3 photos in galleryI used to be kind of neither here nor there on Claire Danes. YES, I loved My So-Called Life, and I cried when she died in Little Women, but I feel like she went through a long period where all she did was show up places looking smug — and the whole Billy Crudup-Mary Louise Parker thing was awkward for everyone at best. But it was hard not to be worn over by Temple Grandin (and Temple Grandin), and she is so HARD CORE AWESOME on Homeland that now I totally love her. We call this the Chloe Sevigny Effect — I once said, on these very pages, when I was younger and meaner, “f$%ck your umlat, Chloe Sevigny” — and now I love her, because she was so freaking great on Big Love. I am very fickle, you guys, and extremely easily swayed by someone who is really good at her job. ANYWAY. We love you now, Claire, and we are very happy you won, AND we liked your outfit. LOVE FEST! Let’s take a look.
Golden Globes Well Played, Claire Danes
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Comments (55):
The Billy Crup/Mary-Louise parker thing, actually. Hugh Dancy came afterwards and is untainted by that mess.
I just think she’s too skinny, too blonde, too mainstream these days. I’d like to see some softness.
Yes, it was just a brain fart — we worked a really long day yesterday.
Absolutely love the back. The front? Meh.
Definitely the Billy Crudup thing– I’m not exactly a prude about these sorts of things, but helping break-up the marriage of a woman 7-months pregnant is pretty damn despicable. Considering she’s now married to a man who is NOT Billy Crudup, she can’t even plead the “love of my life” defense.
I saw her at my gym in New York once– she’s the same tiny brittle blonde hollywood robot as every other starlet.
Also, the back of the dress is far better than the front.
Well, not that I’m defending her behaviour, but shouldn’t Billy take the brunt of this loathing? He’s the one who was married to the pregnant wife after all, and should actually care whether she was hurt.
(As for the ‘wife’ in question – I think she’s clearly better off. I broke up with MY phildandering husband when I was pregnant, and I gotta say – it was one of the best decisions I made in my whole life.)
This is why I said she “helped break up” a marriage. Billy Crudup deserves the most blame here, but pursuing a married man, a man you know is married to a woman 7-months pregnant, is pretty damn bad. Definitely not good form, and definitely not blame-free.
And yes, Mary-Louise Parker is clearly better off now, but maybe the extracurriculars could wait a minute or two and the baby could take precedence.
@Kit YES! Can we get some cheater-blaming up in here. I’m not saying it’s totally fine on a woman’s part to get involved with a married guy, not at all, but.
I understand that Billy & Mary-Louise were never married!
Well, they had been together for years and she was having his baby. I think at that point, it’s kind of analogous, no? Regardless.
Maybe the relationship was for all intents and purposes over before Claire came into the picture. We don’t know (or at least, I don’t).
It’s too bad the photos don’t show how sparkly the dress was. I absolutely loved this.
I dunno. This dress has been getting kudos everywhere, and I was really underwhelmed by it. Love her – no question, but the dress? Not so much…
I love the back–I love the shape it seems to give her butt.
Ooh, I was thinking the EXACT opposite! It looks like her right butt cheek is extra-wide, like extreme saddle bags. Not flattering!!!
The front seemed baggy in an awkward way when she was on stage accepting her award.
Yes, and it was baggy on the red carpet, too. And headlight-y. But I do love the rest of it.
Very headlighty. Girlfriend needed some stickers or somethin. But the back is gorgeous…a close-up of just the upper part would’ve sold the haters.
I love my GFY but would love even more if you could identify the designers of all these amazeballs dresses, think of it as fashion education!
I like the dress a lot. I don’t love it, mind, but I do like it. It does not offend me at all. I have mostly tried to forgive Angela Chase for the Billy Crudup thing, particularly because Mary Louise is doing fabulously without that loser anyway. But it has been hard — it was not cool what she did.
