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Yeah, there was the Flora Plum thing, where I trained for about a month and I had taken a semester off for that, and two weeks prior to filming, the financing collapsed.

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