Glenn Close began her professional stage career in 1950 .
Close began her professional stage career in 1950 in Love for Love , and was mostly a New York stage actress through the rest of the 1950s and early 1960s , appearing in both plays and musicals , including the Broadway productions of Barnum in 1960 and The Real Thing in 1963 , for which she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play .
Glenn Close