I’ve always loved her and I ADORE THIS DRESS!!! It’s simple, but it makes a statement and she has the body and presence to pull it off! Also, love the hair, makeup & jewels! She looks GORGEOUS and SEXY! One of the BEST dressed of the night, next to Angelina & SWINTON!
Skirt’s a skosh too tight, it’s pulling across her hips and doing strange things to her tush. But the bodice is great, I agree, and the whole thing is striking.
I’m don’t care for her. I also don’t care for Homeland. Lastly, I don’t care for this dress. Yes the back is cool but the front just seems weird to me. I don’t like the top. There’s something about the way the black bits frame the white that look harsh and pointy.
Sorry -not loving this dress. You see the dress more than you see her.
The dress needed a better liner or she needed a better stick-on bra while she was on stage, because girlfriend’s headlights were on. :/
The dress is growing on me, especially in the shots where she’s more or less standing up straight, but the makeup and hair are not working for me at all…and I say that trying very hard to be neutral on her instead of having my typical kneejerk dislike when I see her name. I do appreciate that she isn’t a classic beauty AND she’s working a great dress anyway. It would be so annoyingly boring if we all looked the same (or like Heidi K). But I wish there were something else going on, style-wise. Rooney Mara has a cute-goth edge to her intensity, but CD is ALL intense, all the time, and it’s hard to find a softer, accessible feature to connect with.
Oh I love this dress!! And I think her hair & makeup were divine! Well played!
I know it’s in, but I really don’t like the red lip look. It says “hey! I’m wearing makeup!” instead of drawing attention to her eyes or dress. I’d really love this look if I could wash her face and start over.
I think she needs makeup/hair colour in a different, softer way. This deployment is a bit harsh, and too generic-starlet for me. Part of why I used to like her was her originality, and that’s been powerwashed off for the most part. More depth in the hair colour, and a bit softer on the face would help – she’s really pretty with stunning green eyes, and I can’t see any of that.
What I love about Claire Danes is that she has very small breasts in a place where so many women have too-big ones and she JUST DOESN’T CARE.
By “place” I mean Hollywood, not area of her body!
I noticed last night the bodice didn’t seem to fit / lay quite right – which is not surprising for a (practically) backless dress. I think it’s a lot more difficult to tailor a backless dress, but it needed a little work. And I would have included some sort of bra or support for the girls, no matter the size; small breasts need attention too. And I think she should go with darker hair, even if she thinks she’s a blond, her pale skin would look great against red or auburn hair!
I don’t really like this dress. And I feel like backless gowns are so common right now.
I like the dress, a lot. Her make up looks great. I really wish she’d darken her hair just a touch…. It looks brittle and lackluster and washes her out. While I’m not a fan, I think she’s very very pretty and it sort of takes away from that.
This was definitely one of my favorites!
I like this dress, but maybe not on her? Not sure, but it doesn’t seem to hit her in the right places. I feel that way about a lot of things she wears. She has a fabulous figure, but I suspect it’s one of those body types that can be hard to dress. I’m really liking Homeland, it’s like a slightly more intellectual 24 (but only slightly, if we’re being honest). But seriously, she’s terrible on it. Same with the lead guy. I can’t understand how she could win an award for it. She’s been good in a lot of things, but not Homeland. Completely miscast and unconvincing. Rant over
Too blonde and some sort of bra would have helped.
I love the dress, and not many have the figure to pull it off. It wouldn’t look quite right on someone with a larger chest. That being said, I really wish she had worn some sort of support undergarment under there. I’m also not a fan of the platinum hair– her roots are always showing on Homeland, and it just doesn’t look good.
I think what softened her for me was that she got Hugh Dancy – whom I love! Anyway, back to the matter at hand. This dress is ok. But it just blended in with the pack for me even if it’s considered more edgy. I really loved her choice last year, and this just felt a bit blah compared to it.
This is a boring dress on a wildly overrated, still-smug actress. Feh.
