
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.
Coming Soon
- Georgia O’Keeffe: The Brightness of Light Documentary · Coming 1 June

With unprecedented access to O’Keeffe’s groundbreaking body of work, and voiced with poignancy and power by Claire Danes as Georgia O’Keeffe and narrated by Hugh Dancy, this film offers an in-depth, cinematic, and fresh portrait of the artist known as the “Mother of Modernism.” From her early struggles and artistic awakenings to her rise as a feminist icon and cultural force, The Brightness of Light is a journey through love, loss, and the radical independence that shaped O’Keeffe’s art and her legend. It features personal letters between O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, as well as contributions from the world’s leading experts on O’Keeffe, with the cooperation of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. Directed by Academy Award– and Emmy Award–winning Paul Wagner.
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About
- FROM
- US
- BORN
- April 12, 1979