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Close
is
one
of
the
most
versatile
actors
in
Hollywood.
It
seems
she
can
play
anything:
unscrupulous,
malicious
and
scheming
women,
women
scarred
by
life,
desperate,
suffering
women
–
or
even,
credibly,
a
man.
While
anti-heroines
are
her
biggest
strength,
she
is
not
committed
to
any
one
genre,
and
despite
her
age,
she
regularly
stands
in
front
of
cameras
for
major
productions.
All
the
while
she
gives
fans
glimpses
into
her
everyday
life
via
Instagram,
where
she
describes
herself
as
an
actor,
producer
and
writer
as
well
as
“an
introvert
with
extremely
low
tolerance
to
all
kinds
of
noise.
Proud
to
be
Pip’s
main
human.”
Glenn
Close
and
the
Oscars
At
the
2021
Oscars,she
showed
an
audience
of
millions
that
she’s
up
for
a
bit
of
fun
with
her
spontaneous
dance
to
the
hip-hop
song
“Da
Butt”
from
Spike
Lee’s
1988
film
“School
Daze”
–
people
in
the
audience
and
on
social
media
were
enthusiastic.
Glenn
Close
has
been
a
welcome
guest
at
the
Oscars
for
decades.
Her
very
first
feature
film,
the
1982
adaptation
of
the
novel
The
World
According
to
Garp,
saw
her
nominated
for
best
supporting
actress,
but
she
left
empty-handed.
That
happened
to
her
over
and
over
again.
Today
she
is
considered
the
“most
successful”
Oscar
loser
–
tied
with
Peter
O’Toole
(1932-2013),
she
holds
a
record
eight
Academy
Award
nominations
without
ever
winning
one.
Glenn
Close
seems
to
shrug
it
off.
Perhaps
that
is
not
too
difficult
because
no
one
can
deny
that
she
is
an
incredibly
successful,
esteemed
and
talented
actress
despite
the
empty
Oscar
shelf.
Blockbusters
and
indie
movies
She
is
brilliant
as
a
character
actor,
but
doesn’t
mind
action
or
mainstream
movies,
either,
as
well
as
indie
films
–
as
long
as
it’s
not
boring,
which
is
particularly
important
when
he
chooses
roles,
she
told
Germany’s
Frankfurter
Allgemeine
Zeitung
in
2012,
the
year
she
was
honoured
for
her
life’s
work
at
the
San
Sebastian
Film
Festival.
She
owes
her
unprecedented
career
above
all
to
her
acting
skills
and
her
willpower.
Her
parents
had
not
encouraged
her
career
choice,
arguing
acting
was
not
good
for
the
character,
Close
told
Kölner
Stadt-Anzeiger
in
2019.
Her
father
rather
urged
her
to
learn
shorthand
when
she
was
still
in
college,
so
she
could
become
a
secretary
if
need
be.
From
the
stage
to
Hollywood
Close,
who
was
born
into
a
strict
Puritan
family
in
Greenwich,
Connecticut,
on
March
19,
1947,
and
lived
in
a
cult-like
religious
community
until
she
left
in
her
early
20s,
was
not
to
be
deterred,
however.
She
studied
acting
and
anthropology
and
was
a
stage
actor
before
finally
landing
in
film
in
her
mid-30s.
Glenn
Close
is
often
associated
with
loathsome,
unscrupulous
female
characters.
Yet
from
her
point
of
view,
only
one
of
her
roles
was
a
truly
evil
character:
Cruella
de
Vil
from
the
movie
“101
Dalmatians.”
“As
her
last
name
suggests,
she
is
the
devil
in
disguise,”
she
said
in
the
interview
with
Frankfurter
Allgemeine
Zeitung.
“All
my
other
film
characters
are
not
really
evil
in
my
eyes.
For
me,
they
definitely
have
something
human,
vulnerable,
too,
and
in
a
way,
I
can
understand
them
–
they
are
women
trying
to
hold
their
own
in
a
harsh
male
world.”
If
they
were
men,
she
told
the
paper,
they
probably
wouldn’t
be
called
evil,
“people
would
find
their
behavior
quite
normal.”
The
actor
had
to
prove
herself
in
a
man’s
world.
Perhaps
it
was
her
advantage
that
she
didn’t
arrive
in
Hollywood
until
her
mid-30s,
an
age
at
when
many
a
career
was
already
waning.
After
all,
older
female
actors
have
a
harder
time
landing
a
role.
Glenn
Close,
however,
was
able
to
choose
her
roles
for
a
long
time.
Most
recently,
she
played
in
the
2021
film
drama
“Swan
Song.”
Glenn
Close
passed
on
her
love
of
acting
to
her
daughter,
Annie
Starke;
sometimes
the
two
women
are
cast
in
the
same
movie.
Close’s
three
marriages
failed,
the
actor
now
lives
alone
with
her
beloved
dog
Pip.
Close
is
an
advocate
for
democracy
and
involved
with
Bring
Change
to
Mind,
the
non-profit
organization
to
end
stigma
and
discrimination
surrounding
mental
illness
she
co-founded.
This
article
has
been
translated
from
German.
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