Claire Danes

Why what?

we all wonder how she a star??

she a Harvey gal???

[Quote] she a Harvey gal???

Why do you ask?

I just listened to a Dax Shepard podcast with her. She is so pretentious she was intolerable. Hate her.

Also I start at the Equinox on Greenwich Avenue. She is really short and shaped like a pear.

I was expecting to see her looking like shit, but she looks good in that photo. And I'm not particularly a fan of her overwrought acting (hated Homeland)

R4 Dax interviews the craziest women on the planet. It's like he goes out of his way to find nut jobs. Can you imagine Claire Danes and Mandy Patinkin on a bad day together? Some TV show sets must be hell on Earth.

On Armchair Expert Claire was acting grand lady, faux humble while throwing out as many five syllable words as she could come up with. She also claimed to have been offered Kate Winslet‘s role in Titanic. She said she didn’t regret turning it down, which must be total bullshit. Im sure she’s having nightmares about that career mistake to this day.

nose = baked potato.

In a fecent Terry Gross interview she sounded like a rattled schizo on the verge of tears. I've never liked her in anything.

R7 I don't know about that. I don't think she got along with Leo during Romeo + Juliet.

R9-You must have liked her in MY SO CALLED LIFE

Because Hugh Michael Horace Dancy has to drop a load into something.

She's not a bad actress, but I don't find her likeable. On a superficial level, she has a man's jaw like Gisele. It's not helping.

I like Danes just fine as a low-key actress & personality, and generally have no objection to her screenwork though it does little for me personally. I even think she photographs well at times.

However, as a fan of sci-fi and in particular the TERMINATOR movies I haven’t quite forgiven her for her take on Kate Brewster. She really was terrible in RISE OF THE MACHINES, delivering every line at the same fraught level with no variation and making the same shocked face in every frame. Don’t get me wrong, I like that the casting didn’t go with a Megan Fox type for the part; but going in the opposite direction was Danes the best choice? She somehow even had negative chemistry with Nick Stahl, too, but maybe that wasn’t her fault.

Claire Forlani gave a good audition for the role of Kate, and Cameron originally went with Sophia Bush over Danes for final cast. Cameron nixed Bush at the last second though, because he worried she was too immature and fresh-faced for the story & aesthetic of the movie.

[quote]On Armchair Expert Claire was acting grand lady, faux humble while throwing out as many five syllable words as she could come up with.

She was like that on Fresh Air with Terry Gross.

I did smile when she used "fungible" in way that made it clear she had no idea what the word means.

I was disappointed that Terry Gross didn't take her to task for tanking "My So Called Life" after one season.

Danes really screwed the rest of the cast and crew.

She is so pretentious.

And when she said, "I'm friends with Lena Dunham" I was done.

I find her very curiously sexless. There’s not a male lead I believe her opposite in a romantic or erotic part.

Is it that she can’t do it, or doesn’t want to?

R18 I agree.

r18, can't do what?

Some people just come across as chilly and remote. I find Nicole Kidman to be the same way.

My So Called Life was a good show, although I tried to watch it again later and both Angela and her mother were irritating AF. I've never been able to stand Bess Armstrong. Such a fucking ham.

I tried to watch Season 1 of Homeland, and got bored, mostly because of her. Hard to believe it is now on its 10th season. How?

And Terry must have been inwardly rolling her eyes at Clare during the FA interview last week.

R20 apologies, I ought to have been clearer. I meant to ask; is the problem with her performances that she isn’t able to convincingly convey heterosexual desire, or that she isn’t *willing* to convey it? And in either case, why might that be?

To my recollection reviewers and certain IMDB users have said the same about her, as have posters here, so it isn’t just me picking nits. To be clear, this isn’t to say she’s a poor or useless actress; some performers have a body of fine work that is based on this very gimmick (cf. Tilda Swinton) or, as you say of Kidman, a quality that makes them distinct in the industry.

Danes would not hit up against this as a stumbling block if she had more apt roles.

The only thing I've seen her in was Romeo + Juliet. I thought she was a wonderful Juliet, dramatic yet natural (which must be hard when working with Shakespearean dialogue), and absolutely gorgeous. Her face has become quite harsh though. OP's picture must be at least a decade old.

Agreed R24, she was a wonderful Juliet.

She seems really insufferable and full of herself. Although she is married to hottie Hugh Dancy, Will Graham from Hannibal, so she must have something going on...

Since we're on the topic of Claire, let's not forget her stealing Billy Crudup from Mary-Louise Parker when she was 7 months pregnant (and they had been together for 12 years.) Granted, Billy was a total asshole, but Claire is accountable too. She finally opened up about that situation and here is the gist of what she said: "I was in love and needed to explore that...I was 24. It's ok, I went through it." WOW what a self-absorbed cunt. YOU went through it?? What exactly did you go through? The world justifiably hating you for being a selfish home-wrecking little bitch?

She lucked out in getting cast in My So-Called Life when young. While there's nothing special about her, she's perfect in the role and the show gaining a following later on cemented her to cult status. It also helped that she won the role in Romeo + Juliet a couple of years later, a movie that is iconic among girls and gays born between 1978-1984.

Also, she would look better with a different hair color. That bright blonde makes her features look more harsh. A softer blonde, or even going darker, would work wonders.

She has REALLY ugly cry face.

She’s THAT girl in your High School class. You know the one.

R31 Like a Tracy Flick, except she's too cool and subversive to run for student body president. But just as full of herself.

There's no way she regrets turning down Titanic. The writing and acting in some scenes is high-school play level amateurish.

Artist spawn grew up in Soho then California - fancy schools, Lycée Francais and Yale. How do you expect her NOT to be pretentious. She doesn't have beauty, so. She has to cling to SOMETHING!

