Glenne Headly

Glenne Headly is one of those actors who deserved way more name recognition than she got, and I'll die on that hill. Trained at LaGuardia High School and with serious stage chops to back it up — four Joseph Jefferson Awards and a Theatre World Award don't lie — she could do anything. Her turn as Janet Colgate in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is genuinely hilarious, and she holds her own against Steve Martin and Michael Caine without breaking a sweat. Then she's warm and grounded alongside Richard Dreyfuss in Mr. Holland's Opus. Two Emmy nominations tell you the TV world noticed too. She passed in June 2017 at just 62, and it felt like losing someone who still had so much left to give. A real actor's actor, gone too soon.

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Name (English)

Glenne Headly

Name (Japanese)

グレン・ヘドリー

Reading

ぐれん・へどりー

Born

March 13, 1955 – June 8, 2017

Origin

New London, Connecticut, United States

Occupation

stage actor / film actor / television actor / actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Goat

High school

Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School

University

American College of Switzerland

Awards & achievements

• 1984 Theatre World Award

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenne%20Headly
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B0%E3%83%AC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%98%E3%83%89%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q449602

Tags

• Connecticut
• stage actor
• film actor
• television actor

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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