Glenne Headly

Glenne Aimee Headly (March 13, 1955 – June 8, 2017) was an American actress. She was widely known for her roles in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Dick Tracy, and Mr. Holland's Opus. Headly received a Theatre World Award and four Joseph Jefferson Awards and was nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards.[1]
In 2017, she starred in The Circle and Just Getting Started, the latter marking her final film role, released six months after her death. She also starred with Ed Begley Jr. and Josh Hutcherson in Future Man, Hulu's half-hour comedy television series produced by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg; she died on June 8, 2017, mid-way through filming the series.
== Early life and education ==
Headly was born on March 13, 1955 in New London, Connecticut.[2] Her first years were spent living under the care of her mother, Joan Ida (née Sniscak) Headly,[3] in San Francisco, and her maternal grandmother in Lansford, Pennsylvania.
Early in her elementary school years, she joined her mother, who was then living in Greenwich Village. She studied ballet at the Robert Joffrey school of ballet and modern dance at the Martha Graham Studios. In New York, she attended public schools, including P. S. 41, where she was placed in a class for intellectually gifted children. There, a fifth-grade teacher introduced her to the work of Jacques Cousteau in an oceanography class, inspiring a lifelong interest in preserving the natural world. She later went on to the High School of Performing Arts, majoring in drama and graduating with honors.[4]
Rather than continuing to study the dramatic arts, she attended American College of Switzerland, a small college in Leysin from which she graduated with a bachelor's degree.[5] Soon after, she moved to New York, taking day jobs as a waitress so that she could work nights in the theater for little or no salary.[6]Later, she moved to Chicago,[6] where she joined the New Works Ensemble at the St. Nicholas Theatre. She was eventually cast in a Goodman Theatreproduction of Curse of the Starving Class, directed by Robert Falls and co-starring John Malkovich.[7]
== Film and television career ==
While appearing on the Chicago stage in Curse of the Starving Class, Headly was asked to join the Steppenwolf Theatre ensemble, which was looking to expand.[5] She also appeared in several other productions. 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 Pennwrote a breakout role for her in the film Four Friends.[8]
On August 2, 1982, Headly married fellow ensemble member John Malkovich.[4]Soon after, she replaced Ellen Barkin in Extremities off-Broadway. She then was cast in The Philanthropist, also off-Broadway, and won a Theatre World Awardfor best newcomer.[4] In New York, she appeared in Balm in Gilead with her fellow Steppenwolf Theatre members,[9] and in Arms and the Man, on Broadway, with Kevin Kline and Raul Julia.[10]
=== 1988–1995: Early work ===
Headly played several supporting roles in such films as Making Mr. Right, Paperhouse, Seize the Day and Nadine, but her role in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels(1988), with Steve Martin and Michael Caine, truly launched her film career. In 1988, Headly was named Most Promising New Actress by the Chicago Film Critics Association.[11] That same year, Headly divorced Malkovich after he had an affair with Michelle Pfeiffer during the filming of Dangerous Liaisons.[12][13][14]
In 1989, Headly played the role of Elmira Boot Johnson in the critically acclaimed TV miniseries Lonesome Dove, a part for which she received her first of two Emmy Awards nominations for best supporting actress in a television movie.[15]
