When fellow pros talk about Claire Danes, certain words and phrases come up again and again: professional. Dedicated. Fearless. Immensely talented. In fact, Danes? talent is so startling that she intimidated Marshall Herskovitz, then an executive producer of ?My So-Called Life,? when he first met her. Herskovitz says when Danes was 13 years old, her genius was so evident that it was actually difficult to talk to her. And 'Homeland' creator Alex Gansa says he began creating the show after seeing Danes's extraordinary performance in ?Temple Grandin."
Gansa says Danes relishes playing difficult characters. He says she likes an intellectual challenge, and a character who?s a puzzle." Claire Danes receives her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Thursday, September 24th.
