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Claire Catherine Danes (born on April 12, 1979 in New York City) is an American film actress. She is perhaps most famous 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, followed by her role as Juliet in Baz Luhrmann's 1996 film Romeo + Juliet. Danes attended the exclusive private high school Le Lycee Francais De Los Angeles in Los Angeles, California, and later attended Yale University (her father's alma mater) for two years as a Psychology major starting in 1998. She dropped out of Yale to focus on her film career.

For a number of years she and Australian singer Ben Lee dated, but their relationship ended in 2003. She is now dating Billy Crudup, who left his common-law spouse, actress Mary Louise Parker (who was 8 months pregnant with their child) for Danes. Danes and Crudup starred opposite each other in the English dubbed version of Princess Mononoke
and Stage Beauty
.

In 1999, while filming for Brokedown Palace
, she and all material related to her were “banned” from the Philippines after she publicly criticized the capital, Manila, as "ghastly" and "smells like cockroaches". She later apologized.

Her family

Mother: Carla Danes (day care provider, painter, textile designer, Claire's manager)
Father: Chris Danes (computer consultant, former architectural photographer)
Brother: Asa Danes (Oberlin College graduate, not-for-profit organizer)

Off-Broadway

Danes has appeared in Off-Broadway plays, including Happiness, Punk Ballet, and Kids On Stage, in which she choreographed her own solo dance.

Filmography

The Flock (2006)
Pushers Needed (2005)
The Family Stone
(2005) - Julie Morton
Shopgirl
(2005) - Mirabelle Buttersfield
Stage Beauty
(2004) - Maria
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
(2003) - Kate Brewster
The Rage In Placid Lake
(2003) - Girl at Seminar
It's All About Love
(2003) - Elena
The Hours
(2002) - Julia Vaughn
Igby Goes Down
(2002) - Sookie Sapperstein
Brokedown Palace
(1999) - Alice Marano
The Mod Squad
(1999) - Julie Barnes
Polish Wedding (1998) - Hala
Les Misérables
(1998) - Cosette
The Rainmaker (1997) - Kelly Riker
U Turn
(1997) - Jenny
Princess Mononoke
(1997) (voice)
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
(1996) - Rachel Lewis
William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996) - Juliet Capulet
I Love You, I love you not (1996)- Daisy/Young Nana
Home for the Holidays
(1995) - Kitt Larson
How to Make an American Quilt
(1995) - Young Glady Jo Cleary
Little Women (1994) - Beth March
Dreams of Love (1990)

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Actors - Claire Danes

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