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  AskMen.com - Glenn Close
Glenn Close has built her career around portraying intelligent, intense and free-spirited women who frequently remind us to treat them like ladies, or beware their wrath.
Star of stage, screen and television, critically acclaimed award-winning actress Glenn Close is regarded as one of the finest thespians of her generation.
Glenn Close was born on March 19, 1947, in Greenwich, Connecticut.
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  Gossip pÃ¥ Glenn Close
Glenn Close som låts vara och Rose Byrne i en plats från den lagliga thrilleren ”skadar,” premiering på FX.
Gör att ljudet som en Glenn Closeroll den är: den ärevördiga actressen, som har inte, hade en tänkvärd ledande roll i en film under flera år, har satt her syner på den lilla skärmen.
Glenn Close har landed rollen av pattyen Hewes, för stakeslitigatoren för a som högt - touted high - whos vets för att her unparalleled expertis och her kapacitet ska play och för att win, att mind games.
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 Royce Carlton - Glenn Close
Glenn Close made her film debut in 1982 as Jenny Fields in John Irving’s The World According to Garp, for which she received an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress, followed by further Best Supporting Oscar nominations for The Big Chill and The Natural.
Close served as executive producer and won an Emmy Award for her 1995 performance as Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer in Serving in Silence, which also garnered her a Peabody Award and Golden Globe nomination.
Close is a Trustee of The Sundance Institute, a position she has held for 15 years.
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 John Edwards is Good!
"Well, if it isn't Glenn Close, star of stage and screen, both big and little screens, winner of Emmies and Tonies, but never an Oscar, benefactor to every liberal Democrat, including Howard Dean, since FDR," announced Elizabeth Edwards.
Lyndon LaRouche is on the ballot too," Glenn Close shot back.
Close did she want the cook to whip her up a special omelette or two with a side of Belgian waffles and strawberries.
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 Glenn Close Picture, Profile, Gossip, and News at CelebrityWonder.com
When she was 13, her father opened a clinic in the Belgian Congo (now Zaire) and ran it for 16 years.
Close's grandfather, Edward Bennett Close, was once married to Marjorie Merriweather Post, heiress to the Post cereal fortune and mother to actress Dina Merrill.
Was hired to dub all of Andie MacDowell's dialogue in Greystoke: THE LEGEND OF TARZAN, LORD OF THE APES (1984), because the former model had such a heavy southern accent.
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 AMCTV.com - Glenn Close biography
After a short-fused marriage to a rock guitarist, Close finished her BA in drama and anthropology at The College of William and Mary in Virginia, then took to the New York stage in 1974 with "Love for Love."
In addition to the big screen, Glenn Close teamed with Christopher Walken in the highly acclaimed made-for-TV movie Sarah, Plain and Tall-which led to the sequels Skylark (1993) and Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End (1999).
In fact, Close first got her Tarzan experience in 1984's Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, where she took on the uncredited duty of dubbing the entire voiceover of Andie MacDowell, whose southern twang was deemed too strong.
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  Cranky Critic® StarTalk: Glenn Close
In her StarTalk, Glenn Close discusses the creation of her very first animated character, Kala, the adoptive mother of Tarzan and this role in her second Disneyflick.
Close also talked about her work on the Stage, the small screen and, most of the time, about serious and vitally important Big Screen opportunities.
Glenn Close: I always felt that that would be easier, but I'm beginning to understand how that would be harder for the directors and animators.
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  Glenn Close - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Her paternal grandfather, Edward Bennett Close, a stockbroker, was first married to Post Cereals' heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post, which makes Glenn Close a relative by marriage and/or blood to screenwriter/director Preston Sturges and actress Dina Merrill.
Glenn attended Choate Rosemary Hall, a private boarding school in Connecticut, and the College of William and Mary, becoming a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
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.
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 glenn close | biography (born 1947) / gallery
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.
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.
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 Glenn Close information - Search.com
Her paternal grandfather, Edward Bennett Close, a stockbroker, was first married to Post Cereals' heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post, which makes Glenn Close a relative by marriage and/or blood to screenwriter/director Preston Sturges and actress Dina Merrill.
Glenn attended Choate Rosemary Hall, a private boarding school in Connecticut, and the College of William and Mary, becoming a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
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.
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 USATODAY.com - Glenn Close shakes up 'Shield'   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Close says that when she spent time with Theresa Shortell, a New York City precinct commander, she learned that "the hardest thing about the job was being a woman and not letting it matter."
As the newcomer, Close feels a similarity and a difference with her character: "I was coming into a very established group of actors.
That feeling changed as the actors welcomed Close, the writing helped her learn her character, and the faster pace of a TV series, a new experience for the longtime film actor, forced her to just dive in.
www.usatoday.com /life/television/news/2005-03-13-shield_x.htm   (825 words)

  
 The FreshSite: Film: Actors: Glenn Close
Glenn Close was well into her thirties when she became a household name, and are one of few actors in the movie business (in addition to
American Close was raised basically in Switzerland and in Africa, travelling with her doctor father, and didn't take up acting until the seventies when she shined in various Broadway productions.
Glenn Close has throughout her career shown her versatility and ability to chose challenging roles for her self.
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 Glann Close Interview
Close shrugs at the suggestion that for a generation of cinema-goers she has become the embodiment of female evil and says that in all her roles she has found something to like in the character, no matter how unsympathetic the subject.
Close concedes that Cruella De Vil is a truly frightening figure for children, mainly due to her vampish appearance.
Close enjoys playing the fairytale evil character and says children expect her to be just like Cruella in real life.
