About
| Birth Notes: | 13 March 1955, New London, Connecticut, USA |
| Height: | 5' 7 1/2" |
| Family: | * John Malkovich (2 August 1982 - 1 January 1988) (divorced) * Byron McCulloch (25 August 1993 - present); 1 child |
| Biography: | Glenne Headly has been called "a virtuouso performer...who holds the stage with significant force.." (The Irish Times); "one terrific comedianne who has the placid beauty of a Renaissance Madonna" (New York Times); "mesmerizing,..brilliantly reducing the audience to stunned silence." (The Daily Telegraph); and "a riveting actress.." (Evening Standard) and "..though her dramatic chops are half the reason she excels in comedy; in pure comic terms Headly's an anti-diva. She is no maximalist. She's Count Basie...an idiosyncratic combination ...a stealth performer, whatever the material..." (Los Angeles Times); Warren Beatty said "...she is as witty an actress as we have...she has backbone, she has a real strength of integrity that is uniquely put together....She bears the name Tess Truehart beautifully....she's priceless." (The Register). And yet, she has remained relatively under the radar. For the past fourteen years she has said that family has been the most important thing to her and she has set most of her time aside to be a "present" mother to her son. Movies, plays and television are chosen for the most part, when they occur in town or on a school break. She has taken the current year to homeschool her son for his seventh grade. But it wasn't always this way. She was raised in New York City and wanted to be an actress from the time she was a child, graduating with acting honors from the High School of Performing Arts. She chose to opt out of studying acting in college and attended a small college in Europe, majoring in art history and literature, knowing that acting would take up a great deal of her life and that her college years would her only real time to learn about something else. Upon graduation, she returned to New York City but a chance trip to Chicago inspired her to move there and become a part of its budding theatre community. It was in a production of "Curse of The Starving Class", directed by Robert Falls and co-starring John Malkovich, that she was first seen by the Steppenwolf Theatre Company and subsequently asked to join their troupe. She did and learned what it really was to be an actress on her feet, performing in all kinds of roles in both comedy and drama. During this time, she won four Joseph Jefferson awards for best supporting actress. With a return move to New York, she received a Theatre World Award for "best newcomer" for her role in "the Philanthropist" at the Manhattan Theatre Club and appeared in "Extremities" with Susan Sarandon. This was followed by her appearance in the very successful Steppenwolf production in New York of "Balm in Gilead" . She then starred on Broadway opposite Kevin Kline and Raul Julia in "Arms & the Man", directed by John Malkovich, her husband at the time. She was cast in several smaller films including "Nadine", "Making Mr. Right" and "Paper House" as well as "Lonesome Dove" for television for which she received her first of two Emmy nominations for best supporting actress. But her breakout film performance was in "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels", in which she played the cunning "victim", who gets the best of con artists Michael Caine and Steve Martin. This led to her being cast in the blockbuster comic strip parody. "Dick Tracy", in which she portrayed the girlfriend, "Tess Trueheart" to Warren Beatty's lead. She went on to appear in the films "Mr. Holland's Opus" opposite Richard Dreyfuss, "Mortal Thoughts" opposite Demi Moore, "2 Days in the Valley", "What's The Worst That Could Happen", "Breakfast of Champions", "Around The Bend" and "Confessions of a "Teenage Drama Queen". On television, she had a recurring part on "ER" and "Monk" and was in the short-lived sit-com "Encore, Encore" with Nathan lane and Joan Plowright. She was in the live theatrical presentation of "On Golden Pond" as the troubled daughter of Christopher Plummer and Julie Andrews and also appeared in the telefilms "Men Vs. Women", "My Own Country" and "Pronto" among others. She received her second Emmy nomination for best supporting actress in "Bastard Out of Carolina" directed by Anjelica Huston. Her most recent appearances were in the films "The Amateurs", "The Namesake", "The Comeback Season","Kit Kittridge, American Girl" and "The Joneses". |
Filmography
| 2 Days in the Valley (1996) as Susan Parish |
| Around the Bend (2004) as Katrina |
| Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004) as Karen |
| Eleni (1985) as Joan |
| Eulogy (2004) as Samantha |
| Fandango (1985) as Trelis |
| Getting Even with Dad (1994) as Detective Theresa Walsh |
| Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008) as Louise Howard |
| Nadine (1987) as Renée Lomax |
| Sgt. Bilko (1996) as Rita Robbins |
| The Namesake (2006) as Lydia |
| The X Files (1998) as Barmaid |
| Babe: Pig in the City (1998) as Zootie |
| Bartleby (2001) as Vivian |
| Bastard Out of Carolina (1996) as Aunt Ruth |
| Breakfast of Champions (1999) as Francine Pefko |
| Comeback Season (2006) as Deborah Pearce |
| Dick Tracy (1990) as Tess Trueheart |
| Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988) as Janet Colgate |
| Doctor Detroit (1983) as Miss Debbylike |
| Four Friends (1981) as Lola |
| Grand Isle (1991) as Adele Ratignolle |
| Making Mr. Right (1987) as Trish |
| Mortal Thoughts (1991) as Joyce Urbanski |
| Mr. Holland's Opus (1995) as Iris Holland |
| Ordinary Magic (1993) as Charlotte |
| Paperhouse (1988) as Kate Madden |
| Raising Flagg (2006) as Anne Marie Purdy |
| Seize the Day (1986) as Olive |
| Stars and Bars (1988) as Cora Gage |
| The Joneses (2009) as Summer Symonds |
| The Moguls (2005) as Helen Tatelbaum |
| The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) as Hooker |
| Timecode (2000) as Therapist |
| What's the Worst That Could Happen? (2001) as Gloria Sidell |
Trivia
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* Starred opposite David Hyde Pierce in the play, "The Guys". David Hyde Pierce played a fire chief attempting to write the obituaries for his men lost in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Centre and Headly played his editor. Originally performed in New York in December 2001, the West Coast version premiered in July 2002 with Helen Hunt and Tim Robbins and has had a revolving cast ever since. The Actor's Gang, the theatre of the play, is located in a very small studio on Santa Monica Bouelevard. * She studied ASL (American Sign Language) for her role in the movie Mr. Holland's Opus (1995). * She is a member of MENSA. * Speaks French. * Was an ensemble member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company from 1979 - 2005. * Has a B.A. from the American College of Switzerland. * Gave birth to a son in 1997, father is husband Byron McCulloch. * She was awarded the 1980 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actress in a Supporting Role in a Play for "Say Goodnight, Gracie" at the Travel Light Productions Theatre in Chicago, Illinois. * She was awarded the 1981 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actress in a Supporting Role in a Play for "Balm in Gilead" at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois. * She was nominated for a 1981 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actress in a Principal Role in a Play for "Absent Friends" at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois. * She was nominated for a 1981 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actress in a Supporting Role in the play, "Mother Courage and Her Children," at the Wisdom Bridge Theatre in Chicago, Illinois. * She was nominated for a 1981 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actress in a Supporting Role in a Play for "Mother Courage and Her Children" at the Wisdom Bridge Theatre in Chicago, Illinois. * She was nominated for a 1982 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actress in a Principal Role in a Play for "The House" at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois. * She was awarded the 1983 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actress in a Supporting Role in a Play for "The Miss Firecracker Contest" at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois. * She was awarded the 1985 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actress in a Supporting Role in a Play for "Coyote Ugly" at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois. * She was nominated for a 1988 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actress in a Principal Role in a Play for "Born Yesterday" at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois. |
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