| Claire Danes  AKA Claire Catherine Danes
Born: 12-Apr-1979
Birthplace: New York City
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor Nationality: United States
Executive summary: My So-Called Life Claire Danes started taking acting lessons at the prestigious Lee Strasberg Institute when she was 11, and quickly won a role as a molested child in a film student's short film, Dreams of Love. At 14, she turned down a small role in Schindler's List to star in the TV teen drama, My So-Called Life. The show attracted a small but loyal audience but hovered near the bottom of the ratings, as Danes made her feature film debut playing Winona Ryder's younger sister in the 1994 remake of Little Women. After several supporting roles, she starred in I Love You, I Love You Not opposite Jude Law and Romeo + Juliet opposite Leonardo DiCaprio.
In 1998, after filming Brokedown Palace in the Philippines, Danes told reporters on the film's promotional tour that Manila was a "ghastly and weird city" that "smelled of cockroaches, with rats all over, and there is no sewerage system, and the people do not have anything -- no arms, no legs, no eyes." Oddly, these remarks did not go over well in the Philippines, where most people actually do have arms and legs and flush toilets.
Father: Christopher Danes (software consultant, industrial photographer)
Mother: Carla Danes (painter, daycare provider)
Brother: Asa Danes (b. 1973, editor, Brooklyn Journal of International Law)
Boyfriend: Andrew Dorff (rock musician, brother of Stephen Dorff, dated 1994-96)
Boyfriend: Matt Damon (dated 1996)
Boyfriend: Ben Lee (Australian musician, dated 1997-2003)
Boyfriend: Billy Crudup (dated 2003-)
High School: Los Angeles Lycee Francais, Los Angeles, CA
High School: Dalton School, Manhattan, NY
University: Yale University (three years)
Risk Factors: Smoking
TELEVISION
My So-Called Life Angela Chase (1994-95)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Stardust (9-Aug-2007)
Evening (9-Jun-2007)
The Family Stone (2-Dec-2005)
Shopgirl (9-Sep-2005)
Stage Beauty (08-May-2004)
The Rage in Placid Lake (28-Aug-2003)
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (30-Jun-2003)
It's All About Love (10-Jan-2003)
The Hours (18-Dec-2002)
Igby Goes Down (23-May-2002)
Brokedown Palace (13-Aug-1999)
The Mod Squad (17-Mar-1999)
Les Miserables (1-May-1998)
Polish Wedding (16-Jan-1998)
The Rainmaker (21-Nov-1997)
U Turn (27-Aug-1997)
Romeo + Juliet (1-Nov-1996)
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday (18-Oct-1996)
I Love You, I Love You Not (28-Aug-1996)
Home for the Holidays (3-Nov-1995)
How to Make an American Quilt (6-Oct-1995)
Little Women (21-Dec-1994)
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