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.”

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- Golden Globes – January
- Golden Globes After Party – January

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 

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

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 

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.

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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- AN EVENING WITH PATTI LUPONE AND MANDY PATINKIN – NOVEMBER 

Recently the series’ star, Damian Lewis, celebrated by belting out a lively rendition of White Wedding at the Cast and Crew Wrap Party held at VBGB.

You can check out his performance in the video below (and make sure you watch the crowd to see his co-star Claire Danes rock out too!).

Damian Lewis interview talks about Claire Danes’ character Carrie & Brody.

I’m sorry to have missed that. So, last we saw you, Brody and Carrie [Claire Danes] just drove off into the sunset. There’s totally going to be a happy ending now, right?
Yeah, as you can tell from the style of the show, everything will be resolved now and it will turn into a romantic-comedy road trip. [Laughs.] You’ve seen their teenage moment in the back of the car …

That’s one way to put it.
Oh, now we’re just being coy with each other. [Laughs.] I think one spine of the show is clearly: Is Brody or is Brody not a terrorist. And if he is, will Carrie catch him in time or is she in fact a little crazy? But I also think a strong central spine is this Casablanca-like relationship these two have, not being able to be with or without one another.

The chemistry between Carrie and Brody used to seem palpable but vague. Now … it’s not so vague anymore. Do you think there’s really a connection between them, or is each playing the other?
I think Carrie consciously places herself as a honeytrap and is surprised by her connection to the man she’s supposed to be surveilling. And it’s also in keeping with her slightly reckless nature, that she maybe has problems with boundaries. In Brody, he is excited and woken up by this connection he has with a woman, that he’s struggling to regain with his wife. They’re two broken-winged birds who recognize the damage in each other. Brody knows Carrie is intuiting something about him that no one else is, and she is crossing all sorts of professional lines by becoming emotionally engaged with a guy who’s a possible breach to homeland security. It’s wrong on so many levels, but it’s deliciously right as well!