Claire Catherine Danes is a film, television, and theater actress. She is perhaps most famous for her role 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, closely followed in prominence by her role as Juliet in Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 film “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. 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,” and the following year, was cast in “Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines” and “Stage Beauty.” She earned critical acclaim in 2005, when she starred in Steve Martin’s “Shopgirl” and in “The Family Stone.” 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.
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