Great dress – something different, thought it suited her figure, back of it was amazing as well. Perhaps too much eye make-up in the close-ups (eyes looked crepey) looked ok from a distance though.
She looks like an elderly European heiress.
This dress is so unflattering from the front. It makes her look like she has the shoulders of a Chinese gold medallist swimmer. The back is lovely though. She should tone down the blonde too or speak to Ms Witherspoon about finding a better colourist. It’s taking on an orange tinge.
When I first saw this dress I was not impressed. But you’re right, the back is *lovely*. I wish the front was as nice. And I think your initial impression about her make up was right too- I think no smoky eye with the red lip would have looked better. And, what Rachel said about the hair color.
Wah Wah Wah- HAIR.
This was one of my favorite dresses, granted, I’m not a fou-fou type of gal. I’ll go for edgy and streamlined over ruffly and lacy any day. Love her for taking a risk, it’s what keeps things interesting.
Love the dress, Girl-Who-Was-Angela-Chase-Before-She-Grew-Up!
And I agree: she’s amazing on Homeland. I was so hoping she’d pull a Carrie Mathison last night in her acceptance speech (“f**k this s**t!”), but I’m over it.
Claire (and the rest of the cast) is awesome. <3
I thought she looked lovely – a bit overmade up though..heavy on the panstick but otherwise liked the red lipstick and the dress was beautiful. Slight issue for me was the no bra..I know she hasn’t really got breasts worth talking about BUT some form or nipple padding would have helped when she moved – it all looked a bit…Otherwise, great speech and I think she and Hhugh Dancy make a great couple. He’s a cutie!
She’s pulling the frightening smile she did so much in Les Miserables. *shudders* I don’t understand the appeal of her personally, her tooth-showing smiles just seem “off” and vaguely predatory to me.
I first saw her in that adaptation of Les Mis and like quite a few other actors can’t forgive her performance in a film of one of my favourite books.
On the sartorial side of things I think the dress is quite nice – not showing anything I don’t need to see, and the monochrome safeness is offset by the punk-y studding details. I’d just prefer to see it on someone I’m not irrationally prejudiced against.
people need to get over the billy crudup/mlp thing. seriously, everyone involved has moved on. except you guys.
and i like this dress but i think it’s unflattering to claire danes’ freakishly long torso, but the worst part is her horrible bleached blonde hair – it’s the colour of pee!
Word, on the gossip thing. And the hair thing, sadly.
Let me second or third or fourth the whole “broke up a marriage” baloney here. Couples break up all the time and it’s pretty clear that, pregnant or not, those two were through with each other so either one of them would have moved on with someone else. And it was a lifetime ago. It happens, it’s not new in the history of humanity, and it has nothing to do with how Clare Danes is dressed or how talented she is.
That said, this dress just looks “okay” in photos, which don’t do it justice. She looks great and I think her makeup is very pretty too.
I think her dress is super cute, as was her acceptance speech, but … her hair and face looked absolutely terrible to me. It looked so bad, I didn’t even really evaluate her dress until now. It’s true, she doesn’t look so terrible in these pictures, but on screen, her face was so shiny and messy. And her hair — it not just the color, but the style too. I hate how it’s pulled back, and it just looks scraggly and fried – which I guess is an effect of the bleach blonde thing. Again, I really love Claire Danes, her acting and that dress. I just wished she fixed every single thing from her neck up.
I’m on the side of Team Get Over The Billy Crudup Thing Already, people.
She’s a brilliant actress, she looks gorgeous here (though tired and rather drawn – it is hard to believe she and Morena Baccarin are the same age, if you go by their visages alone) and I love the dress. But I do wish she’d fix the hair colour.
i ate her hair color, so wanna be, generic blonde. so fake looking.
Didn’t she sneakily ditch Ben Lee for Crudup all those years ago? Talk about ancient history.
ANYWAY, I am neither here nor there with this dress. It’s fine, it seems to fit okay, I really don’t get all the gushing.