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Birth name:Claire Catherine Danes. Born: April 12, 1979 Manhattan New York, New York, USA. Height: 5' 5" (1.66 m). Claire Danes biography: Danes was born in Manhattan to Christopher Danes, a computer consultant and former architectural photographer, and Carla, a day care provider, painter, and textile designer who would later serve as Claire's manager. Danes has described her background as being "as WASPy as you can get"; her paternal grandfather, Gibson A. Danes, was the dean of the art and architecture school at Yale University. She has a brother, Asa, who graduated from Oberlin College and works as a litigation attorney for the law firm of Paul Hastings. Danes attended the Dalton School in New York City, the Professional Performing Arts School in New York City, and the exclusive private high school Lyce Franais de Los Angeles in Los Angeles, California. In 1998, Danes went to Yale University (her father's alma mater; her grandfather Gibson Danes was former dean of Yale's School of Art and Architecture). After studying for two years as a psychology major, she dropped out of Yale to focus on her film career. Claire Danes Career: Danes is perhaps most famous for bringing Angela Chase to life 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 William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet. Her first role in an animated feature came in 1999 with the English version of Princess Mononoke. During the same year, she took the lead role in Brokedown Palace, alongside Kate Beckinsale and Bill Pullman. In 2002, Danes starred opposite Susan Sarandon and Kieran Culkin in Igby Goes Down. She later co-starred as Meryl Streep's daughter in the Oscar-nominated The Hours, with Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, and Ed Harris. The following year, she was cast in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines; and Stage Beauty, in 2004. She earned critical acclaim in 2005 when she starred in Steve Martin's Shopgirl alongside Martin and Jason Schwartzman, and in The Family Stone opposite Sarah Jessica Parker and Diane Keaton. Danes appeared in Off-Broadway plays including Happiness, Punk Ballet, and Kids On Stage, in which she choreographed her own solo dance. She also wrote the introduction to Neil Gaiman's Death: The Time of Your Life. Danes also auditioned for the role of Lois Lane in Superman Returns before the role went to Kate Bosworth. In March 2007, Danes appeared with Patrick Wilson in a television commercial for the Gap in which the pair dances to the song "Anything You Can Do" from the musical Annie Get Your Gun. Danes has recently appeared onstage at Manhattan's PS122, an iconic avant-garde performance space, in a series of dance pieces by the choreographer Tamar Rogoff. Danes made her stage debut at PS122 as a child. Starting in September, Danes will make her Broadway debut in the revival of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion starring as Eliza Doolittle. Claire Danes Personal life: After meeting at her birthday party, she and Australian singer Ben Lee dated for almost six years, but their relationship ended in 2003. She dated her Stage Beauty and Princess Mononoke co-star Billy Crudup, but the pair split in December 2006. Additionally, she has dated Andrew Dorff, actor Stephen Dorff's younger brother, and Matt Damon. Danes stated on the 27 June 2007 episode of Late Show with David Letterman that she is dating Evening co-star Hugh Dancy. Claire Danes In popular culture: Due to her "teen angst" roles in My So Called Life and Romeo + Juliet, Claire became a sort of sex symbol for punk rock youth in the late 1990s. She was the inspiration of songs by punk bands The Ataris (My So Called Life), Chocolate Honey Monkey (Claire), The Five Mile Line (Claire Danes), Nice Guys Finish Last (My So Called Strife), Size 14 (Claire Danes Poster), as well as John Parker Music (Claire Danes) and Lesser Birds of Paradise (Claire Danes, If You Ever Get A Nose Job, I Swear To Jesus I'll Hang Myself). Additionally, the Ataris wrote a song expressing disdain for her then-boyfriend Ben Lee (Ben Lee, You Suck). |
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