Great Danes

By Jay Bobbin

Questions:

1) Claire Danes makes a now-rare television appearance by playing an autistic expert in animal behavior in the fact-inspired HBO drama Temple Grandin. Name the role that made Danes a star in the 1994-95 ABC series My So-Called Life.

2) Which Oscar-winning actress directed the 1995 movie comedy Home for the Holidays, in which Danes co-starred?

3) Who played Romeo to Danes’ Juliet in director Baz Luhrmann’s musical 1996 take on the Shakespeare classic?

4) Danes was in the cast of the 1997 law drama The Rainmaker. On whose novel was the film based?

5) In which 1999 movie update of a classic television series did Danes play an undercover police detective named Julie Barnes?

6) Danes played one of two young women jailed in Thailand in the 1999 drama Brokedown Palace. Who played the other?

7) Name the Oscar-winning 2002 film in which Meryl Streep played Danes’ mother.

8) Danes starred opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger in one of the last movies he’s made to date. What was it?

9) In Shopgirl (2005), Danes had the title role as a young woman who attracted the film’s star and writer. Who is he?

10) The Family Stone (2005) featured Danes as the sister of a woman who seemed to be on the verge of marrying into the title clan. Who played Danes’ extremely nervous sibling?

Answers:

1) Angela Chase

2) Jodie Foster

3) Leonardo DiCaprio

4) John Grisham

5) The Mod Squad

6) Kate Beckinsale

7) “The Hours”

8) Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)

9) Steve Martin

10) Sarah Jessica Parker