Article: Claire Danes: start remembering her name - you're going to need to know it. (Interview)

CLAIRE DANES: My name is Claire. I'm fifteen years old. I grew up in New York, on Crosby Street in SoHo. Nobody else in my family acts.

MARK MARVEL: So how did you get involved in acting?

CD: It's kind of a long story; I guess everybody has a long story. I've danced since I was a little girl--modern dance. I did a few artsy-fartsy dance performances on the Lower East Side, and that got me started performing. Then I went to the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute when I was eleven, and I learned more about what acting was and I loved it. Then I went to this brand-new performing arts junior high because I hated my elementary school and I wanted to get out.

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