Claire Danes Net Worth

Claire Danes's Quotes

• [on co-star Kate Beckinsale and hoping to become friends] That was wrong. We didn't. She's complicated. She's prickly.
• I live in an adult world, but I'm a kid. I love the work. But I no longer have a group of friends to hang out with regularly.
• [on education vs. career] I was told that my going to college wouldn't be good for my career. I think that's nonsense. It's good to empower yourself by cutting yourself off from this business every once in a while.
• I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.
• My line about Arnold Schwarzenegger is that he doesn't get in his own way. He is not apologetic about achieving his goals. And when you have that attitude, it's amazing what one can accomplish. He wanted to give me relationship advice. I was having trouble with a female friend, and he said, "Be really forthright and do not accommodate her needs excessively." I took his advice and we're not friends anymore. So there you go.

Interesting Facts about Claire Danes

1. Completed two years at Yale University pursuing a psychology degree but never finished. [2002]
2. Chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World. [1997]
3. Flew to Los Angeles for the casting of Schindler's List (1993), after she was discovered for the role in My So-Called Life (1994). Steven Spielberg finally gave her the role which she had to turn down, because they were not willing to give her tutoring in the Polish language.
4. Was banned from the Philippines for making derogatory remarks about the country. The President of the Philippines condemned her publicly. [September 1998]
5. Auditioned for the role of Lisa Rowe in Girl, Interrupted (1999). The role went to Angelina Jolie which won her a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance.
6. Was considered for the title role in Lolita (1997), which went to Dominique Swain.
7. Auditioned and was the first choice for the role of Rose DeWitt Bukater in Titanic (1997).
8. The most frequently used title for articles about her has been "Great Danes".
9. Has at least four songs written about her. The Ataris' "My So Called Life" (album: "Look Forward to Failure" EP), Size 14's "Claire Danes Poster" (self-titled album), "The Five Mile Line"'s "Claire Danes" ("Busride Home" demo) and "Claire Danes", a low-fi indi ballad by "John Parker Music" which was released on Subversive Records Limited in 2004.
10. Her letter of recommendation to Yale University was written by Oliver Stone, her director on U Turn (1997).
11. Danes grew up in SoHo, Manhattan with Zac Posen and Julia Stiles. Her mother, Carla Hall, an artist, ran a daycare center in their SoHo loft, called "Danes Tribe". Her father, Chris, is a computer consultant and photographer. She has an one sibling, an older brother, Asa, who is a corporate lawyer. She began studying modern dance at the age of six. She played a duck in an avant-garde production involving stilt-walkers. By age 10, Danes was enrolled at Lee Strasberg's Theatre Institute and appeared in films by students attending the acting schools of New York and Columbia universities. For junior high, she briefly attended New York City Lab School from 1991-92 (Morena Baccarin was a classmate) but graduated from the Lycée Français (Los Angeles) in 1997 after her family relocated to California.
12. She and Billy Crudup became a couple during the filming of Stage Beauty (2004).
13. Is mentioned in actor Canyon Prince's song "Life" from his 2003 album "Live and Funked Up".
14. She turned down the role of Rose DeWitt Bukater in Titanic (1997) as she had just finished working with Leonardo DiCaprio on Romeo + Juliet (1996). Though she described working with him on that film as a "treat", she admitted in an interview later that if she had accepted the role in Titanic (1997), she would not have been able to get away from him.
15. Very close friends with actor Jason Schwartzman.
16. Baz Luhrmann, Danes' director for Romeo + Juliet (1996), referred to her as "the Meryl Streep of her generation".
17. She was awarded the Nova Award at the 2007 Maui film Festival.
18. As of Fall 2008, the exclusive model for Gucci Jewelry, succeeding Drew Barrymore.
19. Engaged to Hugh Dancy. They met on the set of Evening (2007). (September 2009) Married Hugh Dancy in France. [February 2009]
20. Danes and her husband, Hugh Dancy, have both played characters with Asperger's syndrome; she in HBO's Temple Grandin (2010) and he in Adam (2009).