Glenn Close is a great example of "Dance 10, Looks 3"

Fuck you, OP. Go back to watching the Kardashians.

Op = wtf? Pointless, witless.

Glenn isn't a great beauty, but she has presence. And when all gussied up, she can look lovely. Plus, she's had a better career than Jessica, despite the lack of Oscar hardware.

I thought she was formidably beautiful in Dangerous Liaisons. Something about that period suited her looks - something glacial, architectural, poised, precise.

"Barnum" was her stage debut. She had been in Richard Rodgers' "Rex" and "The Crucifer of Blood", maybe others. She looked lovely as Charity in "Barnum".

was "not" her stage debut

She always came across as slightly insane to me. She was perfectly cast in that movie.

She's a handsome older woman

She looked lovely in that remake of “It’s Complicated” a few years ago!

It was a disgrace how they tried to rip off Its Complicated, right down to Meryl's look.

She was so fucking ugly in The Big Chill.

She got her little boobies out in "The Big Chill"

Great actress, much better than Meryl Streep.

8 time Oscar nominee!

Soon to be 8 time Oscar loser!

[quote]Plus, she's had a better career than Jessica, despite the lack of Oscar hardware.

That's so true. I'd never thought of it that way. So if Jessica Lange is the poor man's Meryl Streep I guess that makes Glenn Close the median's Glenn Close.

I saw her in Rex. I thought it was a man impersonating a woman, because of the name, and because of how she looked (made up as Elizabeth I, I think). I was only a kid, maybe that's why I was confused. Would never have predicted big stardom.

Maxie!

Sara Rue grew up in NY and her dad was the stage manager for "Barnum" and Glenn Close taught her to juggle as a kid.

She'd make a great Phyllis in "Follies", with Kathy Bates as Sally.

Young G was the textbook definition of "handsome woman." I'm with R2. Lay off the booze, OP.

Life turned into an endless medley of "Gee it had to be you!"

R22 lol

I really liked her in the movie Glengarry, Glenn Close

She was awesome as sociopathic psycho bitch Patty Hewes in Damages.

I love Glenn but she isn't better than Streep r13, she just isn't.

What a wise and thoughtful comment, OP. I've often said the same about Shirley Booth and Irene Ryan, actually.

Like a rhinestone cowbitch!

Her performance in Fatal Attraction alone will live on for many generations to come. She should have an Oscar for that and it's criminal that she doesn't.

"Her looks....held her back". Trying to imagine someone her stature, who has worked consistently among endless options and choices as to which roles to take FOR FORTY YEARS, sitting around thinking "why wasn't i bigger?"

I always liked her in the first thing I saw with her in it on the big screen, "Garp." I think that if they ever did a film version of the late Cloris Leachman's "Phyllis" character for some random reason, it'd be great to cast her in it.

She is in a new movie playing Mila Kunis’ Meemaw.