With a 50-year career and brilliant performances under her belt, Glenn Close has a family connection to Brazil
On the first weekend of April, while most American movie stars were isolated in Los Angeles mansions, Glenn Close braved 10-degree cold in New York as a volunteer for a group that collects food for the needy.
This attitude reveals the lifestyle of one of the greatest actresses of all time. In March you turn 77 and celebrate half a century of career since your first professional performance in the theater.
At home, he holds dozens of awards, including Tony, Golden Globe, Critic Choice, Satellite, Spirit Awards and movie actor trophies. But he has no Oscar, despite eight nominations.
“The Academy doesn’t like it,” said the late film critic and Rubens Prize presenter Ewald Filho. It is difficult to understand why the majority of voters did not recognize Glenn’s impeccable performance.
Among the best, the obsessed Alex in ‘Fatal Attraction’ (1987), the sordid Marquise de Merteuil in ‘Dangerous Liaisons’ (1989), the oppressed transsexual Albert Nobbs in the film of the same name (2011) and the altruistic Joan in “The Wife” (2017).
Ok, there have been other actresses with incredible and deserving performances, but the Academy could have already recognized Glenn Close’s talent and artistic contribution with an honorary Oscar, which serves, among other things, precisely to correct injustices.
One only has to research history to see that some less than brilliant actors and actresses with countless forgettable performances have received the honor. It’s time for the great artist, with almost 100 of her works under her belt, to receive a standing ovation at the biggest festival of the seventh art.
Many say she is better than Meryl Streep (three Oscars) and on the same level of excellence as Katharine Hepburn (record holder with four Golden Man statuettes).
Known for her sobriety, Glenn Close downplays the lack of an award on her shelf. “You are among the five people honored for the work you have done with your colleagues. What’s better?”, she said, appearing satisfied with his recommendations.
He proved to be the antithesis of the Hollywood star stereotype. She’s not a fan of plastic surgery, she posts photos with messy hair and no makeup, she dresses in normal clothes every day and, when she’s not filming, she enjoys her home routine.
Now that I think about it, he doesn’t need an Oscar as consolation. Perhaps it would be better to remain in the group of giant artists snubbed by the Academy, such as Natalie Wood, Richard Burton, Montgomery Clift, Marlene Dietrich, Ava Gardner, Ian McKellen, Annette Bening, Ralph Fiennes…
Glenn Close has an only daughter, Anne, married to the executive Marc Albu, of Brazilian origin. She likes the work of Fernanda Montenegro. “It doesn’t make sense,” she said, analyzing the Brazilian’s defeat at the 1999 Oscars, when she was in the running for the role of the writer Dora in ‘Central do Brasil’.
Source: Terra
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