Claire Danes

Claire Danes had all the ballots to become a Hollywood star thanks to her first jobs. But the truth is that things did not work out. The fame achieved with Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare (1996) gradually lost steam until Claire became an actress who went unnoticed by the general public. Her potential star turned struggling star, though her latest work seems to be aimed at ingratiating herself with as many viewers as possible.

Claire was born on April 12, 1979 in New York. Her mother is a painter and her father is an amateur photographer. The couple met at an art school, so both have always supported her daughter in her artistic concerns. At the age of 6, Claire began studying dance. As she affirms, she “knew that she wanted to be an actress since she was five years old, when she had Madonna as her muse. When I was seven or eight years old, I realized that most actors don’t make a lot of money, so I had a moment of doubt. But at the age of nine I realized that it was my destiny. So I formally told my parents that I wanted to be an actress. Money or no money, acting was my calling.” To prepare, she went through the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute and the Professional Performing Arts High School. Despite this heartfelt vocation, Claire has had a break of a couple of years in her career. The last one occurred at the beginning of 2000, a moment that she took advantage of to go to Yale where she studied psychology for two years. As an anecdote, it should be noted that she wasOliver Stone who wrote his letter of recommendation for the prestigious university.

This precociousness in showing such clarity of ideas in childhood was embodied in reality in 1992, the year in which Claire made her television debut in a chapter of Law and Order . Her big screen debut came two years later with the role of Beth March in the new version of Little Women . Claire was the youngest of the family and had two older sisters, Winona Ryder and Kirsten Dunst . That same year, she found success in the United States thanks to the television series Es mi vida , which had Claire as the absolute protagonist. The series told the reality of American adolescents through the character of Claire. Her work was very well received and helped her win a Golden Globe.

Claire was stomping, so she was chosen by Jodie Foster to play a supporting role in the family drama Home for the Holidays (1995), her second job as a director. Her first starring role on celluloid came with the romantic drama I Love You, I Love You Not (1996). Her big moment came a few months later thanks to Baz Luhrmann ‘s modern version of the Romeo and Juliet story. Her romance with Leonardo DiCaprioit placed them both at the highest levels of celebrity. However, the passing of the years has only made the actor a star, while she stayed at the gates of the Hollywood constellation. The reason for this difference between the two will never be known. The solution may be a title like Titanic , which Claire did not want to interpret so as not to be pigeonholed in the role of DiCaprio’s love interest.

Even so, Claire’s decisions led her to work with renowned directors such as Oliver Stone in Turn to Hell (1997) or Francis Ford Coppola in Legitimate Defense (1997). The certain public success of films such as Les Miserables (1998), where she was the daughter of Uma Thurman , and the heartbreaking drama based on true events Broken Dreams (1999), did not serve to boost Claire’s career. It was then that there was a break of about three years. Her return seems to have been marked by an attempt to ingratiate herself with the general public. She did an impeccable job as Meryl Streep ‘s daughter in The Hours.(2002) and became the substitute for Linda Hamilton in Terminator 3. Rise of the Machines (2003), where she was the future wife of the protagonist John Connor. However, stardom had not quite taken hold, a situation that was not helped by her subsequent works, such as the romantic comedy Shopgirl (2005), a good title but little seen by the general public.

Recently, his job choices have been more on track to what is assumed could be blockbuster movies. And the truth is that if none have been blockbusters, what they have been are good movies. The first is the romantic drama El atardecer (2007), where she was the young version of Vanessa Redgrave , months later she came to movie screens as the struggling star of Stardust (2007), a film full of adventures and fantasy. With barely time to breathe, Claire premiered the thriller The Wells Case (2007), where Richard Gerehe became his mentor in the dark world of investigating sexual crimes. With these titles Claire begins to be a regular for the general public, although her star status eludes her, so she, for the moment, remains a struggling star.