Full name:	Claire Catherine Danes
Date of birth:	April 12, 1979
Place of birth:	New York City, NY, USA
Height:	5'5½" / 1,68m
Eyes:	hazel / gray / green
Hair:	dark blond
Family:	father: Chris Danes, computer consultant, born in 1944 mother: Carla Danes, teacher and painter, born in 1945 brother: Asa Danes, laywer, born in 1973
Place of residence:	1979-1994: SoHo, NY, with her parents 1994-1999: Santa Monica, with her parents since 1999: a loft in NY (purchase price around $1,000,000)
Salary:	The Mod Squad (1999): $2,000,000 Terminator 3 (2003): $5,000,000
Interests:	psychology, modern dance, gymnastics, surfing
Education:	Lee Strasberg Theater Institute, NY Professional Performing Arts School, NY Dalton High School, NY Le Lycée Francais, LA Yale University
Pets:	cat called Fifi-Champion poodle called Ouija
Favourite designers:	Zac Posen, Narciso Rodiguez, Alexander McQueen
Favourite movies:	Footloose, Fargo, The Breakfast Club
Role of her dreams:	in a dance-movie like Footloose
Significant others:	1995-1996: Andrew Dorff 1997-2003: Ben Lee 2003-2006: Billy Crudup 2007-present: Hugh Dancy

A woman's face with nature's own hand painted,
Hast thou, the master mistress of my passion;
A woman's gentle heart, but not acquainted
With shifting change, as is false women's fashion:
An eye more bright than theirs, less false in rolling,
Gilding the object whereupon it gazeth;
A man in hue all hues in his controlling,
Which steals men's eyes and women's souls amazeth.
And for a woman wert thou first created;
Till Nature, as she wrought thee, fell a-doting,
And by addition me of thee defeated,
By adding one thing to my purpose nothing.
But since she prick'd thee out for women's pleasure,
Mine be thy love and thy love's use their treasure.

Brodway for Claire : "Pygmalion"

Pygmalion (1913) is a play by George Bernard Shaw based on Ovid's tale of Pygmalion. It tells the story of Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics (based on phonetician Daniel Jones), who makes a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering that he can successfully pass off a Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, as a refined society lady by teaching her how to speak with an upper class accent and training her in etiquette. In the process, Higgins and Doolittle grow close, but she ultimately rejects his domineering ways and declares she will marry Freddy Eynsford-Hill – a young, poor, gentleman.

Shaw wrote the lead role of Eliza Doolittle for Mrs Patrick Campbell (though at 49 she was considered by some to be too old for the part). Due to delays in mounting a London production and Campbell's injury in a car accident, the first English presentation did not take place until some time after Pygmalion premiered at the Hofburg Theater in Vienna on October 16, 1913, in a German translation by Shaw. The first production in English finally opened at His Majesty's Theatre, London on April 11, 1914 and starred Mrs Patrick Campbell as Eliza and Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree as Henry Higgins; it was directed by Shaw himself.

The Pygmalion myth was a popular subject for Victorian era English playwrights, including one of Shaw's influences, W. S. Gilbert, who wrote a successful play based on the the story in 1871, called Pygmalion and Galatea. Shaw also would have been familiar with the burlesque version, Galatea, or Pygmalion Reversed.

Angeleno Magazine - February 2006

on her favourite role:
"I always wanted to play Joan of Arc, but I guess I'm too old now."

on fame:
"I feel a little ridiculous. I mean, why am I getting so much attention? What do I do that's so special? Yeah, I act, but so what?"

on what to do on a fun evening:
"Pulling your pyjamas on and lying down." (at age 17)

on school:
"Graduation day was one of the few days I actually showed up at school."

Hugh and Claire

Claire Danes and British boyfriend Hugh Dancy hold hands while taking a romantic stroll through SoHo on Friday afternoon, October 27th, 2007.

Danes, 28, and Dancy, 32, left the gym together, then stopped in the Mercer Kitchen for a quick lunch before returning to Danes’s apartment.

Starting on September, Danes made her linguistically-challenging Broadway debut in the revival of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion starring as Eliza Doolittle. Her character is a Cockney flower girl who must pass off as a refined society lady by learning how to speak with an upper class accent and train in etiquette.

There’s a NSFW interview with Hugh Dancy about his movie The Jane Austen Book Club.

67th Annual Motion Picture Club Awards - October 11, 2007

Danes' Dancing Man

Whoever says romance is dead hasn't met Hugh Dancy. A spy spotted the Ella Enchanted star wooing his lady, Claire Danes, by showing off some smooth moves while dancing to Rihanna's hit Umbrella at -- of all places -- the gym.

"Hugh interrupted Claire from on the treadmill to do a dance where he pretended to hold an umbrella, kind of like Mary Poppins," a source told OK! magazine.

According to the source, the actress seemed to enjoy the show and "giggled like a schoolgirl."

Claire Danes in a Peter Som original

It's only fitting, since he thinks his customer "tends to be a dreamer with her head in the clouds," that Peter Som would love to try skydiving. "I'm scared of heights really. But facing my fears is something I'm into these days," says the designer. And these days, Som has every reason for that face to be a happy one.

"A collection first has to make me feel good," says Som. Actress Claire Danes in a Peter Som original.

He has survived on his own for seven years, without the backup of a perfume or a handbag line, and while adorable he may be, he has never held the title of critics' darling. All he has to show for himself are clothes that airily embrace the lighter side of a fine romance.

Trust us, finding a happy moment in fashion is not easy--nor is it all that easy to find time for.

"I've always wanted to make the beautiful things that come into my head," says Som. "What you don't realize when you're merely thinking of being a designer is that it's only going to be one eighth of what you do. There's so much marketing and finance involved. Getting that dress of your dreams on your girl means you have to build a machine to get it to her."

The Palazzo Las Vegas Grand Opening

January 17, 2008

Clare Danes, in a flesh-toned jersey Donna Karan dress, was one of the few celebrities who didn't immediately duck out of the party once she got inside (granted, the corridor was overly lit and sparsely populated, affecting all the charm of, well, a shopping mall). Danes noted that this was only her second visit to Las Vegas, "so it all seems very exotic still."

Me & Orson Welles to Start Filming

Coming-of-age romantic comedy Me & Orson Welles will start principal photography in the Isle of Man on February 24th, before moving to Pinewood Studios, London locations and New York.

Zac Efron (Hairspray, “High School Musical”) and Claire Danes (Stardust, Romeo & Juliet) head a starry ensemble cast in the CinemaNX production of the romantic theatrical comedy “Me & Orson Welles,” to be filmed by Oscar®-nominated director Richard Linklater (School of Rock, Before Sunset).

The screenplay by Holly Gent Palmo and Vincent Palmo Jr. is based on the novel by Robert Kaplow, a coming-of-age story set in the heady world of New York theatre. Efron plays a teenage student who lucks his way into a minor role in the 1937 Mercury Theatre production of “Julius Caesar,” directed by 22-year-old genius Orson Welles. In the words of Kaplow’s protagonist: “This is the story of one week in my life. I was seventeen. It was the week I slept in Orson Welles’s pajamas. It was the week I fell in love. It was the week I fell out of love.”

Newcomer Christian McKay, an alumnus of RADA and the Royal Shakespeare Company, stars as Orson Welles, alongside Ben Chaplin (The New World, The Truth About Cats And Dogs) as George Coulouris, Kelly Reilly, Eddie Marsan as John Houseman and Leo Bill as Norman Lloyd. The featured cast also includes Imogen Poots and National Theatre and RSC actor Aidan McArdle. Further casting to be announced.