Headly then was cast by Warren Beatty to appear as Tess Trueheart in Dick Tracy. She next starred with Demi Moore and Bruce Willis in Mortal Thoughts, directed by Alan Rudolph. In 1992, she worked on a small Canadian film called Ordinary Magic, and on the first day of filming, met her future husband Byron McCulloch, whom she married in 1993.[16] She also co-starred with Ted Dansonand Macaulay Culkin in the 1994 comedy Getting Even with Dad.[17]
=== 1995–2004 ===
Headly appeared in Mr. Holland's Opus, Sgt. Bilko, What's the Worst That Could Happen?, Breakfast of Champions, Around the Bend, 2 Days in the Valley, and others.[18]
Headly appeared in the television movies Winchell, And the Band Played On, Pronto, My Own Country, and Women vs. Men,.[18] Headly received her second of two Emmy Awards nominations for best supporting actress in a television movie for Bastard Out of Carolina (1996).[15] She appeared as Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer's daughter in the 2001 live telecast of the play On Golden Pond for CBS.[19] She was cast in the series Encore! Encore!, starring Nathan Lane and Joan Plowright, from 1998–1999,[20] and had recurring roles as Dr. Abby Keaton on ER from 1996–1997[21] and as Leland Stottlemeyer's wife, Karen, on Monk.[22]
=== 2004–2017 ===
In 2004, she played the mother of Lindsay Lohan's character in Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen.[23] Her recent appearances include the films The Amateurs (2005), The Namesake (2006), Comeback Season (2006), Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008), The Joneses (2009),[24] and Don Jon (2013).[25] More recently, Headly appeared in the film Strange Weather (2016)[26] and in the HBO limited series The Night Of (2016).[27]
==== Future Man ====
Headly and Ed Begley Jr. were cast in lead roles with Josh Hutcherson in Future Man, Hulu's half-hour comedy television series produced by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. Headly died on June 8, 2017, during filming of the series. At the time of her death she had filmed five episodes of the planned 13-episode season order. Producers stated that she would not be recast and that the episodes she filmed will air, leaving the writers the need to rework the episodes in which she was due to feature.[28][29]
== Theater ==
Headly was an ensemble member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company from 1979 until 2005,[30] although she never returned to Chicago to do a play after the late 1980s, believing that such a move would uproot and be disruptive to her family. She took a break from the stage altogether for 10 years until 1999, when she starred with Miranda Richardson in Wallace Shawn's Aunt Dan and Lemon, which premiered at the Almeida Theatre in London.[31][32][33]
In 1983 Headly appeared in Christopher Hampton's The Philanthropist at the Manhattan Theater Club in New York.[34] In 1984, Headly appeared in Lanford Wilson's Balm in Gilead presented by the Circle Repertory Company and the Steppenwolf Theater Ensemble.[35] In 1985, Headly starred as Raina in George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man, directed by John Malkovich, in New York.[36]In 2000, Headly starred as Ellen in Detachments at the Tiffany Theater in Los Angeles, written and directed by Colleen Dodson-Baker.[37]
In 2001, Headly starred as Angela Kennedy Lipsky in the premiere of My Brilliant Divorce at the Druid Theatre in Galway, Ireland.[38] In 2003, Headly starred with David Hyde Pierce in The Guys as part of a revolving cast at the Actors' Gang in Los Angeles. She also appeared in Malkovich's production of Shaw's Arms and the Man, with Kevin Kline at New York City's Circle in the Square Uptown.[39] In 2012, Headly played Eva White in the Geffen Playhouse's production of The Jacksonian, written by Beth Henley.[40] In 2016, once again at the Geffen Playhouse, Headly starred in Sarah Ruhl's Stage Kiss.[41]
== Death ==
