Claire
Catherine Danes (born on April 12, 1979) is a Golden Globe
Award-winning and Emmy Award-nominated American film, television,
and theater actress most known for the television series, My
So-Called Life, and the films, Romeo + Juliet, Terminator 3: Rise
of the Machines and Stardust. 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, followed with 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. In 2007, Danes
appeared in the fantasy epic Stardust, which she described as a
"classic model of romantic comedy", opposite Charlie
Cox, Michelle Pfeiffer, Robert De Niro, and Sienna Miller, and
will appear in The Flock, opposite Richard Gere. In March 2007,
Danes appeared with Patrick Wilson in a television commercial for
Gap in which the pair dances to the song "Anything You Can
Do" from the musical Annie Get Your Gun. On October 19, 2007,
Danes made her Broadway debut in the revival of George Bernard
Shaw's Pygmalion, starring as Eliza Doolittle ... more
