Age: 79
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Glenda Veronica Close (born March 19, 1947) is an American actress. In a career spanning over five decades on screen and stage, she has received numerous accolades, including three Primetime Emmy Awards, three Tony Awards and three Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for eight Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, and three Grammy Awards. She was named by Time as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2019. Close received eight Academy Award nominations for playing a feminist mother in The World According to Garp (1982), a baby boomer in The Big Chill (1983), a love interest in The Natural (1984), a psychotic ex-lover in Fatal Attraction (1987), a cunning aristocrat in Dangerous Liaisons (1988), an English butler in Albert Nobbs (2011), a troubled wife in The Wife (2017), and an eccentric grandmother in Hillbilly Elegy (2020). Her other films include Reversal of Fortune (1990), The Paper (1994), and Mars Attacks! (1996), Air Force One (1997), and Guardians of the Galaxy (2014). Close also portrayed Cruella de Vil in 101 Dalmatians (1996) and its 2000 sequel and voiced Kala in Tarzan (1999). In television, Close received her first Primetime Emmy Award nomination for her role in the film Something About Amelia (1984) and later won three—Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for portraying Margarethe Cammermeyer in the NBC film Serving in Silence (1995) and Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series twice consecutively for playing Patty Hewes in Damages (2007–2012). On stage, Close made her Broadway debut in the play Love for Love (1974). She later won three Tony Awards, two for Best Actress in a Play for her roles in the plays The Real Thing (1983) and Death and the Maiden (1992), and one for Best Actress in a Musical for the musical Sunset Boulevard (1995). She was Tony-nominated for Barnum (1980). She returned to the Broadway stage in a 2014 revival of A Delicate Balance. In 2016, she returned to Sunset Boulevard on the West End stage, earning a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical nomination. Close is the president of Trillium Productions and co-founder of the website FetchDog. She has made political donations in support of Democratic politicians. She is vocal on issues such as women's rights, same-sex marriage, and mental health. Married three times, she has one daughter, Annie Starke, from her relationship with producer John Starke.
Glenn Close
Baba Yaga
for Baba Yaga in Monsters and Gods : From the Tomb of the Mummy
Suggested by jeanpaulvalley
2 years after the events of "Universal Monsters: The Mummy Legacy", the O'Connell family has found a reason to live since they met certain "monsters" who helped them during their last adventure, these even living in their mansion with them. However, Count Dracula and his new allies have a new plant to make this world a world for Gods and Monsters, finding the old place where the Oasis of Am-Shere was, where he managed to bring back the King Scorpion to life ! Together, they have a dark project : to use the blood of the worst enemy of his family, the last Van Helsing, to summon a powerful demon in this world. However, Doctor Jack Griffin, aka the Invisible Man, becomes aware of all this and goes to inform the O'Connells of what is going on. These and their friends are therefore preparing for a new adventure, while Gabriel Van Helsing also goes in search of them, after the terrible Headless Horseman, controlled by Baba Yaga, one of Dracula's accomplices, has been sent to his trace. Finally, one of the Count's accomplices, Doctor Praetorius, a great admirer of Frankenstein's work, years ago created a "Fiancée" for Victor's "monster", with the aim of using it to get him to join him, but he seems to have worked way too much with Lilith. If the O'Connells thought they had done the hardest part with Dracula the last time, they will discover that they are still far from it...
