Claire Danes revealed this week that she personally knew Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and still retains strong memories of her.Both blondes catapulted to international fame in the 1990s, Bessette through her doomed romance with John F Kennedy Jr and Danes as a teen actress.They came into contact with one another because they had a mutual friend in Narciso Rodriguez, the designer of Bessette's wedding dress.In 1996, the year Bessette exchanged vows with JFK Jr, Danes became a bona fide movie star playing opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in Romeo + Juliet, having already made her bones on the TV show My So-Called Life.Danes, 47, divulged the connection while participating in an actress roundtable with Sarah Pidgeon, who played the female lead in Ryan Murphy's buzzy new FX series Love Story: John F Kennedy Jr and Carolyn Bessette. 'You did a great job,' Danes told Pidgeon during the chat for the Hollywood Reporter, to which the younger actress replied: 'Thank you. That means a lot to me.' Claire Danes revealed this week that she personally knew Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and still harbors strong memories of her; Danes is pictured June 1 at the Gotham TV Awards Bessette Kennedy is pictured at the Fire and Ice Ball in December 1998, less than a year before the plane crash that killed her, her sister Lauren and John F Kennedy JrDanes had explained: 'Narciso Rodriguez is a good friend of mine, and I met her through him a number of times. I remember her pretty vividly.'She wore a Narciso Rodriguez dress less than two weeks ago when she attended the Gotham Television Awards in New York on the arm of her husband Hugh Dancy.Rodriguez was still a relatively obscure designer when Bessette selected him to design her bridal gown, which instantly made him a global name.Bessette and Rodriguez had developed a tight bond while working together for Calvin Klein, he as a design assistant and she as a publicist. Danes turned 20 just three months before Bessette, her sister Lauren and JFK Jr plunged to their death in the sea just off Martha's Vineyard, in a private plane he was piloting in conditions for which he was uncertified. During the recent actress roundtable, before revealing her personal link to Bessette, Danes asked Pidgeon: 'What was the raw material you used for Carolyn?''There are a lot of photographs of Carolyn, but so much of it is after she gained public recognition,' explained Pidgeon, for whom Love Story was a career breakthrough.'You hold yourself in a very different way, as I’m sure you all know, when someone’s taking your photo [versus] you’re trying to go to the grocery store,' she observed. Her remarks came in the wake of the massive publicity whirlwind around Ryan Murphy's show Love Story: John F Kennedy Jr & Carolyn Bessette; the real couple are pictured in 1995 Danes offered praise to Sarah Pidgeon for her leading performance in Ryan Murphy's FX series Love Story: John F Kennedy Jr and Carolyn Bessette In 1996, the year Bessette exchanged vows with JFK Jr, Danes became a bona fide movie star by playing opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in Romeo + Juliet Danes wore a Narciso Rodriguez dress less than two weeks ago when she attended the Gotham Television Awards in New York on the arm of her husband Hugh Dancy'And there were far less candid photos that her friends took. There was some videography, very little in terms of her vocal expression. I would curse, like: "Why can’t I just have two and a half minutes of her candidly speaking?"'Danes' disclosure about her acquaintance with Bessette comes after Madonna's viral bombshell about her 1980s dalliance with JFK Jr. Madonna, 67, was recently asked to reveal her 'best f***,' and after insisting she would 'only name dead people,' whispered: 'John Kennedy Jr.' JFK Jr's six-month runaround with Madonna took place in 1988 during her separation from her first husband Sean Penn, captivating the public.The fling, however, apparently appalled his mother Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, according to J Randy Taraborrelli's biography Jackie: Public, Private, Secret.'There are millions of intelligent women on this planet,' said Jackie: 'why must you go out with the only one who calls herself a "Material Girl?"''Oh really, Mummy,' he retorted: 'who in the world is more materialistic than you?'After their split, Madonna and JFK Jr retained a friendly enough equation that in the 1990s he allegedly asked her to cover his political magazine George.‘John had this idea of having Madonna pose on the cover as his mom,’ his chief of staff RoseMarie Terenzio told People. ‘We would dress her in a suit, her signature sunglasses. And a pillbox hat sitting on a stack of books.’ Madonna apparently rebuffed the offer with a tongue-in-cheek fax that read: ‘Dear Johnny boy, Thanks for asking me to be your mother, but I’m afraid, I could never do her justice. My eyebrows aren’t thick enough for one.’