With an interest in dance and acting from an early age, Claire Danes started acting in student films by the time she was 13 years old and broke into the industry with some of her best movies and TV shows as a teenager. She got her start thanks to a handful of roles in her native New York before making the move to California, which paid off since it gave her the big breaks of the 1994 adaptation of Little Women and the now cult-classic My So-Called Life.