By Danielle Daniels
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Glenda Veronica “Glenn” Close (born March 19, 1947) is an American actress. In a career spanning over six decades, she has garnered numerous accolades, including three Tony Awards, three Emmy Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards. She has been nominated eight times for an Academy Award, sharing the record for most nominations in acting categories without a win with Peter O’Toole. In 2016, she was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame, and in 2019, Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Close began her professional career on the stage in 1974 with Love for Love. She received her first Tony Award nomination for her role in Barnum and later went on to win three competitive Tony Awards for her roles in the plays The Real Thing (1983) and Death and the Maiden (1992), and the musical Sunset Boulevard (1995). She returned to the Broadway stage in a 2014 revival of A Delicate Balance. She reprised her role as Norma Desmond in a West End and Broadway revival in 2016 and 2017 respectively. She has also hosted the Tony Awards twice, in 1992 and 1995.
Close received eight Academy Award nominations for her roles in The World According to Garp (1982), The Big Chill (1983), The Natural (1984), Fatal Attraction (1987), Dangerous Liaisons (1988), Albert Nobbs (2011), The Wife (2017), and Hillbilly Elegy (2020). She has also starred in Jagged Edge (1985), Reversal of Fortune (1990), Hamlet (1990), The House of the Spirits (1993), The Paper (1994), Mars Attacks! (1996), and Air Force One (1997). She also portrayed Cruella de Vil in 101 Dalmatians (1996) and its sequel 102 Dalmatians (2000).
For her work on television she won her first Primetime Emmy Award for her performance in the television film Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (1995). For her portrayal of Eleanor of Aquitaine in the Showtime television film The Lion in Winter (2003) she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film. From 2007 to 2012, Close starred as Patty Hewes in the drama series Damages, for which she received two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series.
Close has been married three times, and has a daughter from her relationship with producer John Starke. She is the president of Trillium Productions and has co-founded the website FetchDog. She has made political donations in support of Democratic politicians and is vocal on issues such as women’s rights, same-sex marriage, and mental health.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
In the Northern Hemisphere, the next vernal or spring equinox occurs on March 19, 2024, at 11:06 P.M. EDT. and marks the astronomical start of the spring season. The word equinox is derived from the Latin words meaning “equal night.” The vernal, or spring, equinox is the point at which the Sun appears to cross the celestial equator from south to north, signaling the beginning of nature’s renewal in the Northern Hemisphere. To learn everything about this equinox, go to Almanac.com/spring.
Question of the Day
We’re tempted to say two, but then it would be a small herd and a “giggle” instead of a gaggle! Actually, if you’re speaking of domestic cattle and geese, the only limit we can think of is the farmer’s ambitions.
As for the size of a pride of African lions, these family units may be as small as 2 lions to as many as 40; usually with 1 to 4 males (often related), about 12 related females, and their young cubs. The lionesses, which may include mothers, sisters, and cousins, usually stay together in the same pride for life, while the resident males may vary, staying for an average of about 2 years. Young males (often brothers and cousins) may be driven from their original pride, but stay together in separate groups (coalitions), until they are strong enough to seek to join a new pride, challenging the resident males in order to take their place. Lionesses do most of the hunting, while the males will guard the pride and hunt occasionally.
There are lots of little-known collectives, such as these bird groupings: a “chatter” of budgerigars, a “twittering” of magpies, a “murmuration” of starlings, and an “exaltation” of larks. Discover more interesting animal group names!
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Born
- David Livingstone (explorer) –
- Richard Francis Burton (explorer, scholar) –
- Albert Pinkham Ryder (painter) –
- Wyatt Earp (legendary marshal) –
- William Jennings Bryan (politician) –
- Earl Warren (Supreme Court justice) –
- Albert Speer (architect) –
- Adolf Eichmann (Nazi leader) –
- Leonidas Alaoglu (mathematician) –
- Jay Berwanger (football player) –
- Irving Wallace (novelist) –
- Phillip Roth (writer) –
- Phyllis Newman (actress) –
- Glenn Close (actress) –
- Bruce Willis (actor) –
- Connor Trinneer (actor) –
Died
- Edgar Rice Burroughs (author) –
- The Rev. Carl McIntire (right-wing radio preacher) –
- Brian Maxwell (Canadian world-ranked marathoner who created the PowerBar in his kitchen to improve his performance) –
- John DeLorean (automotive innovator who left General Motors Corp. to develop a radically futuristic sports car) –
- Gus Bernier (host of the children’s program The Uncle Gus Show) –
- Arthur C. Clarke (science fiction writer, author of 2001: A Space Odyssey) –
- Paul Scofield (actor) –
Events
- $245,000 stolen from City Bank of New York–
- Daylight Saving Time was first enacted in the United States–
- Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles by a vote of 49-35–
- Academy Awards were first televised–
- Senate confirmed the nominations of William Brennan and Charles Whittaker to the U.S. Supreme Court–
- Elvis Presley paid a $1,000 deposit to buy Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee–
- Great St. Bernard Tunnel, 3.6 miles long, between Italy and Switzerland in the Alps, officially opened to automobile traffic–
- Nicolae Ceausescu became head of the Romanian Communist Party and government–
- President Johnson signed into law a bill eliminating the requirement that U.S. currency be backed by gold–
- East German Premier Stoph and West German Chancellor Brandt met in Erfurt, East Germany, at the first meeting of the heads of the postwar German states–
- Rev. Jim Bakker resigned as head of his TV ministry, the PTL Club, after admitting to an affair with a church secretary–
- 1,383-square-foot omelet made, Yokohama, Japan–
Weather
- A tornado jumped from Ohio City to Landeck to Columbus Grove, Ohio–
- 17.6 inches of snow, Boston, Massachusetts–
- 5.38-inch-wide, 9.8-ounce hail fell in Walter, Alabama–
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