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Glenn Close (born March 19, 1947)〔 is an American film, television and stage actress. Throughout her long and varied career, she has been consistently acclaimed for her versatility and is widely regarded as one of the finest actresses of her generation. She has won three Emmy Awards, three Tony Awards and received six Academy Award nominations. Close began her professional stage career in 1974 in ''Love for Love'', and was mostly a New York stage actress through the rest of the 1970s and early 1980s, appearing in both plays and musicals, including the Broadway productions of ''Barnum'' in 1980 and ''The Real Thing'' in 1983, for which she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. Her first film role was in ''The World According to Garp'' (1982), which she followed up with supporting roles in ''The Big Chill'' (1983), and ''The Natural'' (1984); all three earned her nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She would later receive nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in ''Fatal Attraction'' (1987), ''Dangerous Liaisons'' (1988), and ''Albert Nobbs'' (2011). In the 1990s, she won two more Tony Awards, for ''Death and the Maiden'' in 1992 and ''Sunset Boulevard'' in 1995, while she won her first Emmy Award for the 1995 TV film ''Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story''. Close starred as Eleanor of Aquitaine in the 2003 TV film ''The Lion in Winter'', winning a Golden Globe Award. In 2005, she starred in the drama series ''The Shield''. Then from 2007 to 2012, she starred as Patty Hewes in the FX drama series ''Damages'', a role that won her a Golden Globe and two Emmys. She returned to Broadway in November 2014, in a revival of Edward Albee's ''A Delicate Balance''.〔http://www.broadwaybox.com/daily-scoop/what-play-can-come-along-that-will-be-more-star-studded-than-this/〕 Her other films include ''Jagged Edge'' (1985), ''Hamlet'' (1990), ''Reversal of Fortune'' (1990), ''101 Dalmatians'' (1996), ''Paradise Road'' (1997), ''Air Force One'' (1997), ''Cookie's Fortune'' (1999), ''Nine Lives'' (2005) and ''Guardians of the Galaxy'' (2014). Close is a six-time Academy Award nominee, tying the record for being the actress with the most nominations never to have won (along with Deborah Kerr and Thelma Ritter). In addition, she has been nominated for four Tonys (three wins), fourteen Emmys (three wins), fourteen Golden Globes (two wins), two Drama Desk Awards (one win) and eight Screen Actors Guild Awards (one win). She has also won an Obie award and has been nominated for three Grammy Awards and a BAFTA. ==Early life and family== Close was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, the daughter of socialite Bettine Moore Close and William Taliaferro Close, a doctor who operated a clinic in the Belgian Congo and served as a personal physician to Congo/Zaire President Mobutu Sese Seko. Her father was a descendant of the Taliaferros of Virginia; her paternal grandfather, Edward Bennett Close, a stockbroker and director of the American Hospital Association, was first married to Post Cereals' Marjorie Merriweather Post. Close is also a second cousin once-removed of actress Brooke Shields (Shields's great-grandmother Mary Elsie Moore was a sister of Close's maternal grandfather, Charles Arthur Moore, Jr.). During her childhood, Close lived with her parents in a stone cottage on her maternal grandfather's estate, in Greenwich.〔Stated on ''Inside the Actors Studio'', 1995〕 Close has credited her acting abilities to her early years: "I have no doubt that the days I spent running free in the evocative Connecticut countryside with an unfettered imagination, playing whatever character our games demanded, is one of the reasons that acting has always seemed so natural to me."〔In a speech at Princeton University on February 19, 2009〕 When she was seven years old, her parents joined a "cult group," the Moral Re-Armament (MRA), in which her family remained involved for fifteen years, living in communal centers. Close has stated that the family "struggled to survive the pressures of a culture that dictated everything about how we lived our lives." She spent time in Switzerland when studying at St. George's School in Switzerland. Close traveled for several years in the mid-to-late 1960s with an MRA singing group called Up With People, and attended Rosemary Hall (now Choate Rosemary Hall), graduating in 1965.〔〔(Rosemary Hall Alumnae Award ) from the Choate Rosemary Hall website〕 When she was 22, Close broke away from MRA, attending the College of William & Mary, and double majoring in theatre and anthropology. It was in the College's theatre department that she began to train as a serious actor, under Howard Scammon, W&M's long-time professor of theatre. During her years at school in Williamsburg she also starred in the summer-time outdoor drama, "The Common Glory," written by Pulitzer Prize author Paul Green. She was elected to membership in the honor society of Phi Beta Kappa.〔 Through the years she has returned to W&M to lecture and visit the theatre department. In 1989 she was the commencement speaker at W&M and received an honorary doctor of arts degree. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Glenn Close」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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