Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast.

My thanks as always for clicking and listening along.

Got a great conversation for you today with a bona fide movie icon.

She is Glenn Close.

My gosh, if I began to list her movies, TV shows, performances on

Broadway, we'd be here all day. So I won't bore you with them because you know all of them.

Suffice it to say, this is a woman who came more than 50 years ago in 1974 to New York City

after graduating from the College of William and Mary

studying theater and just started a career with a group of young actresses who all kind of

grew up to be somebody. Merrill Streep was among her young friends. They were 20-somethings running

around the city doing auditions together. By 1980, Glenn Close had been nominated for a Tony Award.

She was spotted in the show called Barnum by the director of an upcoming movie called The World,

According to Garp, starring Robin Williams.

It's her first movie.

She co-stars in it and immediately is nominated for an Academy Award, beginning an incredible

run through the 1980s for her. The next year, 1983, The Big Chill, then the list goes into the

natural, fatal attraction, dangerous liaisons, all of which earn her Oscar nominations. Just an incredible run. 101 Dalmatians.

I mean, like I say, on and on and on, a career more than 50 years, eight Oscar nominations.

She's won three Tony Awards, three Golden Globes, three Emmy Awards. Let's not forget about her

work in television on damages.

So we talk about how she's maintained this longevity, done such great work for so long.

Also interesting to hear about her backstory. She grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut, and then her

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