1. In 2017, Glenne Headly appeared in two films, The Circle and Just Getting Started.
30 Facts About Glenne Headly
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Glenne Headly died on June 8,2017, mid-way through filming the series.
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Glenne Headly was born on March 13,1955, in New London, Connecticut.
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Glenne Headly studied ballet at the Robert Joffrey school of ballet and modern dance at the Martha Graham Studios.
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Glenne Headly later went on to the High School of Performing Arts, majoring in drama and graduating with honors.
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Glenne Headly was eventually cast in a Goodman Theatre production of Curse of the Starving Class, directed by Robert Falls and co-starring John Malkovich.
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Glenne Headly received her Actors' Equity card when cast by Vivian Matalon in a summer theatre production of Charley's Aunt, and joined SAG when Arthur Penn wrote a breakout role for her in the film Four Friends.
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Glenne Headly was then cast in The Philanthropist, off-Broadway, and won a Theatre World Award for best newcomer.
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Glenne Headly played several supporting roles in such films as Making Mr Right, Paperhouse, Seize the Day and Nadine, but her role in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, with Steve Martin and Michael Caine, truly launched her film career.
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In 1988, Glenne Headly was named Most Promising New Actress by the Chicago Film Critics Association.
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That same year, Glenne Headly divorced Malkovich after he had an affair with Michelle Pfeiffer during the filming of Dangerous Liaisons.
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In 1989, Glenne Headly played the role of Elmira Boot Johnson in the critically acclaimed TV miniseries Lonesome Dove, a part for which she received her first of two Emmy Awards nominations for best supporting actress in a television movie.
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Glenne Headly next starred with Demi Moore and Bruce Willis in Mortal Thoughts, directed by Alan Rudolph.
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Glenne Headly co-starred with Ted Danson and Macaulay Culkin in the 1994 comedy Getting Even with Dad.
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Glenne Headly appeared in the television movies Winchell, And the Band Played On, Pronto, My Own Country, and Women vs Men.
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Glenne Headly received her second of two Emmy Awards nominations for best supporting actress in a television movie for Bastard Out of Carolina.
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Glenne Headly appeared as Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer's daughter in the 2001 live telecast of the play On Golden Pond for CBS.
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Glenne Headly appeared in the films The Amateurs, The Namesake, Comeback Season, Kit Kittredge: An American Girl, The Joneses, and Don Jon.
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Glenne Headly died on June 8,2017, during filming of the series.
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Glenne Headly was an ensemble member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company from 1979 until 2005, although she never returned to Chicago to do a play after the late 1980s, believing that such a move would uproot and be disruptive to her family.
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Glenne Headly took a break from the stage altogether for 10 years until 1999, when she starred with Miranda Richardson in Wallace Shawn's Aunt Dan and Lemon, which premiered at the Almeida Theatre in London.
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In 1983, Glenne Headly appeared in Christopher Hampton's The Philanthropist at the Manhattan Theater Club in New York.
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In 1984, Glenne Headly appeared in Lanford Wilson's Balm in Gilead presented by the Circle Repertory Company and the Steppenwolf Theater Ensemble.
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In 1985, Glenne Headly starred as Raina in George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man alongside Kevin Kline, directed by John Malkovich, in New York.
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In 2000, Glenne Headly starred as Ellen in Detachments at the Tiffany Theater in Los Angeles, written and directed by Colleen Dodson-Baker.
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In 2001, Glenne Headly starred as Angela Kennedy Lipsky in the premiere of My Brilliant Divorce at the Druid Theatre in Galway, Ireland.
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In 2003, Glenne Headly starred with David Hyde Pierce in The Guys as part of a revolving cast at the Actors' Gang in Los Angeles.
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In 2012, Glenne Headly played Eva White in the Geffen Playhouse's production of The Jacksonian, written by Beth Henley.
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In 2016, at the Geffen Playhouse, Glenne Headly starred in Sarah Ruhl's Stage Kiss.
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Glenne Headly died of complications from a pulmonary embolism on June 8,2017, at age 62, in Santa Monica, California.