Claire Danes has established herself as one of Hollywood's leading actresses.
Danes first caught critics' and audiences' attention in the acclaimed series My So Called Life, which earned her an Emmy® Award nomination, and a Golden Globe® Award for her leading role as Angela Chase. A successful film career followed including the role of Juliet opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in Baz Luhrmann's Romeo and Juliet.
In 2007, Danes made her Broadway debut starring in George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion. Her performance as Eliza Doolittle was well reviewed by critics.
Danes is also an accomplished dancer and has received critical acclaim for her performances in Edith and Jenny and Christina Olson: American Model.
In 2010, Danes won an Emmy Award for her role in critically acclaimed biopic, Temple Grandin. She was also awarded a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award for the role.
Other film credits include As Cool as I Am, Me & Orson Welles, Shopgirl, Stardust and The Family Stone.
Claire Danes plays Carrie Mathison in Homeland. Learn more about her character:
Crack CIA agent Carrie Mathison is not above using unorthodox methods to do her job - uncovering terrorist threats in the Middle East. But a recently botched mission has left her unpopular within the Agency, and stripped her of her authority in the field. Carrie is haunted by her inability to predict the 9/11 attacks and determined to not let that happen again. Her apparently unfounded suspicions of Marine Sergeant Nicholas Brody and her unauthorised investigation of him put her career, her reputation, and possibly even her judgment to their ultimate test.
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