50+ Famous People And Celebrities Named Claire
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- 204/12/1979Claire Danes, an American actress of extraordinary talent and critical acclaim, has etched an indelible mark in the world of entertainment. Born on April 12, 1979, in Manhattan, New York, she was exposed to the arts at a young age, studying dance and theater. Her exceptional acting skills were evident early on, leading her to study at the prestigious Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. Danes's breakthrough role came in 1994 with the television series My So-Called Life, where she played Angela Chase, a role that won her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress and a nomination for an Emmy Award. She then transitioned to the big screen, starring in films such as Little Women (1994) and Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet (1996), further establishing her presence in Hollywood. Her portrayal of Juliet alongside Leonardo DiCaprio showcased her ability to capture audiences with her emotive performances. Danes's career trajectory took a significant leap with her role in the spy thriller series Homeland. Her performance as Carrie Mathison, a CIA officer struggling with bipolar disorder, won her critical acclaim, earning her two Emmys and two Golden Globe Awards. Throughout her career, Danes has proven her versatility, taking on diverse roles across genres. Her commitment to her craft, coupled with an innate ability to bring characters to life, cements her status as one of the most respected actresses of her generation.More Claire Danes
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- #115 of 200 onThe Best Actresses Working Today
- #1099 of 1,285 onThe Most Beautiful Women Of All Time
- 404/16/1984Claire Elizabeth Foy (born 16 April 1984) is an English actress. She studied acting at the Liverpool John Moores University and the Oxford School of Drama and made her screen debut in the pilot of the supernatural comedy series Being Human, in 2008. Following her professional stage debut at the Royal National Theatre, she played the title role in the BBC One miniseries Little Dorrit (2008), and made her film debut in the American historical fantasy drama Season of the Witch (2011). Following leading roles in the television series The Promise (2011) and Crossbones (2014), Foy received praise for portraying the ill-fated queen Anne Boleyn in the miniseries Wolf Hall (2015). Foy gained international recognition for portraying the young Queen Elizabeth II in the first two seasons of the Netflix series The Crown (2016–2017), for which she won a Golden Globe and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, among other awards. In 2018, she starred in Steven Soderbergh's psychological thriller Unsane and portrayed Janet Shearon, wife of astronaut Neil Armstrong, in Damien Chazelle's biopic First Man. For the latter, she was nominated for the BAFTA and Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress.More Claire Foy
- #25 of 87 onThe Best English Actresses Working Today
- #16 of 90 onThe Best Living English Actresses
- #1 of 15 onAll the Performers Who Have Played Queen Elizabeth II, Ranked
- 507/01/1972Claire Forlani, a skillful and seasoned British actress, is recognized globally for her magnetic charisma, intense performances, and a career that spans across both film and television. Born on July 1, 1972, in Twickenham, England, her inherent talent led her to pursue acting at an early age. She studied at the Arts Educational School in London before making her move across the pond to Hollywood in the '90s. Forlani's breakthrough role came when she starred opposite Brad Pitt in the 1998 romantic drama, Meet Joe Black. Her performance was critically acclaimed and led to numerous opportunities in high-profile projects. In addition to her film credits, Forlani has an impressive repertoire in television series. She played the lead role in the CBS medical drama series CSI: NY and had significant parts in the fantasy-drama Camelot and historical fiction World Without End. Away from the screen, Forlani is known for her humanitarian efforts. Her commitment to philanthropy is as compelling as her acting career, with notable contributions to various charities and causes. She also delved into the world of business, co-founding the luxury skincare company Bahoma London. Despite her fame and success, Forlani has maintained a sense of humility and grace, making her a beloved figure both within the entertainment industry and beyond.More Claire Forlani
- #463 of 1,285 onThe Most Beautiful Women Of All Time
- #113 of 166 onThe 100+ Most Stunning Women of the '90s
- #161 of 1,134 onThe Most Beautiful Women In The World
- 606/11/1988Claire Rhiannon Holt (born 11 June 1988) is an Australian actress, known for her roles as Rebekah Mikaelson in the television series The Vampire Diaries and its spinoff series The Originals, Samara Cook in Pretty Little Liars, Emma in H2O: Just Add Water, and Kate in the survival horror film 47 Meters Down.More Claire Holt
- #1067 of 1,285 onThe Most Beautiful Women Of All Time
- #751 of 1,134 onThe Most Beautiful Women In The World
- #868 of 1,102 onThe Most Beautiful Celebrities Of Our Time
- 701/01/1965Claire Skinner (born 1965) is an English actress, known in the United Kingdom for her television career, particularly playing Sue Brockman from the BBC television series Outnumbered.
