Profile | プロフィール
Born / 生年月日
January 12, 1979 | New York City, New York, USA
Age / 年齢
46 years old (as of 2025)
Occupation / 職業
Actress, Producer
女優、プロデューサー
Nationality / 国籍
American (アメリカ)
Biography | 経歴
[English] Claire Danes is one of the most formally accomplished and institutionally recognized performers in contemporary American screen and television. Her artistry is defined by a unique combination of internally driven emotional transparency and a capacity for total character inhabitation. From her breakout as the quintessential teenager Angela Chase in My So-Called Life (1994) to her iconic, decade-long commitment as Carrie Mathison in Homeland (2011–2020)—which earned her three consecutive Emmy Awards—Danes has consistently embraced roles of extreme psychological demand. Her biographical summit, Temple Grandin (2010), stands as a technical and emotional masterpiece, sweeping the Emmy, Golden Globe, and SAG Awards in a single year. With a career spanning three decades and marked by four Emmys and four Golden Globes, she remains the preeminent dramatic intelligence of her generation.
[日本語] クレア・デーンズは、アメリカの映画・テレビ界において、最も形式的に達成され、制度的にも極めて高く評価されている名優の一人です。彼女の演技の神髄は、内面から突き動かされるような「感情の透明性」と、役柄そのものに同化（インハビテーション）する類まれな能力の融合にあります。
10代の少女の揺れ動く内面を瑞々しく演じた***『マイ・ソー・コールド・ライフ』（1994年）での鮮烈なデビュー以来、彼女は常に精神的・感情的な負荷の高い難役に挑み続けてきました。特に『テンプル・グランディン』（2010年）での演技は、自閉症という独自の知覚世界を見事に体現し、同じ年にエミー賞、ゴールデングローブ賞、全米映画俳優組合（SAG）賞をすべて制覇するという、キャリア最高の伝記的頂点を築きました。また、『ホームランド』***（2011–2020年）では、エミー賞主演女優賞を3年連続で受賞するなど、アメリカのプレスティジ・ドラマ史上、最も持続的で過酷な役への献身を示しました。4度のエミー賞と4度のゴールデングローブ賞に輝くその軌跡は、同世代の女優の中でも群を抜く芸術的卓越性を証明しています。
Filmography | 主要出演作品
Feature Films — Selected (主要出演映画)
| Year | Title (English / Japanese) | Role | Director | Awards/Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Little Women / 若草物語 | Beth March | Gillian Armstrong | Winona Ryder / Susan Sarandon / Kirsten Dunst / Louisa May Alcott |
| 1996 | Romeo + Juliet / ロミオ+ジュリエット | Juliet | Baz Luhrmann | Leonardo DiCaprio / Golden Globe Best Drama Picture 🏆 / Contemporary setting / Shakespeare / Career international breakthrough |
| 1997 | The Rainmaker / レインメイカー | Kelly Riker | Francis Ford Coppola | Matt Damon / Danny DeVito / John Grisham / Legal drama |
| 1998 | Les Misérables / レ・ミゼラブル | Cosette | Bille August | Liam Neeson / Geoffrey Rush / Uma Thurman / Victor Hugo |
| 1999 | Brokedown Palace | Alice Marano | Jonathan Kaplan | Kate Beckinsale / Thailand prison / American tourists |
| 2002 | The Hours / めぐりあう時間たち | (did not appear; considered) | — | — |
| 2003 | Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines / ターミネーター3 | Kate Brewster | Jonathan Mostow | Arnold Schwarzenegger / Nick Stahl / $150.4M worldwide 🌍 |
| 2004 | Stage Beauty / ステージ・ビューティー | Maria | Richard Eyre | Billy Crudup / Period drama / Theater / 17th century |
| 2005 | Shopgirl / ショップガール | Mirabelle Buttersfield | Anand Tucker | Steve Martin / Jason Schwartzman / Steve Martin novella |
| 2007 | Evening / イヴニング | Ann Grant (young) | Lajos Koltai | Meryl Streep / Vanessa Redgrave / Toni Collette / Ensemble literary drama |
| 2007 | Stardust / スターダスト | Yvaine | Matthew Vaughn | Charlie Cox / Michelle Pfeiffer / Robert De Niro / Neil Gaiman / Fantasy |
| 2017 | A Kid Like Jake | Alex Wheeler | Silas Howard | Jim Parsons / Gender nonconforming child / Parents |
Television — Selected (テレビ — 主要出演)
| Year | Title | Network | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994–95 | My So-Called Life / マイ・ソー・コールド・ライフ | Angela Chase | ABC |
| 2010 | Temple Grandin | HBO | Emmy Best Actress — Limited Series 🏆 Golden Globe Best Actress — Limited Series 🏆 SAG Award Best Actress — TV Movie/Miniseries 🏆 / Mick Jackson director / Autism / Animal science / Career biographical summit |
| 2011–20 | Homeland / ホームランド | Carrie Mathison | Showtime |
| 2022 | Fleishman Is in Trouble | FX / Hulu | Emmy nom. Best Actress — Limited Series 🌟 / Jesse Eisenberg / Lizzy Caplan / Taffy Brodesser-Akner / Divorce / New York |
Awards & Recognition | 受賞歴
Emmy Awards (エミー賞)
Winner: 4 🏆
- Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series – Homeland (2012) 🏆
- Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series – Homeland (2013) 🏆
- Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series – Homeland (2014) 🏆
- Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie – Temple Grandin (2010) 🏆
Nominated: Multiple 🌟
- Homeland — Multiple additional nominations across Seasons 1–8
- My So-Called Life — Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series 🌟
- Fleishman Is in Trouble — Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series 🌟
Three consecutive Emmy wins in the same drama category (2012–2014) is one of the rarest distinctions in the history of the Emmy Awards for drama.
Golden Globe Awards
Winner: 2 🏆
- Best Actress in a Television Series — Drama – Homeland (2013) 🏆
- Best Actress in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television – Temple Grandin (2011) 🏆
Nominated:
- Best Actress in a Television Series — Drama – My So-Called Life (1995) 🌟
- Best Actress in a Drama – Romeo + Juliet (1997) 🌟
- Multiple additional Homeland nominations 🌟
Screen Actors Guild Awards
Winner: 2 🏆
- Outstanding Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries – Temple Grandin (2011) 🏆
- Outstanding Female Actor in a Drama Series – Homeland (2013) 🏆
Nominated: Multiple 🌟
Critics’ Choice Awards
Winner: 🏆
- Best Actress in a Movie Made for Television or Limited Series – Temple Grandin (2010) 🏆
- Best Actress in a Drama Series – Homeland (2012) 🏆
Satellite Awards
Winner: 🏆
- Multiple Satellite Awards for Homeland and Temple Grandin
Other Honours
- Three Emmy wins in consecutive years in the same drama series category (2012–2014) — one of only a handful of performers in the history of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences to achieve this distinction
- Temple Grandin sweep — Emmy, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild Award, Critics’ Choice Award in the same year — the most comprehensive single-year institutional recognition of her performing gifts in any single project
- Named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People during the peak of Homeland
Box Office Achievements | 興行成績
| Film | Worldwide Box Office |
|---|---|
| Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003) | $150.4 million |
| Stardust (2007) | $135.7 million |
| Romeo + Juliet (1996) | $46.3 million |
| Shopgirl (2005) | $10.0 million |
Note: Danes’s most formally accomplished and most institutionally recognized work has been produced for television; her commercial significance as a screen performer is most accurately measured by the sustained audience of Homeland across its eight-season run rather than by film box office performance.
