Glenne Headly Bio - Biography

Name Glenne Headly
Height
Naionality American
Date of Birth 13-March-1955
Place of Birth New London, Connecticut, U.S.
Famous for Acting
Glenne Headly is an American actress of film, stage and television. While appearing on the Chicago stage in Curse of the Starving Class, Headly was asked to join the Steppenwolf Theatre ensemble, who were looking to expand their group. She appeared in several productions with them, including, Waiting for Lefty, Absent Friends, Savages, Loose Ends, Balm in Gilead, The Coarse Acting Shows, Born Yesterday and House. She also appeared in Robert Falls's production of Mother Courage and Her Children at the Wisdom Bridge Theatre.

In Chicago, she was nominated for five Joseph Jefferson awards and won three for best supporting actress. She received her Actors' Equity card when cast by Vivian Matalon in a summer theatre production of Charley's Aunt and joined SAG, when Arthur Penn wrote a role for her in the film Four Friends. In 1982 she married fellow ensemble member John Malkovich and moved with him to New York City. Soon after, she was cast to replace Ellen Barkin in Extremities with Susan Sarandon off Broadway. She then was cast in The Philanthropist, also off Broadway, and won a Theatre World Award for best newcomer. In New York, she appeared in Balm in Gilead with her fellow Steppenwolf Theatre ensemble members and Arms and the Man on Broadway with Kevin Kline and Raul Julia.

She got several supporting roles in such films as Making Mr. Right, Paperhouse, Seize the Day and Nadine, but it was her role in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels opposite Steve Martin and Michael Caine that launched her future career. She was then cast by Warren Beatty to appear opposite him as Tess Trueheart in Dick Tracy. Her next appearance in a film was to star opposite Demi Moore and Bruce Willis in Mortal Thoughts, directed by Alan Rudolph. It was a time of many changes for her and in 1990 she also divorced Malkovich. In 1992, she went to Canada to work on a small Canadian film called Ordinary Magic with Ryan Reynolds and on the first day of filming, met her future husband Byron McCulloch, whom she married in 1993.

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