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Claire Catherine Danes (born on April 12 , 1979 ) is an American Film , television and theatre Actress . BIOGRAPHY Early life Danes was born in New York City, New York to Chris Danes (a computer consultant and former Architectural photographer) and Carla (a day care provider, painter, and Textile designer who works as Claire's manager). She has a brother, Asa, who graduated from Oberlin College and works as a Not-for-profit organizer. Danes attended the exclusive private high school Le Lycee Francais De Los Angeles in Los Angeles, California , and later attended Yale University (her father's alma mater) for two years as a Psychology major starting in 1998 . She dropped out of Yale to focus on her film career. Career Danes is perhaps most famous as Angela Chase in the 1994 Television Drama Series '' My So-Called Life '' for which she won a Golden Globe Award and received an Emmy nomination, followed by her role as Juliet in Baz Luhrmann 's 1996 film '' Romeo + Juliet ''. In 1999 , while filming for '' Brokedown Palace '', she and all material related to her were “banned” from the Philippines after she publicly criticized the capital, Manila , as "ghastly" and "smells like cockroaches". She later apologized. Danes has appeared in Off-Broadway plays, including ''Happiness'', ''Punk Ballet'', and ''Kids On Stage'', in which she choreographed her own solo dance. Personal life For a number of years she and Australia n singer Ben Lee dated, but their relationship ended in 2003 . She is now dating Billy Crudup , who left his Common-law spouse, actress Mary Louise Parker (who was 8 months pregnant with their child) for Danes. Danes and Crudup starred opposite each other in the film '' Stage Beauty '', as well as in the English dubbed version of '' Princess Mononoke ''. FILMOGRAPHY
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