Glenn Close

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Glenn Close (born March 19, 1947 in Greenwich , Connecticut ) is an American actress and singer . As part of the Golden Globe Awards 2019 , she was awarded the Golden Globe for best actress in a drama for her role as Joan Castleman in the film The Nobel Laureate's Wife . This is Close's first Golden Globe in film.

Glenn Close holds the record as an actress of getting the most Oscar nominations but failing to translate them into victories. For her performances in Fatal Attraction , Dangerous Liaisons , Albert Nobbs and The wife of Nobel Prize winner was for an Oscar as Best Actress , for he saw the world Garp and how , The Big Chill and The Natural was it as a Best Supporting Actress nomination.

Family and education

Her father, William T. Close , a doctor and author, took over the management of a hospital in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1960 . Glenn Close spent her youth alternately in the Central African country and in boarding schools such as Rosemary Hall ( Greenwich ) in New England . She attended the College of William & Mary in Virginia and graduated in acting and anthropology .

Career

Glenn Close began her acting career in the final year of her college education at the Broadway theater . In 1980 she was nominated for the first time for the Tony Award , in 1982 she received the first of three awards.

That same year she was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her first film role in Garp and How He Saw the World . Four more nominations followed in the following six years, including Best Actress in A Fateful Affair and Dangerous Liaisons - but so far she has not been able to win the award. Further Oscar nominations followed in 2012 and 2019 for the title roles in the dramas Albert Nobbs (2011) and The Nobel Laureate's Wife (2018).

Since the 1990s she has also increasingly taken on television roles. She received an Emmy nomination for the lead role in The Winter Lion in 2005 and won the Golden Globe Award . In 2005 she joined the regular cast of the crime series The Shield - Law of Violence , in 2008 she was again awarded a Golden Globe for the television series Damages - Im Netz der Macht . For the role of star lawyer Patty Hewes, she also received the Emmy for Best Actress in a Drama Series in 2008 and 2009.

Glenn Close was honored with the "Golden Icon Award" for her life's work at the 13th Zurich Film Festival (on Sunday, October 1, 2017) in Zurich. She appeared with her daughter Annie Starke and accepted the award in person.

In the US animated series The Simpsons , she spoke in several episodes Mona J. Simpson . Also noteworthy is her cameo in Hook by Steven Spielberg . In the film, she played the male pirate who is locked in a box.

“Glenn Close was the obsessive, relentless border crosser, the modern femme fatale of cinema. With hard eyes and a lot of physical effort, she played the unyielding stalker in a fateful affair , the scheming seductress in the war between the sexes of dangerous love affairs and on Broadway the power-conscious mother prince in the medieval drama The Lion in Winter ", outlines the film critic Claudia Lenssen's Closes screen image on the occasion of a review from The Nobel Laureate's Wife : “The film titles already indicated that female characters à la Glenn Close were haunted by violent emotions. Glenn Close nevertheless managed to make visible, behind monstrous passions and vindictiveness, the hurt and disgrace that made her 'bad women' appear weak and strong at the same time. "

Private life

Close and Jim Dale

Close has been married for the third time since February 2006. Her daughter from a previous marriage is Annie Starke , born in 1988 , with whom she made the film The Nobel Laureate's Wife in 2017 . Glenn Close stars as Joan Castleman, and Annie Starke plays the young Castleman in the flashbacks.

Glenn Close lives mostly in New York. Close is a dog lover and runs her own blog interviewing other celebrities about their relationships with their dogs.

German dubbing voices

In the films and series, Glenn Close is dubbed for the German language versions by various German speakers. However, Kerstin Sanders-Dornseif and Hallgard Bruckhaus can be heard again and again since the beginning. Also Uta Hallant and seven speakers giving the actress her voice.

In two cases, Glenn Close dubbed the grandmother in the animated films The Little Red Riding Hood Conspiracy and The Little Red Riding Hood Ultimatum , her role was taken over by Hans Werner Olm and Michael Pan .

Appearances on Broadway

Musicals

Plays

  • 1978: The Crucifer of Blood
  • 1983: The Real Thing by Tom Stoppard
  • 1985: Benefactors
  • 1992: Death and the Maiden
  • 2014: A Delicate Balance

Filmography (selection)

Glenn Close at the premiere of Albert Nobbs in France in February 2012.

Awards and nominations

Glenn Close at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival

Golden Icon Award

  • 2017: Honored for your life's work

Oscar

  • Nominations
1983: Best Supporting Actress (Garp and How He Saw the World)
1984: Best Supporting Actress (The Big Frustration)
1985: Best Supporting Actress (The Unyielding)
1988: Best Actress (A Fateful Affair)
1989: Best Actress (Dangerous Liaisons)
2012: Best Actress (Albert Nobbs)
2019: Best Actress (Nobel Laureate's Wife)

British Academy Film Award

  • Nominations
1990: Best Actress (Dangerous Liaisons)
2019: Best Actress (Nobel Laureate's Wife)

Blockbuster Entertainment Award

1997: Most Popular Actress - Family (101 Dalmatians)
1998: Favorite Supporting Actress - Action / Adventure (Air Force One)

