Here are some great photos & video of Claire Danes at the Harvard Hastings Awards for Woman of the Year in January.
Actor Claire Danes was treated to a day of celebrations after receiving the Woman of the Year award from Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals society on Thursday. The honour, which has been bestowed annually since 1951 to starlets including Elizabeth Taylor and Angela Lansbury, includes a parade through Harvard Square, dinner and a golden Pudding Pot.
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- HARVARD’S HASTINGS AWARDS ‘WOMAN OF THE YEAR’ – JANUARY
Golden Globe winner Claire Danes will be picking up a pudding pot from Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals.
The student group named Danes on Friday as its Woman of the Year. She’ll get a parade and a roast Jan. 26.
Danes won her third Golden Globe on Sunday for her role as CIA agent Carrie Mathison on Showtime’s new “Homeland.” She won a Golden Globe, an Emmy and a Screen Actors Guild award last year for her work in HBO’s “Temple Grandin.”
The 32-year-old gained attention at 15 when she won her first Golden Globe and an Emmy nomination for “My So Called Life.”
Julianne Moore won the Harvard club’s award last year.
Acting couple Claire Danes and Hugh Dancy send each other photos of their feet when they’re apart – so as not to bore each other talking about their daily activities.
The stars, who met on the set of Evening in 2007, have been married for two years but their busy work schedules often keep them separated.
Danes has been shooting her TV hit Homeland in North Carolina, while Dancy has been working on the New York stage – but the actress keeps the relationship interesting by sending her husband funny anecdotes and pictures.
She tells Cnn broadcaster Piers Morgan, “In the formative stages of our courtship, our relationship, our schedules were amazingly compatible. Lately we’ve not been so lucky. I’m obviously filming the series and he’s doing a play called the Venus In Fur in New York right now so he’s stationed there.
“We talk a lot, we text a lot, we send each other photos of our toes – dumb stuff. I think it’s dangerous when you go into reporting mode, when you just kind of list the things you’ve done that day. Sometimes you just kind of have to act as if you were with each other and not say anything terribly significant.”
Danes admits she didn’t expect love to blossom with the Brit when they met because she had just ended another romance and was looking forward to the single life.
She recalls, “I had just come out of a relationship and so I was very excited about being single, because I’d never been single and I was kind of boasting about it. And then I just fell in love, immediately, again! He’s the best person I know, he’s just great.”
First of all congratulations to the cast and crew of Homeland for winning the Golden Globe & of course congratulations to Claire Danes for winning her Golden Globe. Now please enjoy pictures of Claire Danes arriving on the red carpet, the press room with her award and at the HBO After Party.
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- Golden Globes – January
- Golden Globes After Party – January
The rain didn’t stop Sarah Jessica Parker, Rachel Zoe, and other stars from stepping out in NYC for the launch of Valentino’s virtual museum at the IAC headquarters last night. Rachel Zoe looked glamorous in a beaded gown by the designer and was joined by husband Rodger Berman. Claire Danes, who’s starring in Showtime’s new series, Homeland, came out in a bright red dress. She wore another look by Valentino on Wednesday when she was honored at the NY Women in Film and TV Muse Awards for Vision and Achievement.
Sorry the thumbnails suck… Plus we added a picture of Hugh Dancy, who also attended the event.
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- VALENTINO LAUNCH EVENT – DECEMBER
Earlier I reported about Claire’s attendance at the Muse Awards. Here is some more information and also images of Claire at the event. Enjoy!
Claire Danes hits the red carpet inValentino at the 2011 NYWIFT Muse Awards for Vision and Achievementheld at the Grand Ballroom inside the New York Hilton Hotel on Wednesday (December 7) in New York City.
Not only was the 32-year-old star honored for her film work, so was actress Christine Baranski, Sony Pictures Classics co-founder Marcie Bloom, Budd Enterprises presidentNadine Schramm, and producer and entrepreneur Martha Stewart.
NYWIFT (New York Women In Film & Television) recognizes the most prominent women in the film, television, and digital media fields
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- MUSE AWARDS – DECEMBER
Emmy Rossum and Claire Danes sandwich in Kristen Bell at Showtime’s Holiday Soiree held at the Quincy Estate on Thursday (December 1) in Los Angeles.
