in Brokedown Palace.
Danes left her career temporarily to attend Yale, having made 13 films in five years.[19] In 2002, she returned to film. She starred in Igby Goes Down. Later that year, she co-starred as Clarissa Vaughan's (played by Meryl Streep) daughter in the Oscar-nominated film The Hours. The following year, she was cast in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, followed by Stage Beauty in 2004. She earned critical acclaim in 2005 when she starred in Shopgirl and The Family Stone. In 2007, she appeared in the fantasy Stardust, which she described as a "classic model of romantic comedy".[33] She appeared in the drama film Evening and The Flock. She was also featured in the film Me and Orson Welles.
Theater
Danes got her start in New York City theater appearing in performances of Happiness, Punk Ballet, and Kids Onstage, for which she choreographed her own dance. In April 2000, she appeared off Broadway in Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues. In November of that same year, she appeared as Emily Webb in a one night only staged reading of Thornton Wilder's Our Town at All Saint's Episcopal Church in Beverly Hills. The production was staged by Bess Armstrong, who had played the mother of Danes's character on My So-Called Life.[34]
In September 2005, Danes returned to New York's Performance Space 122, where she had performed as a child. She appeared in choreographer Tamar Rogoff's solo dance piece "Christina Olson: American Model", where she portrayed the subject of Andrew Wyeth's famous painting Christina's World. Olson suffered from muscular deterioration that left her weak and partially paralyzed. "Tamar Rogoff uses her unique body-centric methodology to explore the ideas, spirit and physicality of a woman both rejected and revered."[35] Danes was praised for her dance skills and acting in the project.[36][37]
In January 2007, Danes performed in Performance Space 122's Edith and Jenny. In the two person dance performance, Danes and Flavin revisited their film and dance roots: "Danes and Flavin encounter their eleven-year-old selves on screen, captured in their respective film debuts, Claire as Edith in Dreams of Love, and Ariel as Jenny in Coyote Mountain. Rites of passage unfold in fragments revealing the complexities of two fictional families. The lines between screen and stage, life and art, are blurred as Edith and Jenny, Danes and Flavin, form an alliance, stepping through and beyond their films and the fates of their families."[38]
Later in 2007, Danes made her Broadway theatre debut as Eliza Doolittle in the Roundabout Theatre Company revival of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, directed by David Grindley at the American Airlines Theatre.[39]
In January 2012, Harvard University's Hasty Pudding Theatricals announced that they would honor Danes as their 2012 Woman of the Year.[40]
Other work
In 1997, Danes wrote an introduction to Neil Gaiman's Death: The Time of Your Life.[41]
In 2012, Danes's audiobook recording of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale was released at Audible.com. Her performance was nominated for a 2013 Audie Award in the Fiction category.
She hosted the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo.[42]
Personal life
Before she had her first kiss in real life, she had her first on-screen one in an episode of My So-Called Life.[43]
Danes met Australian singer Ben Lee at her birthday party in 1997—they dated for almost six years. Their relationship ended in 2003.[44] In 2004, Danes began a relationship with former Stage Beauty co-star, Billy Crudup, that lasted until 2006.[45]
Danes met actor Hugh Dancy on the set of Evening in 2006 in Newport, Rhode Island. They began dating and announced their engagement in February 2009.[46] They married in France in a secret ceremony in late August or early September 2009.[47] They have a son born on December 17, 2012.[48]
Danes and her mother are supporters of the charity Afghan Hands, "a non-profit organization that supports disadvantaged and disenfranchised women in Afghanistan gain independence, education, and livable wages."[49] Danes is also a long time supporter of Donorschoose.org, a website that allows public school teachers to create project requests. Donors then choose what projects inspire them, and help to fund those projects.[50][51][52]
She lives in the West Village neighborhood of New York City.[53]
Filmography
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Little Women | Beth March | |
| 1995 | How to Make an American Quilt | Glady Jo Cleary | |
| 1995 | Home for the Holidays | Kitt Larson | |
| 1996 | I Love You, I Love You Not | Daisy / Young Nana | |
| 1996 | To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday | Rachel Lewis | |
| 1996 | Romeo + Juliet | Juliet Capulet | |
| 1997 | U Turn | Jenny | |
| 1997 | The Rainmaker | Kelly Riker | |
| 1998 | Les Misérables | Cosette | |
| 1998 | Polish Wedding | Hala | |
| 1999 | The Mod Squad | Julie Barnes | |
| 1999 | Brokedown Palace | Alice Marano | |
| 1999 | Princess Mononoke | San | Voice (English dub) |
| 2002 | Igby Goes Down | Sookie Sapperstein | |
| 2002 | The Hours | Julia Vaughan | |
| 2003 | It's All About Love | Elena | |
| 2003 | The Rage in Placid Lake | Girl at seminar | |
| 2003 | Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines | Kate Brewster | |
| 2004 | Stage Beauty | Maria | |
| 2005 | Shopgirl | Mirabelle Buttersfield | |
| 2005 | The Family Stone | Julie Morton | |
| 2007 | Evening | Young Ann | |
| 2007 | Stardust | Yvaine | |
| 2007 | The Flock | Allison | |
| 2008 | Me and Orson Welles | Sonja Jones | |
| 2013 | As Cool as I Am | Lainee Diamond |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Law & Order | Tracy Brandt | Episode: "Skin Deep" |
| 1994 | Lifestories: Families in Crisis | Katie Leiter | Episode: "More Than Friends: The Coming Out of Heidi Leiter" |
| 1994–1995 | My So-Called Life | Angela Chase | |
| 1997 | Saturday Night Live | Host | Episode: "Claire Danes/Mariah Carey" |
| 2010 | Temple Grandin | Temple Grandin | |
| 2011–present | Homeland | Carrie Mathison | Also Producer |
Stage
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | The Vagina Monologues | Westside Theatre | |
| 2005 | Christina Olson: American Model | Christina Olson | Performance Space 122 |
| 2007 | Edith and Jenny | Edith | Performance Space 122 |
| 2007 | Pygmalion | Eliza Doolittle | American Airlines Theatre |
Awards and nominations
References
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- ↑ Bellafante, Gina (28 October 2007). "A Teenager in Love (So-Called)". New York Times. Retrieved 16 August 2014.
