Famous actress Glenn Close's life adventures
The life of a 75-year-old American acting diva could one day serve as a template for a film. Her childhood was marked by growing up in a religious cult
Glenn Close, one of the most respected actresses of our time, was born on March 19, 1947, in Connecticut.
The life of a 75-year-old American acting diva could one day serve as a template for a film. Her childhood was marked by growing up in a controversial religious cult founded by evangelical fundamentalist Frank Buchman of Pennsylvania.
“It was a group where everyone had to say the same things and behave the same way. For me, as a child, it was devastating because at a time when I needed to figure out for myself what others were saying I had to be. We were simply not allowed to do anything. It was hard for me because by the time I managed to get out of it all I didn’t trust my instincts. I believed these were thoughts that someone else had instilled in me”, the actress said of the cult she lived in from her seventh to 22 years.
She never revealed how she actually escaped the cult, but it is known that she enrolled in college right after leaving: “I thought the world would change if we all held hands and sang together. I was very naive. A lot of things made me leave, and then I walked into college in the drama department and just became someone else.”
Her incredible acting talent was evident from the very beginning of her studies, so it didn’t take her long to secure roles in various theatrical productions. The film's success came in the 1980s. Director George Roy Hill discovered her in 1980 on Broadway and asked her to audition for “The World According to Garp” with Robin Williams. Of course, she got the role, and the performance in the film secured her first Oscar nomination.
Seven years later, she got a role in the film “Fatal Attraction”, which launched her among the biggest Hollywood stars: “It was the first role with which I moved away from good mother characters. I never prepared more for a movie”.
This cult psychological thriller earned her the fourth Oscar nomination. She won seventh for the 2017 film “The Wife”, but the golden statuette slipped away from her again. Unlike many of her colleagues, Glenn makes no secret of the fact that one day she would like to win it:
“I have always felt like an 'outsider' in the acting world and an award like an Oscar would mean a lot to me because of that feeling. It’s one of the most important film accolades you can get and given how long I’ve been doing this job, of course, it would mean a lot to me.”
She successfully hid her private life from the public eye, but it is known that she married (and divorced) three times. In a relationship with producer John Stark in 1988, she had a daughter, Anne, with whom she starred in “The Wife”.