- 804/21/1946Claire Denis (born 21 April 1946) is a French film director and writer. Her feature film Beau Travail (1999) has been called one of the greatest films of the 1990s. Other acclaimed works include Trouble Every Day (2001), 35 Shots of Rum (2008), and White Material (2009). Her work has dealt with themes of colonial and post-colonial West Africa, as well as issues in modern France, and continues to influence European cinematic identity.
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Claire Babrowski
- 1002/10/1975Claire Goose (born 10 February 1975) is a British actress. She played Tina Seabrook, a nurse in BBC One's Casualty, DS Mel Silver in Waking the Dead. and Inspector Rachel Weston in ITV's The Bill. She also narrated the last two series of Road Wars for digital satellite channel Sky 1 in 2009 and 2010. In 2015 she took the part of the leading character in BBC Birmingham's series The Coroner.
- 1104/17/1971Claire Jane Sweeney (born 17 April 1971) is an English actress, singer and television personality, best known for playing the role of Lindsey Corkhill in the Channel 4 soap opera Brookside and playing the role of Roxie Hart in the musical, Chicago, in London's West End. She also starred opposite Patrick Swayze in Guys and Dolls, the musical.
- 1204/14/1892Claire Windsor (born Clara Viola Cronk; April 14, 1892 – October 24, 1972) was an American film actress of the silent screen era.
- 1301/01/1983Claire van der Boom (born 1983) is a Logie Award winning Australian actress. Of Dutch ancestry, she first became known to Australian audiences for her roles in the TV series Love My Way and East West 101. In 2008, she starred in the Australian neo-noir thriller The Square. Internationally, she is best known for her appearance as Stella Karamanlis in the HBO miniseries The Pacific, and her recurring role playing the ex-wife of Det. Danny Williams in the 2010 remake of Hawaii Five-O.
- 1402/15/1931Patricia Claire Blume, (born 15 February 1931), better known by her stage name Claire Bloom, is an English film and stage actress whose career has spanned over six decades. She is known for leading roles in plays such as A Streetcar Named Desire, A Doll's House, and Long Day's Journey into Night, and has starred in nearly sixty films. After a childhood in England and the US, Bloom studied drama. She debuted on the London stage when she was sixteen and soon took roles in various Shakespeare plays. They included Hamlet, in which she played Ophelia alongside Richard Burton. For her Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, critic Kenneth Tynan stated it was "the best Juliet I've ever seen". After she starred as Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire, its playwright, Tennessee Williams, stated, "I declare myself absolutely wild about Claire Bloom". In 1952, Bloom was discovered by Hollywood film star Charlie Chaplin to co-star alongside him in Limelight. During her film career, she starred alongside numerous major actors, including Richard Burton, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Paul Scofield, Ralph Richardson, Yul Brynner, George C. Scott, James Mason, Paul Newman, Cliff Robertson, Anthony Hopkins and Rod Steiger. In 2010, Bloom played the role of Queen Mary in the British film, The King's Speech. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to drama.More Claire Bloom
- #62 of 79 onThe Best Living Actresses Over 80
- #87 of 103 onThe Most Beautiful Women Of The '60s
- #53 of 57 onActors in the Most Woody Allen Movies
- 1509/05/1976Claire Hooper (born 5 September 1976) is an Australian stand-up comedian, television and radio presenter and writer living in Melbourne. She appeared as a team captain on the 2008 revival of Good News Week on Network Ten and was a regular on The Sideshow, appearing with Paul McDermott. Since 2005, she has regularly performed at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
- 1603/08/1910Claire Trevor (born Claire Wemlinger; March 8, 1910 – April 8, 2000) was an American actress. She appeared in over 60 films, winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Key Largo (1948), and received nominations for her roles in The High and the Mighty (1954) and Dead End (1937). She was billed first for Stagecoach (1939); her profile was higher than John Wayne at the time.More Claire Trevor
- #1201 of 1,285 onThe Most Beautiful Women Of All Time
- #124 of 157 onThe Greatest Western Movie Stars
- #259 of 1,570 onThe Locations of All Hollywood Walk of Fame Stars
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Claire Evans
01/01/1933 - Claire Wolfe is a libertarian author and columnist. Some of Wolfe's favored topics are gulching or homesteading, firearms, homeschooling, open source technology, and opposition to national ID and the surveillance state or nanny state. Wolfe's books include such titles as 101 Things to Do 'Til the Revolution and I Am Not a Number!. Wolfe also writes or has written for a number of magazines, notably Backwoods Home Magazine, S.W.A.T. magazine, and DGC Magazine, which covers electronic, metal-backed currencies. A common subject in Wolfe's writing has been the fictional town of Hardyville, a rural libertarian enclave populated by stereotypical characters (Dora-the-Yalie, Bob-the-Nerd, Carty-the-Marine, etc.). When not writing, Wolfe is also an artist specializing in pastel portraits of people and animals and makes and sells jewelry and kaleidoscopes. Wolfe's first book, 101 Things to Do 'Til the Revolution, was the result of disillusionment with the voting record of Republican Linda Smith of Washington, whose congressional campaign Wolfe had supported in 1994. The book advocated a radical libertarian stance, opposed both major political parties, and encouraged self-sufficiency and actions to minimize the influence of the government in the life of the individual, as well as ideas for monkeywrenching. It was published by Loompanics Unlimited and became an underground bestseller. Wolfe wrote a column for WorldNetDaily in the late 1990s and has written and blogged irregularly since then. The Freedom Outlaw's Handbook (2004) is a compilation of ideas from Wolfe's first two books, both of which are now out of print.
