Claire Danes Net Worth 2018: The multi-award-winning actress is amazingly wealthy!
Claire Catherine Danes is a multi award winning actress from the United States. Until now, she has received two Screen Actors Guild Awards, three Emmy Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards. She was named by Time Magazine (2012) as one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
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So what is Claire Danes net worth in 2018? What are Claire Danes’s salary/earnings? Read on…
Claire Danes Career, Earnings, Salary
Claire Danes was born in Manhattan on April 12th 1979 into a family of 2 siblings. She took acting classes at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute at the age of 9. A year later, she auditioned with Miloš Forman, bagging roles in several student films. For junior high, Claire went to the Professional Performing Arts School. After graduating from the Lycée Français de Los Angeles, Claire began studies at Yale University as a psychology major, although she left Yale after 2 years to concentrate on acting. Claire currently has one child with her husband, actor Hugh Dancy.
When she was 13, Claire Danes had her first major job in the Dudley Moore TV sitcom pilot called Dudley. Teenage Claire also appeared on a Law & Order season three’s “Skin Deep and “The Coming out of Heidi Leiter” on HBO’s Lifestories: Families in Crisis before rising to fame playing Angela Chase in the TV series My So-Called Life (1994), for which she won the Best Actress Golden Globe Award and the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series Primetime Emmy nomination.
Claire Danes played an autistic woman in HBO’s Temple Grandin in 2010 and this won her Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film at the 2011 Golden Globe Awards, Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie award at the 2010 Emmy’s, and the Screen Actors Guild Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries 2011 award. Her TV career continued to flourish when she started playing Carrie Mathison, a bipolar CIA agent, the TV series Homeland in 2011. She has won multiple awards for this role including Best Actress in a Television Series at the 2012 and 2013 Golden Globes, and Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series at the 2012 and 2013 Emmy Awards.
Claire Danes first ventured into movies in 1994, as Beth March in Little Women. Her other film roles include Home for the Holidays (1995), I Love You, I Love You Not (1996), To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday (1996), a leading role in Romeo + Juliet (1996), The Rainmaker (1997), Les Misérables (1998), a pregnant Polish teenager in Polish Wedding (1998), The Mod Squad movie (1999) and Brokedown Palace (1999)
Claire Danes’s first animated feature appearance was in Princess Mononoke (1999). After leaving Yale to return to film in 2002, Claire starred in Igby Goes Down, the Oscar-nominated film The Hours, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Stage Beauty (2004), Shopgirl and The Family Stone in 2015 for which she earned critical acclaim, Stardust (2007), the drama films Evening and The Flock and in the film Me and Orson Welles.
Claire Danes’s acting career includes multiple theater appearances, including of Happiness, Punk Ballet, and Kids Onstage, Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues, Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, Performance Space 122’s Edith and Jenny, George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion as Eliza Doolittle and Sarah Burgess’s Dry Powder.
Claire Danes also supports charities such as Afghan Hands, a charity that empowers Afghanistan women, and Donorschoose.org which is a website that allows public school teachers to get funding for projects. Other notable achievements include being awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2015.
Claire Danes Net Worth 2018: How Much Money Does Claire Danes Have?
Claire Danes’ popularity in film, TV and stage is evidenced by the numerous awards she has won over her 25 year career. All that fame and accolades have been instrumental in her accumulating amazing amount of wealth.
In all, we estimate Claire Danes net worth in 2018 at $20 million.
