
Claire Danes
Claire Danes is an American actress. She played Angela Chase in My So-Called Life, for which she received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Television Series Drama. Danes has appeared in films such as Romeo + Juliet alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, and The Family Stone. She is also known for her television roles in Homeland, Fleishman Is in Trouble, and the Apple Original series The Essex Serpent. Danes won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Miniseries or Television Film and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie for her performance in Temple Grandin.
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- Selected Shorts Problems without Solutions

This week on SELECTED SHORTS, host Meg Wolitzer presents three stories about problems without solutions. In Elif Batuman’s “The Board,” read by Cindy Cheung, the protagonist has found the perfect apartment, but he has to satisfy a Kafka-esque co-op committee. Jesse Eisenberg imagines an irritating sibling with problems of global proportions in ““My Little Sister Texts Me with Her Problems,” read by real-life sisters Lacey Lamar and Amber Ruffin. And a patient is drawn to her therapist—but is this a bad thing? in Esther Freud’s “Transference,” read by Claire Danes. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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- FROM
- US
- BORN
- April 12, 1979