Claire Danes is one of the famous actresses from the United States. She is popular in the world for portraying her role in the movies like Les Misérables, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines and many more.
Claire Danes' early life
Claire Danes was from the upper-middle-class family born as Claire Catherine Danes on the 12th of April, 1979 in Manhattan, New York City, New York of United States of America to Carla Danes and Christopher Danes. Her mother is an artist and her father is a photographer. She is American and is white.
She was a talented girl since her childhood days; she is also a great dancer. She dreamed about acting since her childhood days and for that, she also took several acting classes.
She appeared in several stage programs and expressed her dancing and acting skills. She finally won for first acting role when she was just thirteen years old.
Claire Danes' career
Claire Danes made her career debut in the year 1994, with the film Little Women, where she played the role of Beth March. She played the lead role of Juliet in the film Romeo + Juliet, alongside Leonardo DiCaprio.
She is best known for her appearance as Cosette in the film Les Miserables, featuring Liam Neeson and Uma Thurman, and in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines as Kate Brewster, acting opposite to Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Claire Danes' personal life (married and affairs)
Claire Danes is a married woman. But before being married, she also had some romantic love affairs more than once in her life.
It is said that Benjamin Michael "Ben" Lee is her first boyfriend. He is a great musician from Australia and he is also an actor. They began seeing each other from 1997. But they called off their relationship in 2003.
The following year, she was found with Billy Crudup. He is also an actor and Claire Danes dated him until 2006. It was also 2006 when she first met the love of her life, Hugh Dancy.
He has a long name and it is also difficult to spell. He is one of the great actors from the United Kingdom and he has also established himself as a model. They first met each other when they were portraying their role in Evening, starring Toni Collette.
They fell in love from that time on and got engaged at the start of 2009. And they later got married at the end of that year. Claire Danes and Hugh also have one child together.
Claire Danes' net worth and salary
Her first major movie role was in Little Women, featuring Winona Ryder, whose box office earning was the net worth of $50,083,616.
Now she is known for her role in Homeland and in 2011, Claire Danes earned $250,000 for appearing in each episode.
As of 2019, Claire Danes has accumulated a massive wealth, worth $25 million, which she earned from her hard works in the entertainment business.