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 Glenn Close Biography
Glenn Close made her professional theater and Broadway debut with the New Phoenix Repertory Company in LOVE FOR LOVE in 1974.
Close served as executive producer and won an Emmy Award for her 1995 performance as Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer in SERVING IN SILENCE, which also garnered a Peabody Award and Golden Globe nomination.
Glenn Close made her film debut in 1982 as Jenny Fields in John Irving's THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP for which she received an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress, followed by further Best Supporting Oscar nominations for THE BIG CHILL and THE NATURAL.
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 Sexy Women Celebrities - Glenn Close
Close, a critically-acclaimed, strong featured and coolly aristocratic blonde began her career in 1974 with New York's Phoenix Theatre Company and her film careerwhen director George Roy Hill spotted her in the Broadway musical Barnum and signed her for The World According to Garp (1982).
Later that same year, Close won an Emmy for her strong interpretation of Col. Magarethe Cammermeyer, who sued the military after being discharged for admitting her homosexuality, in Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story, an NBC telefilm which she also co-produced with Barbara Streisand.
Close and her co-star Christopher Walken followed up on this small screen triumph two years later with a sequel entitled Skylark (1993).
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 USATODAY.com - Glenn Close and former biotech exec marry   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Glenn's Close marriage to David Shaw is her third.
Close, 58, and Shaw, 54, were wed on Friday, according to the Scarborough town clerk's office.
Close has been married twice before — to James Cabot from 1969-71, and to James Marlas from 1984-87.
www.usatoday.com /life/people/2006-02-07-close-marriage_x.htm   (170 words)

  
 Glenn Close , Celebrity profile, bio, biography
Close's grandfather, Edward Bennett Close, was once married to Marjorie Merriweather Post, heiress to the Post cereal fortune and mother to actress Dina Merrill.
Close then achieved critical and public acclaim, an Award for Outstanding Performance from the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle, a third Tony Award and a Drama-Logue Award for Lead Actress, for her performance as Norma Desmond, first in the American premiere and then on Broadway in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical hit Sunset Boulevard.
Close reprised her roles as actress and executive producer for Hallmark on Skylark, the sequel to Sarah, Plain and Tall, with co-stars Christopher Walken.
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 NPR : National Press Club -- Glenn Close
Born on March 19, 1947, in Greenwich, Conn., Glenn Close grew up on a 250-acre farm with her parents and three siblings.
Close received her bachelor's degree in drama and anthropology from the College of William and Mary and then headed to New York to pursue her acting goals.
Close has maintained a strong television and stage career in addition to her film work.
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 Glenn Close Retires from Hollywood   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Actress Glenn Close is retiring from Hollwood-because she says she doesn't like all the glitz and glamour.
Who is glenn close and why should I care, did she ever star with john wayne in a movie, i bet she started with a mo dowd's lover reject.
Glenn Close is one of the smartest, most versatile, and classiest actresses in the business.
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 Glenn Close pictures, photos, wallpapers, desktop themes, posters, music, videos, DVDs, and memorabilia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Glenn Close (born March 19, 1947) is an American film and stage actress.
She was born into a society family in Greenwich, Connecticut, and attended the College of William and Mary, becoming a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
Career: Acting Close made her Broadway debut in The Phoenix Theatre's production of Congrieve's "Love for Love." She was the star, Mary Ure's understudy, and went on for a Saturday evening performance after Miss Ure was let go after that Saturday matinee.
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 GLENN CLOSE at THESPIAN NET   (Site not responding. Last check: )
One of four siblings, Glenn Close grew up on a prosperous, 250-acre farm with her father, a surgeon, and her mother, a homemaker.
Close recalls the experience with mixed emotion but maintains that her childhood was a happy one.
In 1996 Close got to fulfill a dream by playing Disney's most notorious villain, Cruella DeVil, in the live-action remake of 101 Dalmations, a role she reprised in 2000 with the film's sequel, 102 Dalmations.
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 Glenn Close
Glenn Close spent her first few years on her family's 250-acre farm.
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.
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 Glenn Close - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Glenn Close - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Close, Glenn, born in 1947, American stage and motion-picture actor of wide range and striking presence, often cast in strong, sensual roles.
Search for books about your topic, "Glenn Close"
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 Glenn Close - MovieActors.com
Glenn Close was born on March 19, 1947 in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Glenn Close has been known to keep all her costumes after filming different films.
In 1984 Glenn Close was hired to dub all of Andie MacDowell's dialogue in GREAYSTOKE: THE LEGEND OF TARZAN, LORD OF THE APES, because Andie had such a heavy southern accent.
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 Glenn Close, former biotech exec. marry - Boston.com
Glenn Close has married former biotech business executive David Shaw at his seaside estate.
Glenn Close, left, and David Shaw arrive at the State Department for a dinner hosted by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Dec. 3, 2005, in Washington.
Close has been married twice before -- to Cabot Wade from 1969-71, and to James Marlas from 1984-87.
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 Glenn Close's Not So Fatal Attraction - Feb 07, 2006 - E! Online News   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Close was previously married to James Marlas from 1984 to 1987, with whom she has a 17-year-old daughter, Annie, and to Cabot Wade from 1969 to 1971.
As for Close, the actress recently wrapped filming on the crime thriller Therese Raquin, costarring Giovanni Ribisi and Swimming Pool's Ludivine Sagnier.
Later this year, Close is set to star in the big-screen adaptation of Sunset Boulevard, as the infamous, aging movie star Norma Desmond.
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