Celebrity Biographies
Glenn Close
Cinema and performing arts, in equal parts; Unlike many performers who only use the stage to take their first steps, Close has remained faithful, and successfully, to the support that launched her to fame.
Glenn Close (Connecticut, United States, 1947) descends from a family of aristocrats that has its roots in Scotland. Her father, a famous surgeon, established a clinic in the Belgian Congo in the 1960s, which is why young Glenn would spend her childhood halfway between Zaire, Switzerland (where she studied) and her native North America. .
She soon discovered her acting vocation and founded, together with some schoolmates, the theater group “The Fingernails”. Years later she toured Europe and the United States, as a soprano in the choir “Viva la gente”. In the early seventies she enrolled in Drama and Anthropology and soon after she left for New York with the New Phoenix Repertory company. Broadway theaters first saw her while she was substituting for the lead actress in William Congreve’s “Love for Love”.
His feature film debut was accompanied by an Oscar nomination. She was in the comedy The World According to Garp , by George Roy Hill , adapted from John Irving ‘s novel ( The Cider House Rules ), in which she played the nurse mother of the protagonist, Robin Williams . After this would come other successes, such as Reunion and The Best , with Robert Redford , Kim Basinger and Robert Duvall . For both she was again nominated for an Oscar for best supporting actress. And she only had three films!
Because of her sharp features, Close has often played temperamental and antagonistic roles: she was the evil Cruella de Vil in 101 Dalmatians (More Alive Than Ever) , the perverse and calculating Marquise de Merteuil in Dangerous Liaisons, and the obsessive Alex Forrest in the box office hit . Fatal Attraction , a role she obtained after passing an exhaustive casting process that included four other actresses, including Sharon Stone .
Although she has always performed like a fish to water in the cinema, Close has never left theater aside, and throughout her career she has been combining her performances in both formats. His stage performances have also often been accompanied by multiple awards.
This veteran actress has produced several documentaries and soundtracks, which have achieved recognition by experts. In addition, as a fan of the Mets, she has been chosen on numerous occasions to sing the national anthem at football games held in the New York stadium.
Among his best-known titles are The House of the Spirits ; Mars Attacks! , where we saw her surrounded by a great cast of professionals like Jack Nicholson , Annete Bening, Pierce Brosnan or Danny de Vito; Air Force One (The President’s plane) and Cookie’s Fortune .
His last work to date was in the film, El atardecer , released in 2007 and directed by Lajos Koltai ( Without Fate ).