Glenn Close

Glenn Close, b. Greenwich, Connecticut, 1947 Playing Gertrude to Mel Gibson’s Hamlet (90, Franco Zeffirelli) may define Glenn Glose’s dilemma: men are permitted to play younger. so actresses have to move up a generation— and down a class, for Glose is an experienced stage actress who h;is played in Lave for Love, The Real Thing, and Death and the Maiden. She is only nine years older than Mel Gibson. This is a strange movie career, full of English-like mums or brave girls (she does rather resemble Virginia McKenna): The World According to Carp (82, George Hoy Hill), TV Big Chill (83, Lawrence Kasdan); The Stone Boy (84, Chris Cain); and The Natural (84, Barry Levinson). She dubbed Andie McDowell in Greustoke (84, Hugh Hudson), failed at comedy in Maxle (S.l, Paul Aaron), and did a competent lawyer in love amid the hokum of jagged Edge (85, Hichard Mar-fjuand).