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Claire Danes

Claire Danes
Claire Catherine Danes, born on April 12, 1979, is a Golden Globe Award-winning and Emmy Award-nominated American film, television, and theatre actress.

Most known for the television series, My So-Called Life, and the films, Romeo + Juliet, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines and Stardust.


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Claire Danes - news / articles


  • Danes to team up with Gere - 8 September 2005
    Claire Danes is expected to appear alongside Richard Gere in a thriller called The Flock.-Gere will play the role of a federal agent, with Danes his understudy, as the pair hunt down a missing girl who might be connected to a sex offender under their investigation.-Th

Claire Danes - what members say


  • Romeo And Juliet
  • Romeo And Juliet review by from Cornwall
    Rated - 5 stars Thumbs way up 15 September 2003
    ...rk I?ve ever seen. The young & yummy Leonardo DiCaprio and lovely & lithesome Claire Danes play the star-crossed lovers in this modern undertaking set in a beautiful and ...  
  • Igby Goes Down
  • Igby Goes Down review by from london, england
    Rated - 3 stars interesting 2 February 2004
    ...ide. susan sarandon's performance was brilliant as always. it was good to see Claire Danes in the picture also. i guess this would be high end culture in the style of je...  
  • Terminator 3 - Rise Of The Machines
  • Terminator 3 - Rise Of The Machines review by from London
    Rated - 3 stars Such a Shame 2 July 2004
    ... Shame Nick Stahl had to play John Connor, Edward Furlong was a young genius. Claire Danes is terrible and is poorly cast. I hear that there might be a 4th, I just hope ...  

Claire Danes - filmography


  • Me and Orson Welles (2008)
    Starring: Ben Chaplin,  Claire Danes,  Zac Efron
    Director: Richard Linklater
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    New York, 1937: RICHARD SAMUELS (17) is bored with school and dreams of treading the boards on Broadway. After a chance encounter with a theatre company outside a derelict theatre, The Mercury, Richard soon finds himself inside chatting with Orson Welles, the Director of Broadways first ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 82% from 10 members
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  • Stardust - HD DVD Version (2007)
    Starring: Claire Danes,  Charlie Cox,  Michelle Pfeiffer
    Director: Matthew Vaughn
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Director Matthew Vaughn (LOCK, STOCK, AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS) takes his experience with credible crime capers and applies it to the fantasy genre in this charming but not too precious adaptation of Neil Gaiman's novel. The many threads of the story intertwine seamlessly, unfolding at an unforced ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 77% from 1,312 member
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  • The Flock on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Richard Gere,  Claire Danes,  Ed Ackerman
    Director: Andrew Lau
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    This film is about a hyper-vigilant employee of the department of public safety who, while training his young female replacement, has to track down a missing girl who he is convinced is connected to a paroled sex offender he is investigating.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 5,267 members
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  • Evening on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Claire Danes,  Toni Collette,  Vanessa Redgrave
    Director: Lajos Koltai
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    A drama exploring the romantic past and emotional present of Ann Grant and her daughters, Constance and Nina. As Ann lays dying, she remembers, and is moved to convey to her daughters, the defining moments in her life 50 years prior, when she was a young woman. Harris is the man Ann loves in the ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 57% from 4,067 members
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  • Shopgirl on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Claire Danes,  Steve Martin,  Jason Schwartzman
    Director: Anand Tucker
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In adapting his popular novella to the big screen, Steve Martin chooses director Anand Tucker (HILARY AND JACKIE), whose artful eye (along with the film's stunning costumes, dramatic score, and brilliant set design) brings the book's detailed characters beautifully to life. Recalling her breakout ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 18,780 members
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  • Stage Beauty on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Claire Danes,  Billy Crudup,  Rupert Everett
    Director: Richard Eyre
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In the seventeenth century the roles of women in live theatre are played by men and one of the most famous is Ned Kynaston. When Charles II tires of the same old faces he decides to allow real women on the stage. Overnight Ned becomes a nobody and heads towards suicide until an actress named Maria ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 58% from 7,368 members
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  • The Hours on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Nicole Kidman,  Allison Janney,  Meryl Streep
    Director: Stephen Daldry
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Based on the Pulitzer-prize winning novel by Michael Cunningham, THE HOURS employs Virginia Woolf's classic novel and central character, MRS. DALLOWAY, as its foundation and inspiration. Spanning three different eras, during one day, the film focuses on the parallel lives of three women joined in ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 20,237 members
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  • The Mod Squad on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Claire Danes,  Giovanni Ribisi,  Omar Epps
    Director: Scott Silver
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A trio of juvenile delinquents (Claire Danes, Omar Epps, and Giovanni Ribisi) are recruited by a cop to help infiltrate an underground drug ring. When, he is unexpectedly killed, the group go all out to solve his murder and bust the drug cartel. Their efforts are made harder when they suffer ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 311 members
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  • Polish Wedding on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Lena Olin,  Gabriel Byrne,  Claire Danes
    Director: Theresa Connelly
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A comedy about a Polish family who is struggling with their libidos. Jadzia, though happily married to her husband, is having a serious affair with Roman. Meanwhile, her daughter Chala has lost her virginity to a neighbor and has become pregnant in the process. Family hijinx ensue.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 313 members
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  • Les Miserables on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Liam Neeson,  Geoffrey Rush,  Uma Thurman
    Director: Bille August
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Liam Neeson stars as Jean Valjean, a heartless convict who is transformed by a single act of mercy. Uma Thurman is Fantine, the vulnerable prostitute who begs Valjean to raise her only child, Cosette (Claire Danes). And Oscar-winner Geoffrey Rush is an ambitious policeman determined to return ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 1,115 member
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  • U-Turn on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Sean Penn,  Jennifer Lopez,  Nick Nolte
    Director: Oliver Stone
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Oliver Stone shelved his social conscience while making this vicious nest-of-vipers noir. Sean Penn stars as Bobby Cooper, a gambler on the run who is forced to lay up in a desolate Arizona whistlestop with car trouble. Desperate and broke, he receives an offer from the middle-aged Jake McKenna (..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 3,014 members
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  • I Love You, I Love You Not (1996)
    Starring: Jeanne Moreau,  Claire Danes,  Jude Law
    Director: Billy Hopkins
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Prep school student Daisy and her European-born grandmother Nana share the sad stories of their lives: Daisy tells Nana of her romance with young Ethan and problems in school because she's Jewish; and Nana tells of her young years under Nazis when she was sent to ghetto and then to concentration camp.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 26 members
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Claire Danes facts

5 most recent films

Me and Orson Welles - 4.0 stars
Stardust - HD DVD Version - 4.0 stars
The Flock - 3.0 stars
Evening - 3.0 stars
Stardust - 4.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

The My So Called Life - Complete Series - 4.0 stars
Stardust - HD DVD Version - 4.0 stars
Stardust - 4.0 stars
Princess Mononoke - 4.0 stars
Law And Order - Third Series - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

I Love You, I Love You Not - 2.5 stars
Me and Orson Welles - 4.0 stars
It's All About Love - 2.0 stars
Polish Wedding - 2.5 stars
The Mod Squad - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Paul Sorvino - 4 times - show films
Pete Postlethwaite - 3 times - show films
Rupert Everett - 3 times - show films
John Leguizamo - 3 times - show films
Leonardo DiCaprio - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Baz Luhrmann - 3 times - show films
Jonathon Mostow - 2 times - show films
Matthew Vaughn - 2 times - show films
Stephen Daldry - 1 times - show films
Hayao Miyazaki - 1 times - show films