Glenn Close Born: Mar 19, 1947 in Greenwich, Connecticut Occupation: Actor, Active: '80s-2000s Major Genres: Drama, Comedy Career Highlights: Dangerous Liaisons, Reversal of Fortune, Something About Amelia First Major Screen Credit: Too Far to Go (1979)
| Filmography | | NATURAL, THE 1984 | | JAGGED EDGE 1985 | | IMMEDIATE FAMILY 1989 | | BIG CHILL, THE 1983 | | DANGEROUS LIAISONS 1988 | | REVERSAL OF FORTUNE 1990 | | WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP, THE 1982 | | FATAL ATTRACTION 1987 | | MAXIE 1985 | | RABBIT EARS STORYBOOK SERIES 1985 | | SARAH, PLAIN AND TALL 1991 | | HAMLET 1990 | | MEETING VENUS 1991 | | SKYLARK 1993 | | HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS, THE 1994 | | PAPER, THE 1994 | | MARY REILLY 1996 | | MARS ATTACKS! 1996 | | IN THE GLOAMING 1997 | | PARADISE ROAD 1997 | | AIR FORCE ONE 1997 | | COOKIE'S FORTUNE 1999 | | ANNE FRANK REMEMBERED 1995 | | THINGS YOU CAN TELL JUST BY LOOKING AT HER 2000 | | SERVING IN SILENCE: THE MARGARETHE CAMMERMEYER STORY 1995 | | SAFETY OF OBJECTS, THE 2001 | | STEPFORD WIVES 2004 | | LION IN WINTER, THE 2002 | | NINE LIVES 2005 | | STONE BOY, THE 1983 | | HEIGHTS 2005 | | HOODWINKED 2005 | | EVENING 2007 | | NATURAL: DIRECTOR'S CUT, THE 2007 | | DAMAGES: THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON 2008 | | TARZAN SPECIAL EDITION 2007 |
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With elegantly aristocratic features and a career marked by versatility and critical acclaim, Glenn Close is one of Hollywood's most celebrated actresses. Her acclaim is not limited to the film world, as she has also found great success in various television and stage productions, most notably Andrew Lloyd Webber's Broadway musical version of {+Sunset Boulevard} and in the acclaimed 1991 made-for-TV movie Sarah, Plain and Tall (which was successful enough to have two sequels, Skylark and Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End.
Born in Greenwich, CT, on March 19, 1947, Close grew up in Africa and Switzerland while her father, a doctor, maintained a clinic in the Belgian Congo. As a high school student at Greenwich's Rosemary Hall, the actress organized a touring rep-theater group and performed a number of folk-singing gigs. After graduating from the College of William and Mary, where she studied anthropology and acting, Close appeared in regional theater and then made her New York stage bow in 1974's {+Love for Love}. Her theater work led to her first film role, when director George Roy Hill, after seeing her in the Broadway musical {+Barnum}, cast her in The World According to Garp (1982). Close won the role of the protagonist's political-activist mother, a portrayal made all the more interesting by the fact that the actress was only five years older than Robin Williams, the actor playing her son. Close earned an Oscar nomination for her work, thus catalyzing the acclaim that was to surround much of her subsequent career.
Close worked steadily through the remainder of the 1980s, winning Oscar nominations for her divergent performances in The Big Chill (1983), The Natural (1984), and Fatal Attraction (1987). In the last of these films, she all but caused the screen to combust with her fearsome portrayal of a woman who gets very, very angry with Michael Douglas. As evidence of her remarkable versatility, Close avoided being typecast as similarly psychotic women, going on to win another Oscar nomination the next year for her devastatingly wicked performance in Dangerous Liaisons.
Further acclaim followed with her role as Sunny Von Bulow in Reversal of Fortune (1990), and Close spent the next decade turning in consistently strong performances in films both good and bad, from the critically and commercially lambasted Mary Reilly (1994) to the all-star Mars Attacks! (1996); 101 Dalmatians (1996), in which she got in touch with her inner drag queen as Cruella De Vil; and Air Force One (1997), which featured her as President Harrison Ford's harried Vice President. In 1999, Close took on two very different roles, first lending her voice to the animated Tarzan as the hero's gorilla mother, and then in Robert Altman's Cookie's Fortune, in which she was able to explore Southern-style insanity as the terrifically unhinged Camille Orcutt.
In addition to her film work, Close has maintained a television and stage career since the early '80s. Her stage work led to Tony Awards for her turns in Tom Stoppard's {+The Real Thing} (1984) and Ariel Dorfman's {+Death and the Maiden} in 1992. She garnered further raves and diva status for her starring role as the legendary Norma Desmond in the 1995 Broadway production of {+Sunset Boulevard} (an excellent singer, Close annually performs the National Anthem for the New York Mets' opening-day game).
On television, she continued to win prestige for performances in Stones for Ibarra (1988), 1991's Sarah, Plain and Tall, in which she starred opposite Christopher Walken, and Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (1995), for which she won an Emmy for her portrayal of the title character. However, it wasn't until 2005 that Close could be seen in a regular series role when she joined the cast of the critically acclaimed FX series The Shield. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, All Movie Guide.
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