Glenn Close was born on March 19, 1947, in Greenwich, Connecticut. She has been married three times and has a daughter from her relationship with producer John Starke. She is the president of Trillium Productions and has co-founded the website FetchDog. Her parents were members of the Moral Re-Armament, a movement in which her family remained involved for fifteen years.
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Glenn Close was born on March 19, 1947, in Greenwich, Connecticut. She has been married three times and has a daughter from her relationship with producer John Starke. She is the president of Trillium Productions and has co-founded the website FetchDog. Close has made political donations in support of Democratic politicians, and is vocal on issues such as gay marriage, women’s rights, and mental health. She was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2016. In 2019, Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world. The actress has been nominated seven times for the Academy Awards, holding the record for the most nominations without a win for an actress. Her parents were members of the Moral Re-Armament, a movement in which her family remained involved for fifteen years. She once stated that her desire to become an actress allowed her to break away from MRA, adding: ‘I have long forgiven them for doing what they did, and I understand the terrible effects on their kids. We all try to survive, right? And I think what saved me more than anything was my desire to be an actress’ She has two sisters, Tina and Jessie, and two brothers, Alexander and Tambu Misoki, whom Close’s parents adopted while living in Africa. During her childhood, Close lived with her parents in a stone cottage on her maternal grandfather’s estate in Greenwich. She spent time in Switzerland when studying at St. George’s School of the Green with a singing group called Up With People and Rosemary Hall.
Her family chose not to participate in WASP society, and she would avoid mentioning her birthplace, the wealthy town Greenwich, whenever asked because she did not want people to think she was a ‘dilettante who didn’t have to work’ She spent several years in the mid-to-late 1960s in the small town of Greenfield, Connecticut, where she met her future husband, actor Robert De Niro, and their daughter, actress Julianne Moore. Her father was a doctor who operated a clinic in the Belgian Congo and served as a personal physician to its dictator Mobutu Sese Seko. Her mother, Bettine Moore Close, was a socialite who lived in Greenwich with her husband, William Taliaferro Close, and her sister, Tina, and brother, Jessie, in the late 1950s and early 1960s. She graduated from the College of William & Mary with a degree in theater and anthropology. She began her professional career on stage in 1974 with Love for Love and was mostly a New York stage actress until the early 1980s. Her film debut came in The World According to Garp, which was followed by supporting roles in the films The Big Chill and The Natural. Close went on to establish herself as a Hollywood leading lady with roles in Fatal Attraction and Dangerous Liaisons, both of which earned her nominations for the Oscar for Best Actress. She won three Tony Awards for Death and the Maiden in 1992 and Sunset Boulevard in 1995.
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