- 1901/10/1963Jayne Claire King (born Jayne Claire Seed; 10 January 1962) is an English actress. She is best known for playing the role of Kim Tate in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale (1989–1999, 2018–present) and Karen Betts in Bad Girls. She has appeared in the fourth series of Strictly Come Dancing in 2006, Safari School in 2007, and Celebrity Big Brother 14 in 2014. She played Erica Holroyd in Coronation Street from 2014 until 2017. She has appeared in panto at the Grand Opera House, Belfast in 2017 as the Magical Mermaid in Peter Pan.
- 2005/24/1905Claire McCardell (May 24, 1905 – March 22, 1958) was an American fashion designer of ready-to-wear clothing in the twentieth century. She is credited with the creation of American sportswear.
- 2108/17/1977Claire Richards (born 17 August 1977) is an English singer-songwriter, dancer and singer in the pop group Steps from 1997 until she left the band in 2001. The group reformed in 2011. Richards was a contestant on the second series of Popstar to Operastar before being voted off in the semi finals. Richards possesses the vocal range of a soprano. On 3 January 2013, Richards entered Celebrity Big Brother and came in fourth place. From April to June 2014, Richards was a regular panellist on Loose Women.
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Claire Thomas
- 2301/01/1883Claire Sinclair is an actress.
- 2409/24/1898Claire Adams (24 September 1898 – 25 September 1978) was a silent film actress and benefactor. She was born in Canada, studied there and in England, and developed a movie career in Hollywood, marrying a producer.
- 2504/14/1980Claire Elizabeth Coffee is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Adalind Schade in the NBC fantasy drama Grimm.More Claire Coffee
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- #638 of 1,166 onThe Most Beautiful Women In The World
- #810 of 1,125 onThe Most Beautiful Celebrities Of Our Time
- 2609/06/1893Claire Lee Chennault (September 6, 1890 – July 27, 1958) was an American military aviator best known for his leadership of the "Flying Tigers" and the Republic of China Air Force in World War II. Chennault was a fierce advocate of "pursuit" or fighter-interceptor aircraft during the 1930s when the United States Army Air Corps was focused primarily on high-altitude bombardment. Chennault retired from the United States Army in 1937, and went to work as an aviation adviser and trainer in China. Starting in early 1941, Chennault commanded the 1st American Volunteer Group (nicknamed Flying Tigers). He headed both the volunteer group and the uniformed U.S. Army Air Forces units that replaced it in 1942. He feuded constantly with General Joseph Stilwell, the U.S. Army commander in China, and helped China's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to convince President Roosevelt to remove Stilwell in 1944. The China-Burma-India theater was strategically essential in order to fix many vital elements of the Imperial Japanese Army on the Chinese mainland to limit their use against Allied forces advancing towards Japan in the two Pacific campaigns.More Claire Lee Chennault
- #16 of 137 onFamous People Buried at Arlington National Cemetery
- #49 of 140 onFamous Shriners Members
- #60 of 64 on50+ Celebrities Born on September 6
- 2703/04/1962Claire Voisin (born 4 March 1962) is a French mathematician known for her work in algebraic geometry. She is the Director of research at Centre national de la recherche scientifique at the Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu – Paris Rive Gauche, a member of the French Academy of Sciences and the chair of Algebraic geometry at the Collège de France.
- 2801/01/1969Claire Jennifer Tomlin (born 1969 Southampton, England) is a British researcher in hybrid systems, distributed and decentralized optimization and control theory and holds the Charles A. Desoer Chair at the University of California, at Berkeley.
- 2910/08/1966Claire Messud (born 1966) is an American novelist and literature and creative writing professor. She is best known as the author of the novel The Emperor's Children (2006).
- Claire Jennings is a film and television producer.
