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3 | ->''"Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That's basically what we do."'' |
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5 | Glenda Veronica Close (born March 19, 1947), better known as Glenn Close, is an American film, television and stage actor. |
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7 | Throughout her long and varied career, she has been consistently acclaimed for her versatility and is considered by many to be one of the greatest actors of all-time. |
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9 | She has won two MediaNotes/{{Golden Globe Award}}s, three MediaNotes/{{Emmy Award}}s, and three [[MediaNotes/TonyAwardWinners Tony Awards]], and received eight MediaNotes/AcademyAward nominations, making her the most-nominated living actor who has never won an Oscar. |
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11 | !!She appeared in: |
12 | [[foldercontrol]] |
13 | [[folder: Film]] |
14 | * ''Literature/TheWorldAccordingToGarp'' |
15 | * ''Film/TheBigChill'' |
16 | * ''Film/TheNatural'' |
17 | * ''{{Film/Maxie}}'' |
18 | * ''Film/FatalAttraction'' |
19 | * ''Literature/DangerousLiaisons'' |
20 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Gandahar}}'' |
21 | * ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' |
22 | * ''Film/ReversalOfFortune'' |
23 | * ''Film/{{Hook}}'' |
24 | * ''Film/JaggedEdge'' |
25 | * ''Film/ThePaper'' |
26 | * ''Film/AnneFrankRemembered'' (documentary, narrator) |
27 | * ''Film/MarsAttacks'' |
28 | * ''[[Film/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians1996 101 Dalmatians]]'' |
29 | ** ''Film/OneHundredAndTwoDalmatians'' |
30 | * ''Film/AirForceOne'' |
31 | * ''Film/ParadiseRoad'' |
32 | * ''Film/CookiesFortune'' |
33 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'' |
34 | ** ''WesternAnimation/TarzanII'' |
35 | * ''Film/{{Pinocchio|2002}}'' (English dub) |
36 | * ''Theatre/TheLionInWinter'' |
37 | * ''Literature/TheStepfordWives'' |
38 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Hoodwinked}}'' |
39 | ** ''WesternAnimation/HoodwinkedTooHoodVersusEvil'' |
40 | * ''Film/AlbertNobbs'' |
41 | * ''Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy|2014}}'' |
42 | * ''[[Film/WarCraft2016 WarCraft]]'' |
43 | * ''Film/TheWife'' |
44 | * ''Film/CrookedHouse'' |
45 | * ''Film/FatherFigures'' |
46 | * ''Film/FourGoodDays'' |
47 | * ''Literature/HillbillyElegy'' |
48 | * ''Film/HeartOfStone'' |
49 | [[/folder]] |
50 | |
51 | [[folder: TV]] |
52 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', as Homer's mother, Mona, who abandoned her husband and son after a chemical warfare protest gone wrong. In most episodes (including an early one where Grampa Simpson tells Homer about how he knocked up a carnival worker before he married Mona), Maggie Roswell voices Homer's mother, and in "D'Oh-in In the Wind," Creator/TressMacNeille voiced her in the flashback of Mona taking Homer to Woodstock. |
53 | * ''Series/WillAndGrace'' |
54 | * ''Series/TheWestWing'' |
55 | * ''Series/TheShield'' |
56 | * ''Series/{{Damages}}'' |
57 | * ''WesternAnimation/ThreeBelow'' |
58 | * ''Series/FindingYourRoots'' |
59 | [[/folder]] |
60 | |
61 | [[folder: Theater]] |
62 | * ''Film/DeathAndTheMaiden'' |
63 | * ''Film/SunsetBoulevard'' |
64 | * ''Theatre/IntoTheWoods'' |
65 | [[/folder]] |
66 | |
67 | !!Tropes associated with her work include: |
68 | * AndStarring: She's credited this way for ''Film/MaryReilly''. |
69 | * AssumedWin: The 2019 Academy Awards was seen as Close's absolutely "for sure" Oscar coronation. Her turn in ''Film/TheWife'' had won her a Golden Globe, Critic's Choice and Screen Actor's Guild award and over 90 percent of Oscar procrastinators picked her as the solid victor. Instead, in a stunning upset, Creator/OliviaColman took the Oscar for ''Film/TheFavourite'', who even apologized to Close during her speech. Even worse, Close was wearing a golden dress that night, which many believe was intentionally meant to make her look like an Oscar. |
70 | * AwesomeDearBoy:[[invoked]] |
71 | ** She jumped at the chance to play a "Disney witch" when ''Film/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians1996'' came along. |
72 | ** She signed on to do ''Film/MarsAttacks'' when she heard Jack Nicholson would be her husband, and she'd get killed by the falling Nancy Regan chandelier. |
73 | * CastTheRunnerUp:[[invoked]] She really wanted to play Meg in ''Film/TheBigChill'', but was offered the role of Sarah instead. |
74 | * CoolOldLady: In many of her later roles, she plays steely, tough but witty and charming older women. She's also very much this in real life as well. |
75 | * CreatorBacklash: |
76 | ** Reporters at media junkets are told not to ask her about her time with the travelling singing group ''Up With People''. |
77 | ** She's also not particularly happy about stigmatising mental illness with her role in ''Film/FatalAttraction'', and later helped set up a mental health charity. In fact, she's spoken about how she'd like to see a remake from Alex's perspective, and feels that she would not be seen as a villain. |
78 | * FakeBrit:[[invoked]] As both Cruella de Ville in ''Film/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians1996'' (where she patterned her voice off Joanna Lumley in ''Series/AbsolutelyFabulous'') and ''Film/MaryReilly''. |
79 | * LanternJawOfJustice: One of the few women in the entirety of the acting industry who has one...and pulls it off astoundingly well. |
80 | * LargeHam: She can ''really'' overact if she needs to and will gleefully leave teeth marks in the scenery when the opportunity presents itself, most notable in her role as [[Film/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians1996 Cruella De Vil]]. |
81 | * MoneyDearBoy: Her on-the-record reason for playing Nova Prime in ''Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy|2014}}'', although she also said that [[AwesomeDearBoy she had fun]] with the role as well. |
82 | * PlayingAgainstType:[[invoked]] ''Film/FatalAttraction'' marked a departure for her, as most of her characters beforehand had been warm, motherly figures. Afterwards, she was often typecast as villains. |
83 | * UncreditedRole: Had a brief, uncredited cameo in ''Film/{{Hook}}''. |
84 | * WagTheDirector: A scene in ''Film/AirForceOne'' had Kathryn breaking down crying at one point. Glenn however felt that "my vice president" wouldn't, and would instead play the IronLady, so it was changed. |
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