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I would sign on for projects that were meant to shoot in July, and then they would postponed and they would bleed into the following semester, and then I'd take a semester off, and then the movie would collapse.

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Claire Danes
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: April 12
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Film Actor
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Television Actor
Manhattan borough
New York City
Claire Catherine Danes
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