Claire Danes fact file

1992 - Auditions for role of Angela in 'My So-Called Life'.

1992 - Makes movie debut aged 11 in student film 'Dreams of Love'.

1992 - Claire makes her first television appearance as a guest on television show 'Law & Order'.

1993 - Films pilot for 'My So-Called Life'.

1993 - Appears in a documentary called 'Geoffrey Beene 30'.

1994 - She makes her feature film debut in 'Little Women', which also starred Winona Ryder and Susan Sarandon.

1994 - Starred in the drama series, 'My So-Called Life', in which she won a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Drama Series.

1995 - Danes plays the younger version of Anne Bancroft's character 'Glady Joe Cleary' in the movie 'How to Make an American Quilt'. 'My So-Called Life' co-star Jared Leto also featured in the movie.

1995 - Anne Bancroft this time appears with Claire as her grandmother in 'Home for the Holidays'.

1995 - Makes an appearance in the music video for 'Just Like Anyone' by Soul Asylum.

1996 - Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire both star in retelling of the classic love story in William Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet'.

1996 - Claire takes the leading role in 'To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday'.

1997 - She plays the grandaughter of legendary French actress Jeanne Moreau in 'I Love You, I Love You Not'.

1997 - Stars along with Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, Joaquin Phoenix, Billy Bob Thornton in Oliver Stone's 'U-Turn'

1997 - Matt Damon comes to the aid of a wife in distresss in John Grisham's 'The Rainmaker', which was directed by Francis Ford Coppola.

1997 - Claire provides the voice of 'San' in the English version of Japanese animation movie 'Princess Mononoke'.

1998 - Handed the role of Cosette in Bille August's adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic novel, 'Les Miserables'.

1998 - Claire plays Hala, a young woman who's unmarried and pregnant in 'Polish Wedding'.

1999 - Omar Epps, Giovanni Ribisi and Claire star as a trio out to solve a murder of a police officer in 'The Mod Squad'.

1999 - In 'Brokedown Palace', Danes and Kate Beckinsale star as two young women wrongly sent to prision for drug trafficking.

2002 - She co-stars in the comedy 'Igby Goes Down'.

2002 - Plays the daughter of Meryl Streep's character in 'The Hours'.

2003 - Claire and Joaquin Phoenix star as two lovers in 'It's All About Love'.

2003 - Danes co-stars as lead Arnold Schwarzenegger returns as the cyborg from the future in 'Terminator 3: The Rise of the Machines'.

2004 - She stars with Billy Crudup in 'Stage Beauty', which was based on a Jeffrey Hatcher play.

2005 - Claire stars in 'Shopgirl', a movie starring and written by Steve Martin.

2005 - The actress appears in comedy/drame, 'The Family Stone'.