Claire Danes to Be Honored at Gotham Television Awards (EXCLUSIVE)

Claire Danes will receive the Performer Tribute at this year’s Gotham Television Awards. The third annual event takes place lie on June 1 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City. 

The recognition pays tribute to Danes’ storied career across film and television, including her roles in “The Beast in Me,” “Fleishman Is in Trouble,” “Homeland” and more. First gaining recognition as Angela Chase in the 1994 one-season wonder “My So-Called Life,” Danes went on to make her film debut in “Little Woman,” with “Romeo + Juliet” following soon after.

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“There is a quality in Claire Danes’s work – a willingness to be seen thinking, to let feeling arrive before language does – that has made her one of the few performers we have trusted completely for 30 years now,” said Jeffrey Sharp, executive director of the Gotham Film & Media Institute. “Whatever the role, whatever the medium, she meets it with the whole of herself, and we are changed a little each time by what she finds there. The Gotham is honored to recognize Claire with the Performer Tribute in recognition of her extraordinary career and her most recent incarnation as Aggie Wiggs in ‘The Beast in Me.’”

Danes’ expansive list of credits also includes “Temple Grandin,” “The Essex Serpent,” “The Rainmaker,” “Brokedown Palace,” “The Hours,” “Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines,” “Shopgirl” and “Stardust.” Danes has won three Primetime Emmy Awards and four Golden Globes. 

During the Gotham Television Awards, Michelle Pfeiffer will receive the Legend Tribute and Matt and Ross Duffer will receive the Visionary Tribute for their hit Netflix series “Stranger Things.” 

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