She is not gay, but very gay friendly Glenn Close did play Washington State National Guard colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer in Serving in Silence. Close portrayed the famous former officer who sues after being discharged for revealing her homosexuality.
Close said of the 1995 TV movie:"That’s one of my favorite things I’ve ever done ,because Margarethe Cammermeyer (who also has a birthday this month) was around during the shoot. She was an exacting soldier, very strict about uniform, & how you salute. It was tragic that she was the one kicked out of the Army eventually, because she was homosexual, but the thing that stayed with me… I’ve known many, many gay people. We all went through the AIDS scourge, I’ve lost many friends, & I’ve always been highly sympathetic to the plights of gays, what they’ve had to deal with. But the scene at the end, although I was very open-minded & supportive, when Judy Davis & I had to kiss at the end, I really felt that for 30 seconds, maybe a minute, what it really, really felt like to be attracted to my own gender.”
She has been nominated five times for an Oscar, and once for a BAFTA Film Award, and has won three Tonys, an Obie, three Emmys, two Golden Globes, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.Close turns 64 today.I am a fan. My 10 favorite Glenn Close performances:
The World According To Garp (1982)
The Big Chill (1983)
The Natural (1984)
Dangerous Liaisons (1986) Her best work!
Fatal Attraction (1987)- This film stopped me from adultery & having bunnies as pets.
101 Dalmatians (1996)
Reversal Of Fortune (1990)
Hamlet (1990)
Serving In Silence (1996)
South Pacific (2001)
Will & Grace (2002) as a very thinly veiled Annie Leibovitz
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