Cast & creator
Claire Danes
Best known for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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 series My So-Called Life. The role won her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress and a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. She made her film debut the same year in Little Women (1994). Her other films include Home for the Holidays (1995), Romeo + Juliet (1996), The Rainmaker (1997), Les Misérables (1998), Brokedown Palace (1999), the 1999 English dub of Princess Mononoke (1997), The Hours (2002), Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003), Shopgirl (2005), Stardust (2007), and A Kid Like Jake (2018). From 1998 to 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 portrayed Temple Grandin in the highly acclaimed HBO television film Temple Grandin, which won her a second Golden Globe and her first Primetime Emmy Award for the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie. From 2011 to 2020, she starred as Carrie Mathison in the Showtime drama series Homeland, for which she won two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, two Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress – Television Series Drama, and the Television Critics Association Award for Individual Achievement in Drama.
Also known as: Claire Catherine Danes
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film credits
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television credits
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1944–2026 · acting roles
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Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (89)
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The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self - Guest
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self
2015The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
2015
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self - Guest
2014
Law & Order
Tracy Brandt
1990
The Daily Show
Self
1996
Conan
Self
2010
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
1975
The Colbert Report
2005
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Self
2015
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest
1993Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self
1993
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Self
1992
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self
2003
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee / Presenter
1944
Homeland
Carrie Mathison
2011Homeland
Producer
2011Homeland
Co-Executive Producer
2011Homeland
Executive Producer
2011
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
2014
Portlandia
Joan
2011
The Oscars
Self
1953
Today
Self
1952
Biography
Self
1987
The Beast in Me
Agatha 'Aggie' Wiggs
2025The Beast in Me
Executive Producer
2025
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
Kate Brewster
2003
My So-Called Life
Angela Chase
1994
Master of None
Nina
2015
Romeo + Juliet
Juliet
1996
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Self - Guest
2025
The Early Show
Self
1999
Fleishman Is in Trouble
Rachel Fleishman
2022
The Actor Awards Presented by SAG-AFTRA
Self
1995
Full Circle
Sam Browne
2023
Stardust
Yvaine
2007
The American Revolution
Abigail Adams (voice)
2025
The Essex Serpent
Cora Seaborne
2022
In Vogue: The 90s
Self
2024
Little Women
Beth March
1994
The Rainmaker
Kelly Riker
1997
Variety & CNN Actors on Actors
Self
2025
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Herself - Host
2001
Brigsby Bear
Emily
2017
The Emmy Awards
Self
1949
The Family Stone
Julie Morton
2005
The Hours
Julia Vaughan
2002
U Turn
Jenny
1997
Les Misérables
Cosette
1998
Brokedown Palace
Alice Marano
1999
Skip Intro
Self - Guest
2026
Working Shakespeare
2003
How to Make an American Quilt
Young Glady Joe
1995
Temple Grandin
Temple Grandin
2010
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
Self
2025
The Flock
Allison Lowry
2007
Home for the Holidays
Kitt Larson
1995
Me and Orson Welles
Sonja Jones
2008Lifestories: Families in Crisis
1992
As Cool as I Am
Lainee Diamond
2013
Shopgirl
Mirabelle
2005
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
Rachel Lewis
1996
The Mod Squad
Julie Barnes
1999
A Kid Like Jake
Alex Wheeler
2018
Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast
Self - Presenter
2005
Igby Goes Down
Sookie
2002
The City
2008
Stage Beauty
Maria
2004
Evening
Ann Grant
2007Lovesick
Annika
Lovesick
Executive Producer
I Love You, I Love You Not
Daisy / Young Nana
1996
It's All About Love
Elena
2003
Everybody Wants to Be Gen X
Self
2025
A Child's Garden of Poetry
Self - Narrator (voice)
2011The Spot
Polish Wedding
Hala
1998
Francis Ford Coppola Directs 'John Grisham's the Rainmaker'
Self
2007
Seamless
Self
2005The Families Stone
Julie Morton
The Rage in Placid Lake
Girl at Seminar
2003
Ben Lee: Catch My Disease
Self
2012RSC Meets USA: Working Shakespeare
Self
Geoffrey Beene 30
1993
Back from the Brink: Saved from Extinction
Self - Narrator (voice)
2019
Teen Choice Awards
Self
1999
Dreams of Love
Edith Lammers
1992
Georgia O'Keeffe: The Brightness of Light
Georgia O'Keeffe (voice)
2024The Pesky Suitor
Lisa
1995