Glenn Close Born: 19-Mar-1947 Birthplace: Greenwich, CT
Gender: Female Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Actor Party Affiliation: Democratic Nationality: United States Executive summary: Fatal Attraction Glenn Close spent her first few years on her family's 250-acre farm. When she was 7, the family joined a cult called Moral Re-Armament, which seeks to improve human society by providing dogmatic guidelines for better human behavior. When she was a teenager, the family moved to what is now Zaire, in Africa. Her father, a doctor, operated a clinic there, and Close and the other children were shuttled between Africa and boarding schools in Switzerland. After graduating from Choate, Close joined the conservative folk group Up With People. They toured the nation, providing sort of a traveling musical revival meeting, singing chipper songs appealing to the "traditional family values" set. Close eventually grew tired of this, and she now refers to her time with Up With People as "my lost years".
She studied drama at the College of William and Mary, and made her Broadway debut in a 1974 production of Love for Love. Her film debut came in 1982, as Robin Williams' arch-feminist mother in The World According to Garp. Sixty million viewers saw her Emmy-winning performance in the made-for-TV incest drama Something About Amelia. She starred in Fatal Attraction, the thriller that added "bunny boiler" to the cultural lexicon. Her other famous roles include Sarah, Plain and Tall, The Big Chill, The Natural, Jagged Edge, Dangerous Liaisons, Reversal of Fortune, The Stepford Wives, and the dramatization of 101 Dalmatians.
Close and Barbra Streisand served as executive producers, and Close starred, in Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story, one of the first major network dramas to deal with lesbian themes. Close dubbed all of Andie MacDowell's dialogue in Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, when that movie's producers decided MacDowell's southern accent was too thick for northerners to understand. She's also the voice of Homer's mother on The Simpsons, the hippie-cum-fugitive Mona Simpson.
A baseball fan, Close sings the National Anthem for the New York Mets' home opener every year. Close and her sister own a coffee shop and bookstore near Bozeman, Montana.
Father: William T. Close (doctor, operated a clinic in Belgian Congo) Mother: Bettine Moore Sister: Tina Close Brother: Sandy Close Sister: Jessie Close Husband: Cabot Wade (rock guitarist, m. 22-Nov-1969, div. 2-Oct-1971) Boyfriend: Kevin Kline (actor, together 1970s) Boyfriend: Len Cariou (actor, cohabited 1979-83) Husband: James Marlas (businessman, m. 1-Sep-1984, div. 27-Feb-1987) Boyfriend: John Starke (producer, together late 1980s-1991, one daughter) Daughter: Annie Maude Starke (b. 26-Apr-1988) Boyfriend: Woody Harrelson (actor, together 1991) Boyfriend: Cam Neely (hockey player, together 1992) Boyfriend: Stephen Beers (woodworker, together 1995-99, broken engagement) Boyfriend: Robert Pastorelli (actor, together 1999-2004) Husband: David Shaw (biotech executive, m. 3-Feb-2006)
High School: Choate Rosemary Hall, Wallingford, CT University: BA Drama and Anthropology, College of William and Mary
Emmy 1995 for Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story Emmy 2008 for Damages Golden Globe 2005 for The Lion in Winter Golden Globe 2008 for Damages Tony 1984 for The Real Thing Tony 1994 for Sunset Blvd. Tony 2002 for Death and the Maiden Dean for America Hillary Clinton for President Hillary Rodham Clinton for US Senate Committee Hollywood Women's Political Committee Obama for America Phi Beta Kappa Society Tony (three times)
TELEVISION Damages Patty Hewes (2007-) The Shield Capt.Monica Rawling (2005)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR Father Figures (21-Dec-2017) Crooked House (31-Oct-2017) The Wife (12-Sep-2017) What Happened to Monday (6-Aug-2017) The Girl with All the Gifts (3-Aug-2016) Guardians of the Galaxy (21-Jul-2014) 5 to 7 (19-Apr-2014) Low Down (19-Jan-2014) Albert Nobbs (2-Sep-2011) Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil (29-Apr-2011) · Granny [VOICE] Evening (9-Jun-2007) · Mrs. Wittenborn Tarzan II (14-Jun-2005) [VOICE] The Chumscrubber (25-Jan-2005) Heights (24-Jan-2005) · Diana Nine Lives (24-Jan-2005) · Maggie The Stepford Wives (6-Jun-2004) · Claire Wellington Hoodwinked (16-May-2004) [VOICE] Strip Search (27-Apr-2004) The Lion in Winter (26-Dec-2003) · Eleanor of Aquitaine Le Divorce (8-Aug-2003) · Olivia Pace Brush with Fate (2-Feb-2003) The Safety of Objects (24-Apr-2001) · Esther Gold South Pacific (26-Mar-2001) The Ballad of Lucy Whipple (18-Feb-2001) 102 Dalmatians (22-Nov-2000) Welcome to Hollywood (27-Oct-2000) · Herself Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (22-Jan-2000) · Elaine Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End (21-Nov-1999) · Sarah Witting Tarzan (17-Jun-1999) [VOICE] Cookie's Fortune (22-Jan-1999) · Camille Dixon Air Force One (25-Jul-1997) · Vice President Kathryn Bennett In the Gloaming (20-Apr-1997) · Janet Paradise Road (11-Apr-1997) · Adrienne Pargiter Mars Attacks! (13-Dec-1996) · Marsha Dale 101 Dalmatians (27-Nov-1996) Mary Reilly (23-Feb-1996) · Mrs. Farraday Anne Frank Remembered (8-Jun-1995) [VOICE] Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (6-Feb-1995) The Paper (18-Mar-1994) · Alicia Clark The House of the Spirits (21-Oct-1993) · Ferula Skylark (7-Feb-1993) Hook (11-Dec-1991) · Gutless Meeting Venus (18-Sep-1991) Sarah, Plain and Tall (3-Feb-1991) Hamlet (19-Dec-1990) Reversal of Fortune (12-Sep-1990) · Sunny von Bulow Immediate Family (27-Oct-1989) Dangerous Liaisons (16-Dec-1988) · Marquise de Merteuil Stones for Ibarra (29-Jan-1988) Fatal Attraction (11-Sep-1987) · Alex Forrest Maxie (11-Sep-1985) Jagged Edge (5-Sep-1985) · Teddy Barnes The Natural (11-May-1984) · Iris Something About Amelia (9-Jan-1984) The Stone Boy (1984) The Big Chill (9-Sep-1983) · Sarah The World According to Garp (23-Jul-1982) Orphan Train (22-Dec-1979) Too Far to Go (12-Mar-1979)
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