Headly died of complications from a pulmonary embolism on June 8, 2017 at the age of 62 in Santa Monica, California.[42][43]
== Filmography ==
=== Film ===
Year	Title 	Role 	Notes 	Refs
1981	Four Friends 	Lola 	 	[44]
1983	Doctor Detroit 	Miss Debbylike 	 	[44]
1985	Fandango 	Trelis 	 	[44]
1985	The Purple Rose of Cairo 	Hooker 	(Billed as Glenne Headley) 	[44]
1985	Eleni 	Joan 	 	[44]
1986	Seize the Day 	Olive 	 	[44]
1987	Making Mr. Right 	Trish 	 	[44]
1987	Nadine 	Renée Lomax 	 	[44]
1988	Stars and Bars 	Cora Gage 	 	[44]
1989	Paperhouse 	Kate Madden 	 	[44]
1988	Dirty Rotten Scoundrels 	Janet Colgate 	Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Most Promising Actress	[44][11]
1990	Dick Tracy 	Tess Trueheart 	 	[44]
1991	Mortal Thoughts 	Joyce Urbanski 	 	[44]
1992	Grand Isle 	Adele Ratignolle	 	[44]
1993	Ordinary Magic 	Charlotte 	 	[44]
1993	And the Band Played On 	Dr. Mary Guinan 	 	[44]
1994	Getting Even with Dad 	Theresa Walsh 	 	[44]
1995	Mr. Holland's Opus 	Iris Holland 	 	[44]
1996	Sgt. Bilko 	Rita Robbins 	 	[44]
1996	2 Days in the Valley 	Susan Parish 	 	[44]
1998	The X-Files 	Bartender 	Uncredited 	[44]
1998	Babe: Pig in the City 	Zootie 	Voice 	[44]
1999	Breakfast of Champions 	Francine Pefko 	 	[44]
2001	Bartleby 	Vivian 	 	[44]
2001	What's the Worst That Could Happen? 	Gloria Sidell 	 	[44]
2004	Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen	Karen 	 	[44]
2004	Eulogy 	Samantha 	 	[44]
2004	Around the Bend 	Katrina 	 	[44]
2005	The Amateurs 	Helen Tatelbaum 	 	[44]
2006	Comeback Season 	Deborah Pearce 	 	[44]
2006	The Namesake 	Lydia 	 	
2006	Raising Flagg 	Anne Marie Purdy	 	[44]
2009	The Joneses 	Summer Symonds 	 	[44]
2013	Don Jon 	Angela 	 	[44]
2015	Dial a Prayer 	Mary 	 	[44]
2015	Merry Xmas 	Sarah 	Short film 	
2016	Strange Weather 	Mary Lou Healy 	 	
2017	The Circle 	Bonnie Holland 	 	[44]
2017	Just Getting Started 	Margarite 	Posthumous release 	[44]
=== Television ===
Year 	Title 	Role 	Notes 	Refs
1989 	Lonesome Dove 	Elmira Boot Johnson 	4 episodes
Nominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie	[44]
1993 	Hotel Room 	Darlene 	Episode: "Tricks" 	[44]
1993 	And the Band Played On 	Dr. Mary Guinan 	Television film 	[44]
1995 	Frasier 	Gretchen 	Voice; episode: "An Affair to Forget"	[44]
1996 	Bastard Out of Carolina 	Aunt Ruth 	Television film
Nominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie	[44]
1996–1997	ER 	Dr. Abby Keaton 	Recurring role, 9 episodes 	[44]
1997 	Pronto 	Joyce Patton 	Television film 	[44]
1998 	My Own Country 	Vickie Talley 	Television film 	[44]
1998 	Winchell 	Dallas Wayne 	Television film 	[44]
1998 	Recess 	Miss Salamone 	voice 	[44]
1998–1999	Encore! Encore! 	Francesca Pinoni 	Main role, 12 episodes 	[44]
2000 	The Sandy Bottom Orchestra 	Ingrid Green 	Television film 	[44]
2001 	The Fugitive 	Renee Charnquist 	Episode: "New Orleans Saints" 	
2001 	A Girl Thing 	Helen McCormack 	Television film 	[44]
2001 	On Golden Pond 	Chelsea Thayer Wayne 	Television film 	[44]
2002 	Rugrats 	Dr. Cathy 	Voice 	[45]
2002 	Women vs. Men 	Brita 	Television film 	[44]
2003–2006	Monk 	Karen Stottlemeyer 	4 episodes 	[44]
2004 	The Guardian 	Anne Joplin 	Episode: "Beautiful Blue Mystic" 	[46]
2005 	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Attorney Simone Bryce	Episode: "Intoxicated" 	[44]
2008 	Grey's Anatomy 	Elizabeth Archer 	Episode: "Lay Your Hands on Me" 	[46]
2008 	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 	Viviana Conway 	Episode: "The Happy Place" 	[46]
2012 	Psych 	Grace Larsen 	Episode: "Autopsy Turvy" 	[47]
2012 	Pound Puppies 	Miss Petunia 	Voice; episode: "Pound Preemies" 	
2012 	Parks and Recreation 	Julia Wyatt 	Episode: "Ben's Parents" 	[46]
2013 	The League 	Gloria 	Episode: "The Von Nowzick Wedding" 	[46]
2016 	The Night Of 	Alison Crowe 	3 episodes 	[46]
2017 	Future Man 	Diane Futturman 	5 episodes; Posthumous release