Glenn Close- Respected Stage and Screen Actress

I think in movies, the close-up is what it’s all about. No other art form has the close-up, which basically allows the audience to look into somebody’s soul.
—GLENN CLOSE IN A 1995 INTERVIEW

lenn Close’s striking good looks, patrician demeanor, and varied performances have established her as one of America’s most fascinating and talented stars. In late 2000, however, the fifty-three-year-old actress announced that she was “slowing down” the pace of her acting projects. She wanted more time with her daughter, Annie (then twelve). “I’m on the cusp of age where everything is harder,” explained Close. “I’m compelled to seek fewer people, less noise, less pressure, and I’ve worked so hard, I’m wondering when I’m going to start enjoying it.”
Close’s comments were an example of a reflective, intellectual personality that colors every character she has played in a career spanning more than twenty-five years. Though a respected stage actress, Close nonetheless spent many years as a relative unknown before she became the Hollywood star she is today. Glenn Close was born on March 19, 1947, in Creenwich, Connecticut, to William T. and Bettine Close. Her parents were members of a “salvation” movement known as Moral Re-Armament. They became so involved in the group that when Glenn was thirteen, they abandoned the town their ancestors had helped found 300 years earlier and settled in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), in central Africa.
The Closes might have been drawn more deeply into the cultlike organization, but William, who was a surgeon, answered a different calling. He established a medical clinic in Zaire, where the couple lived for sixteen years. The Closes sent their children—Glenn, Tina, Jesse, and Alexander—to boarding schools in Switzerland and Connecticut. The children lived with their parents when they weren’t attending school.
Close says today that the experience of living in Africa was enlightening. “My parents were very idealistic,” she says, “and I think they were susceptible at a certain time in their lives to the allure of a group like [Moral Re-Armament]. . . . Looking back as an adult, I’m so proud of my parents, so in awe of them—-they’re great humanists.”
The Close children later returned to Greenwich and lived with their maternal grandmother. Glenn attended Rosemary Hall, an exclusive girls’ school, where she organized a theater group with other class members. After graduating in 1965, Close joined “Up With People,” a troupe of young entertainers who toured the country singing upbeat, socially conscious music. Close was also part of the trio called the Green Glenn Singers, and she wrote two songs, including the sugary “Run and Catch the Wind.”
In 1970 Close enrolled in William and Mary College in Williamsburg, Virginia, where she majored in anthropology and drama. By the time she graduated in 1974, she had decided to become an actress. Her first lead role was in the play Love for Love (1974), with the New Phoenix Repertory Company.
For years Close worked diligently in theater and had several minor roles in TV movies, including Rules of the Game (1975} and Orphan ‘/rain (1979). In her first Broadway appearance, in Barnum, she was spotted by director George Roy Hill. He was so impressed with her talent that he cast her as the free-spirited mother in the 1982 film The World According to Garp. For her first feature-length film role Close earned her first Oscar nomination.
Close has demonstrated remarkable acting versatility. In 1983 she appeared in the box-office hit The Big Chill, receiving a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination. The following year, she won a Tony Award for her role in Broadway’s The Real Thing. She got an Emmy nomination for her TV role as the mother of an incest victim in Something About Amelia (1984), and she played a lawyer who becomes romantically involved with her client in Jagged Edge (1985). She acquired another Oscar nomination in 1985 for her role in the baseball fable The Natural, starring Robert Redford. Her riveting portrayal of the vengeful, psychotic lover in the thriller Fatal Attraction (1987) shocked audiences and wowed Academy members, bringing her a fourth Oscar nomination.
As the manipulative Marquise de Merteuil in the 1988 film Dangerous Liaisons, Close got a second Best Actress Oscar nomination. In the film set in seventeenth-century France, Close’s character convinces an ex-lover (Jorin Malkovich) to seduce the young bride of her former husband.
The actress received two more Tony Awards for her performance in Death and the Maiden (1992) and for her flamboyant depiction of silent-screen star Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard (1995). During the 1990s she was involved in several television movies. She played the title role in the “Hallmark Hall of Fame” project Sarah, Plain and Tall (1991) and its sequel, Skylark (1993). Close won two Emmys (one as executive producer and one as lead actress) for Sarah, which drew the largest audience in the Hallmark program’s forty-year history.
In 1995 Close played the title character in the controversial TV movie Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (1995), which she also coproduced. Cammermeyer, a decorated colonel in the U.S. Army, admitted she was homosexual during a security clearance interview. She was discharged from the service but sued the U.S. Army over the discharge and won in federal court. The film was nominated for six Emmys and won three; Close earned an award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Special.
Close has received critical acclaim for her comic performances, too. She was First Lady Marsha Dale in the wacky Mars Attacks! (1996) and the hilariously wicked Cruella De Vil in Walt Disney’s 101 Dalmatians (1996). The following year she appeared as the U.S. vice president in Air Force One, and as the mother of a young man dying of AIDS in the TV movie In the Gloaming. She reprised her role as Sarah Witting in Sarah, Plain and Tali: Winter’s End (1999) and delighted movie fans with her return as Cruella De Vil in 102 Dalmatians (2000).
Close’s nonacting pursuits include co-owning a coffee shop called Leaf and Bean and a bookstore called Poor Richard’s in Bozeman, Montana. Despite her announcement in 2000 that she was pulling back from acting, the award-winning actress emphasized that slowing down did not mean stopping. “I’ve never turned down anything I thought was worth doing—yet,” she said. She has since appeared in the TV movies South Pacific (2001) and The Ballad of Lucy Whipple (2001), for which she was executive producer. She also appeared in The Safety of Objects (2001). In 2003 she will appear in Le Divorce, based on a novel by Diane Johnson.
Close says that her parents’ strong convictions have had a lasting effect on how she has lived her life. “They’re people who have always felt that one should give back positively to society,” she says. “They taught us that if much is given, you should give back.”

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