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NAME:
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Glenn Close |
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PROFILE:
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Name: Glenn Close
Height: 5'7''
Sex: F
Nationality: American
Birth Date: March 19, 1947
Birth Place: Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
Profession: Actress, Musician, Producer
Education: Rosemary Hall, Wallingford, Connecticut
St. George's School, Switzerland
College of William and Mary; B.A. (majored in Drama and Anthropology)
Husband/Wife: David Shaw (biotechnology enterpreneur; married on February 3, 2006 in Maine), James Marlas (business executive; married in 1984; divorced in 1987), Cabot Wade (rock guitarist; married in 1969; divorced in 1971)
Relationship: Robert Pastorelli (actor; met in 1999), Woody Harrelson (actor; five-month relationship ended in September 1991), Kevin Kline (actor; dated in the 1970s), John Starke (producer, relationship ended 1991), Cam Neely (hockey player), Stephen Beers (carpenter
Father: William T. Close, surgeon; onetime chief doctor for Congolese army
Mother: Bettine Close (née Moore)
Sister: Jessie (author, illustrator), Tina (artist)
Brother: Sandy
Grand Father: Edward Close Sr., physician; was director of the American Hospital
Daughter: Annie Maude Starke (father: John Starke; born 1987)
Claim to fame: Played the role of Alex in Fatal Attraction (1987)
Contact: Click here
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- Married former biotech business executive David Shaw on February 3, 2006.
- Recipient of Gotham Awards from the Independent Film Project. (2003)
- Was actually the fourth choice to play the role of Alex in FATAL ATTRACTION. The first choices were Debra Winger, Barbara Hershey, and Miranda Richardson.
- When she was 13, her father opened a clinic in the Belgian Congo (now Zaire) and ran it for 16 years. During most of that time, the Close children lived alternately in Africa and at boarding schools in Switzerland.
- Chosen by Andrew Lloyd Webber to replace Patti LuPone in SUNSET BOULEVARD in 1994.
- Keeps all her costumes after filming finishes.
- Has a cousin who prepares and sells herbal products on Long Island, New York. The two resemble one another.
- Good friends with Meryl Streep.
- 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.
- 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.
- Jada Pinkett Smith describes Glenn as a chameleon, “She can do anything.
- Close earned several Oscar nominations for performances in THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP (1982), THE BIG CHILL (1983), THE NATURAL (1984), and FATAL ATTRACTION (1987), and DANGEROUS LIAISONS.
- Africa saved her from growing up as a member of a cult.
- In HOOK (1991) the pirate shut in the chest with the scorpion was played by Glenn Close.
- MORE GLENN CLOSE TRIVIA
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