Born on April 12, 1979 in Manhattan, New York City, Claire Catherine Danes began her acting career in 1994 when she was in the TV series My So-Called Life. Danes then played Elizabeth in the film adaptation of Little Women and Home for the Holidays, before she got one of her best known roles as Juliet Capulet in the 1996 film Romeo + Juliet. Danes then lent her voice to the animated film Princess Mononoke before appearing in the films Brokedown Palace, Igby Goes Down, The Hours, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Stage Beauty, Shopgirl, The Family Stone and Stardust.

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