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Glenn Close

Birth date: 19.03.1947

Glenn Close (born March 19, 1947) is a five-time Academy Award-nominated American film and stage actress. Close is an Emmy Award- winning TV movie actress, a three-time Tony Award-winning stage actress and has been nominated for seven Emmys and seven Golden Globes. Close was born in Greenwich, Connecticut to Bettine (née Moore) and William Taliaferro Close, a doctor who operated a clinic in the Belgian Congo and served as a personal physician to President Mobutu Sese Seko. Her parents came from upper-class families; her paternal grandfather, Edward Bennett Close, a stockbroker and director of the American Hospital Association, was first married to Post Cereals' heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post, making Glenn Close a relative of screenwriter/director Preston Sturges and actress Dina Merrill. Close is also a second cousin once removed of Brooke Shields. Shields's great-grandmother Mary Elsie Moore (wife of Don Marino Torlonia, 4th Prince di Civitella-Cesi) was Close's great-aunt, a sister of Close's maternal grandfather, Charles Arthur Moore. Close attended Choate Rosemary Hall, a private boarding school in Connecticut. Michael Douglas, her co-star in Fatal Attraction, also attended Choate Rosemary Hall. Glenn also attended the College of William and Mary, becoming a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Close has had a lengthy career as a versatile actress and performer. Close is remembered for her chilling roles as the scheming aristocrat Madame de Merteuil in Dangerous Liaisons and as the psychotic book editor Alex in Fatal Attraction. She has been nominated for 5 Academy Awards, for Best Actress in Dangerous Liaisons and Fatal Attraction and for Best Supporting Actress in The Natural, The Big Chill and The World According to Garp. She played the role of Sunny von Bülow in the 1990 film Reversal of Fortune to critical acclaim. In the 1990s, Close took on challenging roles on television as well. She starred in the highly rated presentation of the 1991 Hallmark Hall of Fame drama Sarah, Plain and Tall (and its two sequels) and also in the made-for-TV movie Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (1995); from these roles she was nominated for 8 Emmys (winning one) and 7 Golden Globes (winning one 2005). She also appeared in the newsroom comedy-drama The Paper (1994), the alien invasion satire Mars Attacks! (1996, as The First Lady), the Disney hit 101 Dalmatians and 102 Dalmatians (1996, as the sinister Cruella de Vil) and the blockbuster Air Force One (1997), as the trustworthy vice-president to Harrison Ford's president. In 2001 she starred in an elaborate production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic musical South Pacific. In 2005, Close joined the FX crime series The Shield, in which she played a no-nonsense precinct captain. Her appearance on the cop drama was such a success that she is now starring in a new hit series of her own for 2007, Damages (also on FX) instead of continuing her character on the Shield. Close has had an extensive career performing in many Broadway musicals. One of her most notable roles on stage was Norma Desmond in the Andrew Lloyd Webber production of Sunset Boulevard where Close won a Tony award playing the role on Broadway in 1994. Close was also a guest star, at the Andrew Lloyd Webber fiftieth birthday party celebration, in the Royal Albert Hall in 1998. She appeared as Norma Desmond and performed songs from Sunset Boulevard. Close is being considered to reprise the role of Norma Desmond in the 2008 film Sunset Boulevard, based on the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical. The film has not started production.. In addition to Sunset Boulevard, Close also won Tony Awards in 1984 for The Real Thing and in 1992 for Death and the Maiden.

