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.
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for Catherine Braithwaite in Red Dead Redemption II
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Red Dead Redemption II follows Arthur Morgan, a hardened outlaw and enforcer for the Van der Linde gang, as he navigates the collapse of the Old West in 1899. Alongside gang leader Dutch van der Linde and a cast of complex criminals, Arthur struggles to survive in an increasingly hostile world where law and order are tightening their grip. The narrative explores themes of loyalty, redemption, and mortality as the gang's carefully laid plans unravel and internal tensions threaten to tear them apart. Arthur finds himself caught between his brutal nature and an emerging conscience, particularly through his relationships with fellow gang members and his encounters with those he's wronged. Set across a vast, meticulously detailed American frontier, the game weaves Arthur's personal journey with the gang's desperate attempts to pull off one final score before everything crumbles. As federal agents close in and the gang fractures under pressure, Arthur must confront the consequences of his choices and decide what kind of man he wants to be in his final days. The story is a tragic meditation on the death of an era and the possibility of redemption in a world that offers none.
