Claire Danes will receive the Performer Tribute Award at this year’s Gotham Television Awards. The third annual event will be held on June 1st at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City.
The recognition honors Danes’ storied career in film and television, including roles in The Beast in Me, Fleishman Is in Trouble, Homeland, and more. Danes, who first gained attention as Angela Chase in the 1994 one-season masterpiece My So Called Life, made her film debut in Little Women, followed shortly by Romeo + Juliet.
“There’s a quality to Claire Danes’ work where you want to be seen thinking, where your emotions come before your words, and that makes her one of the few performers we’ve trusted completely for 30 years,” said Jeffrey Sharp, executive director of the Gotham Film & Media Institute. “No matter the role, no matter the medium, she brings her whole self to it, and what she finds in it leaves us a little bit different each time. The Gotham is honored to recognize Claire in our Performer Tribute in recognition of her extraordinary career and most recently as Aggie Whigs on The Beast in Me.”
Danes’ extensive list of credits also includes “Temple Grandin,” “The Essex Serpent,” “The Rainmaker,” “Brookedown Palace,” “The Hours,” “Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines,” “Shopgirl” and “Stardust.” Danes has won three Primetime Emmy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards.
At the Gotham Television Awards, Michelle Pfeiffer will receive the Legend Award for the hit Netflix series “Stranger Things,” and Matt Duffer and Ross Duffer will receive the Visionary Award.
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