Claire Danes
Native New Yorker Claire Danes started studying method acting at the prestigious Lee Strasberg Theater Institute when she was only 10 years old. It clearly paid off. By 15, she had won a Golden Globe for playing the insightful, angst-ridden Angela Chase in My So-Called Life. Despite only lasting 19 episodes, the show captured the zeitgeist of the times, paved the way for future mercurial TV teens like Dawson Leary and catapulted Danes to the A list. Her porcelain skin and perfect pout has always had luck with literary adaptations (Little Women, Baz Luhrmann's Romeo and Juliet, The Rainmaker, The
