Framed in her kitchen is the prop knife her character Alex used to attack Dan (MichaelDouglas) in Fatal Attraction.Close is the late Princess Diana’s eighth cousin.A big New York Mets fan, she sang the national anthem for a 2006 game that coincided with the 20th anniversary of the team’s 1986 World Series victory.Close’s daughter, AnnieStarke, played the younger version of Close’s character in the movie The Wife.
As of 2022, she has the most Best Actress Oscar nominations—eight—without a win. However, she has won three Tony Awards, three Golden Globe awards and a trio of Emmys.In 2010, she helped launch Bring Change to Mind, a nonprofit working to destigmatize mental illness and open frank dialogues about mental health.Close wasn’t first choice for the role of Alex in Fatal Attraction. DebraWinger, BarbaraHershey and MirandaRichardson were also in the running.Close spent several of her teen years attending school in Switzerland, while her father operated a medical clinic in Democratic Republic of the Congo.At the age of 7, Close and her family joined a “cultlike” spiritual movement called Moral Re-Armament. She left at the age of 22 to study acting at William & Mary in Virginia.Close taught SaraRue to juggle backstage while on the set of the Broadway musical Barnum.Close made her professional debut in the mid-’60s as one-fourth of the Green Glenn Singers, a part of the musical act Up With People.Close’s father Dr. William Close helped control the spread of the deadly Ebola epidemic that affected Zaire in 1976.Her family has been in Greenwich, Connecticut, for 12 generations and her family was one of the four that founded the town in the late 17th Century.In 2017, Close, who has held onto all her costumes from her stage, TV and film projects, donated her entire collection to Indiana University.
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