Filmography

# Sunset Boulevard (2009) .... Norma Desmond # "Damages" .... Patty Hewes (8 episodes, 2007) - Blame the Victim (2007) TV Episode .... Patty Hewes - We Are Not Animals (2007) TV Episode .... Patty Hewes - She Spat at Me (2007) TV Episode .... Patty Hewes - A Regular Earl Anthony (2007) TV Episode .... Patty Hewes - Tastes Like a Ho-Ho (2007) TV Episode .... Patty Hewes (3 more) # Evening (2007) .... Mrs. Wittenborn # Tarzan II (2005) (V) (voice) .... Kala ... aka Tarzan 2 (Australia: DVD title) # "The Shield" .... Captain Monica Rawling (13 episodes, 2005) - Ain't That a Shame (2005) TV Episode .... Captain Monica Rawling - Judas Priest (2005) TV Episode .... Captain Monica Rawling - A Thousand Deaths (2005) TV Episode .... Captain Monica Rawling - Back in the Hole (2005) TV Episode .... Captain Monica Rawling - String Theory (2005) TV Episode .... Captain Monica Rawling (8 more) # The Chumscrubber (2005) .... Carrie Johnson ... aka Glück in kleinen Dosen (Germany) # Nine Lives (2005) .... Maggie # Hoodwinked! (2005) (voice) .... Granny # Heights (2004) .... Diana # The Stepford Wives (2004) .... Claire Wellington # Strip Search (2004) (TV) .... Karen Moore # "The West Wing" .... Chief Justice Evelyn Baker Lang / ... (1 episode, 2004) - The Supremes (2004) TV Episode .... Justice/Chief Justice Evelyn Baker Lang # The Lion in Winter (2003) (TV) .... Eleanor of Aquitaine # "The Simpsons" .... Mother Simpson (2 episodes, 1995-2003) - My Mother the Carjacker (2003) TV Episode (voice) .... Mother Simpson - Mother Simpson (1995) TV Episode (voice) .... Mother Simpson # Divorce, Le (2003) .... Olivia Pace # Brush with Fate (2003) (TV) .... Cornelia Engelbrecht # Pinocchio (2002) (voice: English version) .... Blue Fairy ... aka Roberto Benigni's Pinocchio (USA: promotional title) # "Will & Grace" .... Fanny Lieber (1 episode, 2002) - Hocus Focus (2002) TV Episode .... Fanny Lieber # The Safety of Objects (2001) .... Esther Gold # South Pacific (2001) (TV) .... Nellie Forbush ... aka Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific (USA: complete title) # The Ballad of Lucy Whipple (2001) (TV) .... Arvella Whipple ... aka California Gold (New Zealand: English title: video title) # 102 Dalmatians (2000) .... Cruella de Vil # Baby (2000) (TV) (voice) .... Adult Sophie # Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (2000) .... Dr. Elaine Keener (segments "This is Dr. Keener" and "Fantasies about Rebecca") # Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End (1999) (TV) .... Sarah Witting # Tarzan (1999) (voice) .... Kala # Cookie's Fortune (1999) .... Camille Dixon # Air Force One (1997) .... Vice President Kathryn Bennett ... aka AFO ... aka Air Force One (Germany) # In the Gloaming (1997) (TV) .... Janet # Paradise Road (1997) .... Adrienne Pargiter # Mars Attacks! (1996) .... First Lady Marsha Dale # 101 Dalmatians (1996) .... Cruella De Vil # Mary Reilly (1996) .... Mrs. Farraday # Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (1995) (TV) .... Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer ... aka Serving in Silence (USA: short title) # The Paper (1994) .... Alicia Clark # The House of the Spirits (1993) .... Férula Trueba ... aka Åndernes hus (Denmark) ... aka A Casa dos Espíritos (Portugal) ... aka Geisterhaus, Das (Germany) # Skylark (1993) (TV) .... Sarah Witting ... aka Sarah, Plain and Tall: Skylark (USA) # Lincoln (1992) (TV) (voice) .... Mary Todd Lincoln # "Saturday Night Live" .... Host (2 episodes, 1989-1992) ... aka NBC's Saturday Night (USA: first season title) ... aka SNL (USA: informal title) ... aka SNL 25 (USA: alternative title) ... aka Saturday Night (USA: second season title) ... aka Saturday Night Live '80 (USA: sixth season title) - Glenn Close/Black Crowes (1992) TV Episode .... Host - Glen Close/Gipsy Kings (1989) TV Episode .... Host # Hook (1991) .... Gutless # Meeting Venus (1991) .... Karin Anderson # Sarah, Plain and Tall (1991) (TV) .... Sarah Wheaton # Hamlet (1990/I) .... Gertrude # She'll Take Romance (1990) (TV) ... aka I'll Take Romance (USA) # Reversal of Fortune (1990) .... Sunny von Bülow/Narrator # Immediate Family (1989) .... Linda Spector # Dangerous Liaisons (1988) .... Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil # Stones for Ibarra (1988) (TV) .... Sara Everton # Gandahar (1988) (voice: English version) .... Ambisextra ... aka Light Years (USA) # Fatal Attraction (1987) .... Alex Forrest # Maxie (1985) .... Jan/Maxie ... aka Free Spirit # Jagged Edge (1985) .... Teddy Barnes # The Natural (1984) .... Iris Gaines # The Stone Boy (1984) .... Ruth Hillerman # Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984) (voice) (uncredited) .... Miss Jane Porter # Something About Amelia (1984) (TV) .... Gail Bennett # The Big Chill (1983) .... Sarah Cooper # The World According to Garp (1982) .... Jenny Fields # The Elephant Man (1982) (TV) .... Princess Alexandra ... aka ABC Theatre of the Month: The Elephant Man (USA: series title) # Orphan Train (1979) (TV) .... Jessica # Too Far to Go (1979) (TV) .... Rebecca Kuehn # The Rules of the Game (1975) (TV) .... Neighbor