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- ↑ Usborne, Simon (4 May 2012). "Claire Danes: Actress has finally found her true home". The Independent. Retrieved 16 August 2014.
- ↑ "Bios: Claire Danes". Emmys. Retrieved 16 August 2014.
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- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 8.7 8.8 8.9 8.10 8.11 8.12 8.13 8.14 Maron, Marc (4 August 2014). "Episode 520 - Claire Danes" (AUDIO INTERVIEW - PODCAST). WTF with Marc Maron. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
- ↑ "Carla Danes - New Work". Carla Danes. Retrieved 17 August 2014.
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- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 Lyman, Rick (29 January 2010). "No More Crushes; This Is Serious". New York Times. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
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Portland (Districts 1-219), Multnomah, Oregon, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 0032, sheet 5A, family 158, NARA microfilm publication T626, roll 1949
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Spokane, Spokane, Washington, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 0105, sheet 6A, family 39, NARA microfilm publication T626, roll 2518.
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- ↑ "Claire Danes bring range to autistic animal expert in 'Temple Grandin'". Los Angeles Daily News. 6 February 2010. Retrieved 14 August 2010.
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- ↑ "Titanic. Man Overboard! After a production as lavish and pricey as the doomed ship itself, James Cameron finally unveils his epic film. But will it be unsinkable?". Entertainment Weekly. 7 November 1997. pp. 1–7. Retrieved 24 January 2010.
- ↑ Thorpe, Vanessa (3 March 2012). "Claire Danes: getting under the skin of Homeland's troubled CIA agent". The Guardian (London). Retrieved 21 November 2012.
- ↑ "MSCL cast reunited in Our Town (2000)". MSCL.com. 15 May 2002. Retrieved 14 August 2010.
- ↑ "Christina Olson, American Model". Performance Space 122. Retrieved 8 January 2013.
- ↑ Stern, Carrie (2 October 2005). "Christina Olsen: American Model". Dance Magazine. Retrieved 14 August 2010.
- ↑ Deborah Jowitt (20 September 2005). "A Star Dances". The Village Voice. Retrieved 14 August 2010.
- ↑ "Performance Space 122 > Performance Page". PS122. Retrieved 14 August 2010.
- ↑ Stoynoff, Natasha (22 October 2007). "Claire Danes - Pygmalion". People. Retrieved 30 August 2014.
- ↑ "Claire Danes honored by Hasty Pudding Theatricals". Broadway World. Retrieved 23 January 2012.
- ↑ "Death: The Time Of Your Life Collection". Neil Gaiman Bibliography. Retrieved 14 August 2010.
- ↑ "Homeland-stjerne skal lede Nobelkonserten". nrk.no. 31 October 2013. Retrieved 31 October 2013.
- ↑ "DVD Report – Being 15 isn't all it's cracked up to be". Boston Globe. 28 October 2007.
- ↑ Blackman, Guy (15 May 2005). "Tomorrow belongs to Ben". The Age (Melbourne).
- ↑ http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1112/15/pmt.01.html
- ↑ Zuckerman, Blaine (6 February 2009). "Claire Danes & Hugh Dancy Are Engaged!". People. Retrieved 10 April 2010.
- ↑ "Claire Danes and Hugh Dancy Wed". People. 28 September 2009.
... tied the knot in a quiet ceremony in France a few weeks ago ...
- ↑ Garcia, Jennifer; Messer, Lesley (19 December 2012). "Claire Danes and Hugh Dancy Welcome Son Cyrus Michael Christopher". People. Retrieved 19 December 2012.
- ↑ "Afghan Hands - About Us". Afghan Hands. Retrieved 16 August 2014.
- ↑ http://www.donorschoose.org/blog/2011/05/05/claire-danes-favorite-teacher/
- ↑ http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/viewChallenge.html?id=234&home=true
- ↑ http://www.accesshollywood.com/zac-efron-and-claire-danes-team-with-senator-to-aid-schools_article_7458
- ↑ David, Mark (24 April 2013). "Claire Danes Snags NYC Townhouse". Variety. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
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