Book Claire Danes

Claire Danes is an American actor whose career spans three decades of acclaimed film, television and stage work. She broke through as a teenager in My So-Called Life (1994), winning a Golden Globe, and made her film debut that year in Little Women (1994) before starring in Romeo + Juliet (1996). Her films include The Rainmaker (1997), Brokedown Palace (1999), The Hours (2002), Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003), Shopgirl (2005) and Stardust (2007). She played Eliza Doolittle in a Broadway revival of Pygmalion in 2007 and won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for the title role in HBO's Temple Grandin in 2010. As CIA officer Carrie Mathison on Showtime's Homeland from 2011 to 2020, she won two more Emmys and two more Golden Globes, along with a Screen Actors Guild Award. She has since starred in The Essex Serpent (2022), Fleishman Is in Trouble (2022) and The Beast in Me (2025), earning Emmy nominations for the latter two. With three Emmys and four Golden Globes, a Walk of Fame star in Hollywood and two Time 100 selections, she brings rare prestige and thoughtful presence to any stage.