Also coming out for the bash: Emmy’s Shameless co-stars, Cameron Monaghan, Justin Chatwin, Tyler Jacob Moore, and William H. Macy.
Guests enjoyed spiked snow cones as well as a Thanksgiving-redux spread, before indulging in chocolate bread pudding and a hot chocolate bar.
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- SHOWTIME HOLIDAY SOIREE – DECEMBER
Sixteen years after her debut as an adolescent on My So-Called Life, Claire Danes has returned, all grown up and paranoid as hell, in Showtime’s Homeland. This time she’s fighting terrorism—as well as her character Carrie Mathison’s mental illness, not to mention her irresponsible sex drive. As far as Obama-era war-on-terror TV heroes go, she’s the perfect antidote to the killer certitude of 24’s W.-era Jack Bauer.
Do you have to have a top-secret Showtime clearance to know what’s next on the series?
Thanksgiving was funny because my family was just trying to extract information from me. And I can’t give away anything. It’s fun and frustrating to sit on the secrets. Hugh [Dancy, Danes’s husband] started watching the show, but he wouldn’t even allow me to talk about what I was doing at work that day because he didn’t want to have the story be spoiled. I was like, But I need to share my experiences with you! The nice thing is that the writers don’t really know either, [laughs] so we’re safe; we can’t spoil it even if we wanted to.
Had you been thinking about coming back to TV?
Not really. I was aware of it being a potentially good environment for me, but I wasn’t chasing anything specifically. And when they came to me with this I had my reservations, just because it is such a profound commitment, and she’s tough, this Carrie Mathison lady. I didn’t know if I wanted to be tortured for a decade. But as distressed as she is, she’s also really, really fascinating, and I don’t have many opportunities to play people this surprising and this complex. She’s a nutter. I was joking with [co-creator] Alex Gansa and he said, “Can you believe what we’ve asked you to do this season?”
My So-Called Life has had such a long afterlife.
I love that show, so I don’t feel dogged by it, and I’m incredibly flattered that it continues to resonate. I loved Saved By the Bell, but it wasn’t that, it was a very special show. I’m not remotely embarrassed by it. I got a little bit annoyed when people were saying that, you know, Carrie Mathison is just Angela Chase grown up. That is preposterous.
Carrie cares about her job tremendously. Do you think she really would have started sleeping with Brody, a guy she thinks is a terrorist?
Well, I’d say it’s complicated, because yes, she is dead serious about her job. It’s the only thing in her life that seems to have any value. But they both kind of recognize each other. They’re very isolated, they’re broken in similar ways and for similar reasons. I think they do kind of fall in love. It’s perfectly fucked up.
You curse wonderfully on the show.
Oh God, I’m cursing so much more! Hugh is so embarrassed because I’m saying fuck left, right, and center. It’s a bad habit! It’s very enjoyable to do. I take great pleasure in it. It’s probably why I’m at all capable.
New York Women in Film and Television is doing what it does best on Wednesday, celebrating women in the industry, by honoring Claire Danes, Christine Baranski and Martha Stewart at the 31st annual Muse Awards for Vision and Achievement.
Danes was chosen for her body of work, notably her recent work in the Showtime drama series “Homeland” and HBO telepic “Temple Grandin.” Baranski will also be feted for her career achievements, including “The Good Wife,” which gave her a homefield advantage as the CBS drama lenses in Gotham. Marcie Bloom, co-founder and co-prexy of Sony Pictures Classics, and Nadine Schramm, prexy of Budd Enterprises, are also honorees.
NYWIFT, which has about 2,000 members representing the many faces of the New York-based entertainment biz, is striving to achieve equality in the industry. Although there has been notable progress for femmes in recent years — in disparate areas from the raunchy- comedy success of “Bridesmaids” to director Kathryn Bigelow’s Oscar win for “The Hurt Locker” — there is still much work to be done, says Terry Lawler, NYWIFT’s executive director.
“It seems like for years every once in a while some woman — through gargantuan efforts — has been able to make a film and then it doesn’t seem to level the playing field,” Lawler says. “We’re not where we want to be yet.”
Actress Claire Danes attends “An Evening with Patti Lupone and Mandy Patinkin” Broadway opening night at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on November 21, 2011 in New York City.
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