Pasadora

Welcome to the Claire Danes Appreciation Thread!

Filmography:

As Cool As I Am (2012)
stars as Lainee Diamond

A Child's Garden of Poetry (2011) - TM
stars as (voice)

Homeland (2011) - TV
stars as Carrie Mathison

Temple Grandin (2010)
stars as Temple Grandin

Me and Orson Welles (2009)
stars as Sonja Jones

Evening (2007)
stars as Young Ann

Stardust (2007)
stars as Yvaine

The Flock (2007)
stars as Allison Laurie

Shopgirl (2005)
stars as Mirabelle Buttersfield

The Family Stone (2005)
stars as Julie Morton

Stage Beauty (2004)
stars as Maria

Terminator 3: Rise of The Machines (2003) aka T3
stars as Kate Brewster

The Rage In Placid Lake (2003)
stars as Girl at Seminar

It's All About Love (2003)
stars as Elena

The Hours (2002)
stars as Julia Vaughan

Igby Goes Down (2002)
stars as Sookie Sapperstein

Brokedown Palace (1999)
stars as Alice Marano

The Mod Squad (1999)
stars as Julie Barnes

Misérables, Les (1998) aka Misérables, Les (Germany)
stars as Cosette

Polish Wedding (1998)
stars as Hala

Mononoke-hime (1997) aka Princess Mononoke
stars as San, The Princess Mononoke

U Turn (1997) aka U Turn - Ici commence l'enfer (France)
stars as Jenny

The Rainmaker (1997) aka John Grisham's The Rainmaker
stars as Kelly Riker

Romeo + Juliet (1996) aka William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet
stars as Juliet

To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday (1996)
stars as Rachel Lewis

I Love You, I Love You Not (1996)
stars as Daisy/Young Nana

How to Make an American Quilt (1995)
stars as Young Glady Jo Cleary

Home for the Holidays (1995)
stars as Kitt Larson

The Pesky Suitor (1995)
stars as Lisa

Dead Man's Jack (1995)

Little Women (1994)
stars as Beth March

My So-Called Life (1994) - TV
stars as Angela Chase

No Room for Opal (1993) - TM
stars as Gail

Geoffrey Beene 30 (1993)
stars as Girl

Dreams of Love (1990)




Biography:

A native New Yorker, Danes was encouraged to pursue her interest in acting by artistic parents and began studying modern dance at age six. By age nine, she was taking weekend acting classes at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, later starting her performing career on the off-off-Broadway stage with supporting roles in "Happiness", "Punk Ballet" and "Kids on Stage," even choreographing a solo dance piece for the latter. At age 11, Danes made her film acting debut portraying a molested child in "Dreams of Love" (released 1992), a student short from director Jeffrey Mueller and executive producer Milos Forman. The precocious actress arrived on the small screen in a memorable 1992 guest shot on the NBC crime drama series "Law & Order", playing a volatile teen who, with her mother, was involved with a sleazy photographer. She also auditioned for "My So-Called Life" in 1992, at age 13, and filmed the pilot in early 1993. (It did not air until August 1994.)

Danes won strong notices for her feature debut as the doomed Beth in a well-received remake of Louisa May Alcott's classic novel "Little Women" (1994), with Susan Sarandon and Winona Ryder. Indeed, Spielberg hailed her as "one of the most exciting actresses to debut in ten years" and offered her a role in his Holocaust drama "Schindler's List" (1993) which Danes declined for a variety of reasons. When "My So-Called Life" ended prematurely, though, the young thespian was quickly deluged with feature offers. Danes next popped up in a flashback sequence playing a younger version of Anne Bancroft's character in the Ryder vehicle "How to Make an American Quilt" and followed up with a small role as the wise-beyond-her-years daughter of Holly Hunter (and granddaughter of Bancroft!) in Jodie Foster's "Home for the Holidays" (both 1995). Reportedly, Foster's endorsement helped Danes win the plum role of Juliet opposite Leonardo DiCaprio's Romeo in "William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet" (1996), a highly stylized and purposefully anachronistic retelling of the classic story. By the time of that highly touted release, she had two other features in the can. Danes played leads in "To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday" (1996) and "I Love You, I Love You Not" (1997). Respected filmmakers as Oliver Stone, cast her as a white trash princess in the odd "U-Turn" (1997), Francis Ford Coppola, hired her to play an abused wife who falls for young lawyer Matt Damon in "John Grisham's 'The Rainmaker'" (1997), and Bille August, whose adaptation of "Les Miserables" (1998) appropriately featured the young actress as Cosette.

Danes went on to play an appealingly strong-willed, unmarried and pregnant Polish-American alongside Gabriel Byrne and Lena Olin in the charming family saga "Polish Wedding" later that year. 1999 saw her take on a vastly different role than audiences had come to expect, with a starring turn as a drug offender turned crime fighter in Scott Silver's uninspired feature update of the hit 1960s TV series "The Mod Squad". Danes performed well in the action genre. Similarly, her impressive turn in "Brokedown Palace" went largely unseen. Not unlike a feminized, updated "Midnight Express", the harrowing film starred Danes as the more daring and gregarious of two recent high school graduates duped into importing drugs into Thailand. She next contributed her vocal talents to the English dubbing of Hayao Miyazaki's acclaimed Japanese anime "Princess Mononoke". Perhaps something was lost in the translation, but her lackluster performance in this capacity proved the actress' talents lie before the camera, where her proven skills and appeal would ensure her a long and illustrious career. In 2002, she co-starred in the comedy feature "Igby Goes Down," playing a prep school girl caught between two drastically different brothers; and portrayed Meryl Streep's daughter Julia in "The Hours."

Danes put her acting career on hold to enter Yale as a freshman in 1998, but as her academic career comes to a close, she has returned to the silver screen with a vengeance. In 2003, Danes appeared in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, the latest edition of the popular Terminator series. The actress is also set to star in the period drama Compleat Female Stage Beauty with Rupert Everett and Billy Crudup. In 2004, Danes will join Steve Martin in the adaptations of Martin's bestselling fiction novella, Shopgirl. Danes has been romantically linked with the likes of musicians Andrew Dorff and Australian rocker Ben Lee and actors such as Matt Damon and more recently Billy Crudup.

Bio from netglimpse.com

obthavariable

Thanks so much for opening and updating!!! LOVE HER!!!


I added in some gifs, but I'm not sure about the source. I found them on a role-player helper type blog, so who knows, but I guess that's okay.

Pasadora

Thanks for adding them.

obthavariable

This is a weird reason, but I kind of don't feel like catching up with "Homeland" right now because then I won't have all the GetGlue stickers of the current season. I went from being about a site where you get stickers, to being a stickler for getting all the stickers of a show. haha, me...

your creation

Thanks for the new one!

Pasadora

OB, weirdo.

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She looks so pretty there

Pasadora

Wow, almost didn't recognize her here.

your creation

She looks amazing!

obthavariable

That's me and that's why you like me

your creation

Best film

obthavariable

She's the best Juliet in my eyes forever.

your creation

She always will be

obthavariable

~

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So cute!