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What role is Claire Danes best known for?

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Claire Danes is best known for her role as bipolar CIA agent Carrie Mathison in the TV series Homeland (2011–20). She first came to prominence as the star of the teen drama My So-Called Life (1994–95), which became a cult classic, and as the doomed heroine Juliet opposite Leonardo DiCaprio’s Romeo in the hit Shakespeare modernization Romeo + Juliet (1996).