Line #11 Creator/GlennClose


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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:
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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''
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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]]
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61	[[folder: Theater]]
62	* ''Film/DeathAndTheMaiden''
63	* ''Film/SunsetBoulevard''
64	* ''Theatre/IntoTheWoods''
65	[[/folder]]
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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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