Complex sentence: Danes has described her background as being "as WASPy as you can get"; her paternal grandfather, Gibson Andrew Danes (1910--1992 in Litchfield, Connecticut), was the dean of the art and architecture school at Yale University.
Split into simpler sentences: Danes has described her background as being "as WASPy as you can get". Her paternal grandfather, Gibson Andrew Danes (1910--1992 in Litchfield, Connecticut), was the dean of the art and architecture school at Yale University.