Claire Catherine Danes (born on April 12, 1979) is an American film, television and theatre actress

Biography

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Early life

Danes was born in Manhattan to Chris Danes (a computer consultant and former architectural photographer) and Carla (a day care provider, painter, and textile designer who works as Claire's manager), and is 5 ft 5 in tall. She has a brother, Asa, who graduated from Oberlin College and works as a not-for-profit organizer. 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.

Career

Danes 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.

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