66 Facts About Glenn Close

1. Glenn Close has six Academy Award nominations, and is creating major Oscar buzz for her 2018 performance in 'The Wife.

2. Glenn Close mates and former housemates Aaron Finch and Glenn Maxwell.

3. Glenn Close will be honored for her more than 40-year career, which includes six Oscar nominations, 14 Emmy nominations, and 13 Golden Globe nominations.

4. Glenn Close will be recognized for her performance in "The Wife.

5. Glenn Close has said she is "very superstitious" as she refused to comment on her chances of winning an Oscar for her role in The Wife.

6. On June 16, 2016, Glenn Close donated $75,000 to the Mental-Health Association of Central Florida in order to fund counselling and other assistance to victims of the Orlando nightclub shooting.

7. In 2013 Glenn Close went to the White House to urge passage of the Excellence in Mental-Health Act that was written to expand treatment for the mentally ill and to provide access to mental-health services.

8. Glenn Close had director and friend Ron Howard direct the foundation's first PSA.

9. In 2010, Glenn Close announced to the public that she had her DNA sequenced in order to publicize her family's history of mental illness.

10. Glenn Close has been a longtime supporter of late friend Christopher Reeve's foundation.

11. Glenn Close is a trustee of The Wildlife Conservation Society and volunteers at Fountain House in New York City, a facility dedicated to the recovery of men and women who suffer with mental illness.

12. In 1998, Glenn Close was a part of a star-studded cast which performed The Vagina Monologues at a benefit.

13. Glenn Close has campaigned for many issues like gay marriage, women's rights, and mental health.

14. Glenn Close is a New York Mets fan, and has sung the national anthem at Shea Stadium and Citi Field numerous times since 1986.

15. Glenn Close voted for Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election and attended his inauguration.

16. In 2011 Glenn Close sold her apartment in The Beresford for $10.2 million.

17. Glenn Close currently resides in Bedford Hills, New York but still has a condo in the West Village.

18. In February 2006, Glenn Close married executive and venture capitalist David Evans Shaw in Maine.

19. In 1995 Glenn Close was engaged to carpenter Steve Beers, who had worked on Sunset Boulevard, but the two never married, and they separated in 1999.

20. On January 12, 2009, Glenn Close was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7000 Hollywood Boulevard, in front of the Roosevelt Hotel.

21. Glenn Close states, "You have to maintain a certain openness, and if you don't maintain that, you lose something vital as an actor.

22. Glenn Close is regarded as an extraordinarily versatile actress with an immersive acting style.

23. In 2016, Glenn Close was inducted into The Theater Hall of Fame for her work on stage.

24. Glenn Close has hosted the 46th and 49th annual Tony Awards.

25. Glenn Close won the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Musical Performance, and was nominated for her first Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical.

26. In 2008, Glenn Close performed at Carnegie Hall, narrating the violin concerto The Runaway Bunny, a concerto for reader, violin and orchestra, composed and conducted by Glen Roven.

27. Glenn Close was a guest star at the Andrew Lloyd Webber fiftieth birthday party celebration in the Royal Albert Hall in 1998.

28. Glenn Close has had an extensive career performing in Broadway musicals.

29. In 2017, Glenn Close starred in a half hour comedy pilot for Amazon, titled Sea Oak.

30. Glenn Close kept in contact with her co-star Rose Byrne, and the two have become great friends.

31. In 2005 Glenn Close joined the FX crime series The Shield, in which she played Monica Rawling, a no-nonsense precinct captain, this became her first TV role in a series.

32. Glenn Close won a Golden Globe and Screen Actor's Guild award for her performance.

33. Glenn Close has hosted Saturday Night Live in 1989 and in 1992.

34. Glenn Close has provided the voice of Mona Simpson, from The Simpsons, since 1995.

35. In 2019, Glenn Close will star as shipping magnate Maundy Lindros in the opera, Easter, a reimagining of The Detective.

36. Glenn Close will star in Duchess, playing Anna Anderson, who claimed to be the Grand Russian Duchess Anastasia.

37. That same year, Glenn Close starred in an adaptation of novelist Meg Wolitzer's The Wife, which premiered at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival and garnered her critical acclaim.

38. In 2017, Glenn Close appeared alongside Noomi Rapace and Willem Dafoe in What Happened to Monday, a Netflix original movie which premiered in August.

39. Glenn Close appeared in the independent movie 5 to 7 and Low Down.

40. Along with Viola Davis and Uma Thurman, Glenn Close was featured in the 2012 documentary Love, Marilyn, reading excerpts from Marilyn Monroe's diaries.

41. Glenn Close was asked about the fact of not having an Oscar during the film's awards campaign, for which she answered: "And I remember being astounded that I met some people who were really kind of almost hyper-ventilating as to whether they were going to win or not, and I have never understood that.

42. Glenn Close expressed that it became more important for her to make this film to stimulate conversations about transgender issues, "There came a point where I asked, 'Am I willing to live the rest of my life having given up on this?' And I said, 'No I won't.

43. In 2007, Glenn Close joined friend and previous co-star Meryl Streep in the ensemble drama Evening.

44. Glenn Close starred in Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her in the same year, this would be one of many future collaborations with director Rodrigo Garcia.

45. In 1999, Glenn Close provided the voice of Kala in Disney's animated film Tarzan.

46. Glenn Close appeared in the newsroom comedy-drama The Paper, directed by her good friend Ron Howard.

47. In the same year, Glenn Close became a trustee emeritus of The Sundance Institute.

48. In 1992, Glenn Close starred in Meeting Venus for which she received critical acclaim and won Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival.

49. In the same year, Glenn Close played Gertrude in Franco Zeffirelli's film adaption of Hamlet.

50. In 1990 Glenn Close went on to play the role of Sunny von Bulow opposite Jeremy Irons in Reversal of Fortune to critical acclaim.

51. Glenn Close earned stellar reviews for this performance, and was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress.

52. Glenn Close stated in an interview that, "Fatal Attraction was really the first part that took me away from the Jenny Fields, Sarah Coopers—good, nurturing women roles.

53. In 1987, Glenn Close played the disturbed book editor Alex Forrest in Fatal Attraction; this was the role that propelled her into stardom.

54. Glenn Close eventually heard about this and said she didn't want Ransohoff on set while she was making her scenes.

55. In 1985 Glenn Close starred in the legal thriller Jagged Edge, opposite Jeff Bridges.

56. Glenn Close was given favorable reviews and even received her second Golden Globe Award nomination, but the movie was critically panned and under-performed at the box office.

57. In 1984 Glenn Close was given a part in Robert Redford's baseball drama The Natural, and although it was a small supporting role she earned a third consecutive Oscar nomination.

58. Glenn Close became the third actor to receive a Tony, Emmy, and Oscar nomination all in the same calendar year after the release of The Big Chill.

59. Glenn Close made her television debut in 1975; it was a small role in the anthology series Great Performances.

60. Glenn Close traveled for several years in the mid-to-late 1960s with an MRA singing group called Up With People and attended Rosemary Hall, graduating in 1965.

61. In an interview Glenn Close stated that her desire to become an actress allowed her to break away from MRA, stating: "I have long forgiven my parents for any of this.

62. Glenn Close described MRA as a "cult" that dictated every aspect of her life, from the clothes that had to be worn to what she was allowed to say.

63. Glenn Close has received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and has been inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.

64. As of 2018, Glenn Close has more Oscar nominations without a win than any other living actor.

65. Glenn Close is a six-time Academy Award nominee, tying the record for being the actress with the most nominations without winning.

66. Glenn Close is an American actress, singer, and producer.