Close, Glenn (1947–)

American actress. Born Mar 14, 1947, in Greenwich, Connecticut; College of William and Mary, BA; m. John Starke (producer, div.); m. Cabot Wade (guitarist), 1969 (div. 1971); m. James Marlas (venture capitalist), 1984 (div. 1987); children: Annie Maude.

Celebrated activist actress, grew up on 250—acre farm in CT but at 10 moved with parents, followers of Moral Re-Armament movement, to Switzerland and then Zaire, where surgeon father established a clinic; bounced between Africa and Swiss boarding schools until settling in with grandmother in Greenwich, CT; made Broadway debut in Love for Love (1974) and later appeared in Broadway musical Barnum; made film debut in The World According to Garp (1982), earning Oscar nomination; also nominated for Academy Awards for The Big Chill (1983), The Natural (1984), Fatal Attraction (1987) and Dangerous Liaisons (1988); other films include Reversal of Fortune (1990), 101 Dalmatians (1996), Cookie's Fortune (1999), Le Divorce (2003) and Stepford Wives (2004); nominated for Obie for The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs (1982) and Tony awards for work in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing (1984) and Ariel Dorfman's Death and the Maiden (1992); won Tony for performance as Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard (1995); on tv, appeared in "Stones for Ibarra" (1988), "Sarah, Plain and Tall" (1991) and won Emmy for "Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story" (1995); served as executive producer for documentary Do You Mean There Are Still Cowboys? (1987).