Is her husband Dancy a closet mo?

Grande Lady Danes certainly would not have entertained the vulgar and crass nudity in that trite ship film when she was a mere damsel of eighteen years old.

I always liked her, starting with MSCL. Then she made me watch a movie with Leo in it, something that almost never happens. And then she went on to score some of the world's best—and my favorite—dick IRL. Just looking at Billy Crudup long enough makes my eyes roll back in my head, in a good way. Same with Hugh Dahncy.

I always figured she was blessed by some kind of heavenly power that eludes 99.9% of us. I find her quite beautiful, unlike some of you.

I do wonder what her actual hair color is, though.

I think her natural hair color is the light brown in the first scene of MSCL before she dyes her hair Crimson Glow.

She was always a mediocre actress. She can't even do voice acting. Anyone here see Princess Mononoke? Her voice acting was awful.

Well I think she’s wonderful and said so on the Great Danes thread!

I was on the set of Homeland a few months ago when they filmed a long hospital scene in Long Beach on a Sunday morning. There was about five minutes of dialogue with Claire and another actress, and Claire knew that shit inside and out. She was able to start from any word at any time for hours.

She was wearing a wig in Romeo + Juliet. There's a behind the scenes video on the DVD where you can see what her own hair looked like at the time - a blonde bob. Not sure if the blonde was her natural color.

I always wondered why they gave her a wig. Maybe they thought longer hair was more suitable for Juliet, and/or they wanted a stronger contrast between her and Leo. A blonde boy and a brunette girls looks better on screen than two blondes. This might also have been the motivation for having Leo dye his hair a very light blond for that role (which I thought looked shit).

Her cry face was natural seeming when she was a kid and just ridiculous now that shes older. It still cracks me up how overhyped she was during her MSCL days but Jordan Catalano has an oscar and she doesnt. Nobody wouldve predicted that then especially since Jordan barely even talked.

R14 holy shit at Sophia almost getting that role. She could have pulled it off.

R35 Before they were married, there were lots of stories about Dancy. He seemed rather indiscriminate in his hook-ups and didn't care who knew. In person, she is taller and better looking than she appears on screen.

Claire was raised by artsy, elite Manhattan intellectuals, and, despite her background, is not nearly as intelligent as she'd like you think she is. She's essentially the '90s version of Lena Dunham, except skinny and with no tits (and possibly more of a cunt).

I did like her when she played a killer on Law & Order as a teenager.

There were about ten background actors playing hospital staff who had never heard of Claire Danes, and didn't know who this 40-year old actress was.

cutest ive seen her look, op

She looks much better as a redhead.

She was brilliant as Temple Grandin.

Because Romeo+Juliet cunt OP. I 'll always love her because of that. The only other movie I saw her in was the one with Keaton and SJP and she was gorgeous. Leave Claire alone.

[quote]She’s THAT girl in your High School class. You know the one

She told Terry Gross that she was made fun of in high school because she would always have her hand raised in class "me me me me me" because she would always know the answer.

Guessing she and Hugh hooked up during the filming of 'Eveniing', in which they both starred. Was he involved with someone else at the time?

Lol how very unsurprising that she would share that anecdote R53. Too bad she couldn't finish her bachelors at Yale though....

So tiresome how all of these celebrities claim they were outcast misfits in high school.

Another pretentious cow moping about in Hudson, NY.

She also told Terry Gross that her "good friend" Lena Dunham had been rejected by Claire's mum for her fabulous Manhattan kindergarten.

After hearing the horrific childhood stories Lena likes to tell about her sister, I'm thinking that was prudent of Mrs. Danes.

Claire is my supercalifragilisticexpialidocious spirit animal--I adored the segments with Morena Baccarin, Damian Lewis (sweet little torso!) & the kids; Morena is so otherworldly, ("V") thought the family portrayal was perfect in Homeland's typical overwrought style . . . as an immigrant from Bethesda, I love all the scenes set in & around Washington, & the fact that I can miss long stretches & come back to another breakdown with Carrie & her latest guy, & especially Mandy's performances--I guess I feel familiar because my family had similar issues, & I got to be the crazy . . .

Hideous dress.

R60 I thought that was Anna Paquin for a second there.

I like her in Homeland. Her character isn’t always likeable but she does well.

I’ll never forgive her for home-wrecking. Billy crudip was the douche but his Fiancé was with child.

The people complaining about "homewrecking" sound like fraus

I'm surprised that Crudup went from Mary Louise Parker and Danes (who are both notorious cunts) to Naomi Watts, who is by all accounts a very nice person. He's over 50 now so he probably realized he's getting too old for those batshit cases.

Shades of Goop in that picture OP, with maybe 2% more self awareness tops.

She's unlikeable but compelling on [italic]Homeland[/italic]. I don't need a BFF.

Close your legs for the married man!

Funny, just yesterday for no reason at all I was thinking how plain she is for a TV star.

Her acting throughout My So-Called Life is startlingly good, and probably the best acting ever for a "minor." She's better than most adult actors.

R56 Every celebrity claims this, then their old yearbooks will show up online and they were prom king or head cheerleader.

R55 Someone on here claimed that they went to Yale with her and they shared an advisor.

I agree with the other posters saying they prefer her redheaded or chestnut. She suits a lob more than long hair, too. She has the personality for a no-nonsense short cut.

"I think her natural hair color is the light brown in the first scene of MSCL before she dyes her hair Crimson Glow."

She's not a natural blond. She was a brunette as a kid. In the earlier Homeland episodes her hair looked yellow, like an Armenian broad's blonde attempt. She seems like a completely neurotic "actor".

[Quote] In the earlier Homeland episodes her hair looked yellow, like an Armenian broad's blonde attempt.

Lol