CableACE Award

1997: Guest actress in a dramatic special or series (In the Gloaming)

Drama Desk Award

  • Award
1995: Outstanding leading actress in a musical (Sunset Boulevard)
  • nomination
1992: Outstanding Lead Actress (Death and the Maiden)

Emmy

  • Awards
1995: Outstanding leading actress in a miniseries or a special (Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story)
2008: Outstanding leading actress in a drama series (Damages - Im Netz der Macht)
2009: Outstanding leading actress in a drama series (Damages - Im Netz der Macht)
  • Nominations
1984: Outstanding leading actress in a limited series or special (Something About Amelia)
1991: Outstanding Miniseries (Sarah, Plain and Tall)
1991: Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Special (Sarah, Plain and Tall)
1993: Outstanding leading actress in a miniseries or a special (Skylark)
1995: Outstanding TV film (Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story)
1997: Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Special (In the Gloaming)
2002: Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series (Will & Grace)
2004: Outstanding leading actress in a miniseries or a film (The Lion in Winter)
2005: Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series (The Shield)
2010: Outstanding leading actress in a drama series (Damages - Im Netz der Macht)

GLAAD Media Award

2002: Excellence in Media Award

Golden Globe Award

  • Awards
2005: Best Actress - Mini-Series or TV Movie (The Lion in Winter)
2008: Best Actress in a Series - Drama (Damages - Im Netz der Macht)
2019: Golden Globe Award / Best Actress - Drama (Nobel Laureate's Wife)
  • Nominations
1985: Best Actress - Mini-Series or TV Movie (Something About Amelia)
1986: Best Actress - Comedy or Musical (Maxie)
1988: Best Actress - Drama (A Fatal Affair)
1992: Best Actress - Miniseries or TV Movie (Sarah, Plain and Tall)
1996: Best Actress - Mini-Series or TV-Film (Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story)
1997: Best Actress - Comedy or Musical (101 Dalmatians)
2006: Best Actress in a Series - Drama (The Shield)
2010: Best Actress in a Series - Drama (Damages - Im Netz der Macht)
2012: Best Actress - Drama (Albert Nobbs)

Golden camera

1992: Best international actress

Gotham Award

  • nomination
2005: Best Ensemble (Nine Lives, together with the other actors)

Hasty pudding

1990: woman of the year

Hollywood Walk of Fame

2009: Star in the " Film " category

Locarno International Film Festival

2005: Bronze Leopard for Best Actress (Nine Lives)

Los Angeles Film Critics Association

1982: Best Supporting Actress (Garp and How He Saw the World)

National Board of Review

1982: Best Supporting Actress (Garp and How He Saw the World)

Obie Award

1982: Best Actress (The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs)

People's Choice Award

1988: Most popular film actress

Festival Internacional de Cine de Donostia-San Sebastián

2011: Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award (Lifetime Achievement Award)

Satellite Award

  • Award
2009: Best Actress in a Series - Drama (Damages - Im Netz der Macht)
  • Nominations
1997: Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical (101 Dalmatians)
1998: Best Actress in a Miniseries or a TV Movie (In the Gloaming)
2001: Best Actress in a Film - Comedy or Musical (102 Dalmatians)
2007: Best Actress in a Series - Drama (Damages - Im Netz der Macht)
2008: Best Actress in a Series - Drama (Damages - Im Netz der Macht)

Saturn Award

  • Nominations
1986: Best Actress (Maxie)
1997: Best Actress (101 Dalmatians)

Screen Actors Guild Award

  • Award
2005: Outstanding Lead Actress in a TV Movie or Miniseries (The Lion in Winter)
  • Nominations
1996: Outstanding Lead Actress in a TV Movie or Miniseries (Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story)
1998: Outstanding Lead Actress in a TV Movie or Miniseries (In the Gloaming)
2008: Outstanding leading actress in a drama series (Damages - Im Netz der Macht)
2010: Outstanding leading actress in a drama series (Damages - Im Netz der Macht)

ShoWest Convention

1989: Female Star of the Year

Television Critics Association Award

  • Nominations
2008: Individual performance in drama (Damages - Im Netz der Macht)
2009: Individual performance in drama (Damages - Im Netz der Macht)

Tony Award

  • Awards
1984: Best Actress (The Real Thing)
1992: Best Actress (Death and the Maiden)
1995: Best Actress in a Musical (Sunset Boulevard)
  • nomination
1980: Best Supporting Actress in a Musical (Barnum)

Women in Film Crystal Award

2001: Crystal Award

Web links

Commons : Glenn Close  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Conscience and the Congo , post-gazette.com
  2. ^ Zurich Film Festival. Retrieved November 2, 2017 .
  3. ^ Claudia Lenssen: Settlement with the male cult of genius. In: Der Tagesspiegel. January 3, 2019, accessed January 3, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Katelyn Lunders: Glenn Close's Lookalike Daughter Is All Grown Up - and Ready to Step Into Mom's Shoes. In: womansday.com. October 3, 2017, accessed October 4, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Golden Icon Award
personal data
SURNAME Close, Glenn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Greenwich , Connecticut , United States