Claire Danes first entered the consciousness of American TV viewers in 1994, when she played Angela Chase in the TV drama My So-Called Life. This role landed her a Golden Globe, as well as an Emmy nomination. To date, the part of Angela Chase is still considered the memorable role that Claire Danes had in her entire career.
Claire Catherine Danes was born in Manhattan on April 12, 1979. She grew up in Los Angeles, California and attended an exclusive private school, Le Lycee Francaise De Los Angeles. She later went to Yale to study psychology in 1998, but she dropped out after two years so she could focus on her acting career.
Aside from playing Angela Chase, Claire Danes also appeared as the fragile Beth in Little Women alongside Winona Ryder, Kirsten Dunst and Susan Sarandon on 1994. In 1996, she played Juliet in the critically acclaimed Baz Luhrmann film Romeo + Juliet with Leonardo DiCaprio. She also lent her voice to San in the English dub of Princess Mononoke, a Studio Ghibli animated film that Disney distributed in the United States on 1999.
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