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For Glenn Close, "Albert Nobbs" has been a long time coming for its big screen incarnation. Based on a short story by Irish author George Moore, it was first adapted into an off-Broadway production by Simone Benmussa with Close in the lead role that won her an Obie award. The actress has been a driving force behind the film adaptation, shepherding the project for 15 years, taking on the responsibilities of a producer and even co-writing the script with Man Booker prize-winning author John Banville and Gabriella Prekop. So yes, it's passion project for Close, and it's unfortunate that none of that enthusiasm manages to find its way to the big screen. Stodgy, stuffy and somewhat inconsequential, "Albert Nobbs" gets all dressed up but has nowhere to go. Yes, as you might have heard, Albert Nobbs (Close) is not a man. Under disguise for most of her life, she has risen...

How can a woman with no family, no inheritance, and no job prospects survive? If we're talking today, and if we're talking America, at least she stands a chance. If we're talking 19th-century Ireland, posing as a man might be the only way. In the screenplay for "Albert Nobbs," by Glenn Close with Gabriella Prekop and John Banville, based on the short story "The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs" by George Moore, Albert is a woman who does exactly that.And how can an actor with astonishing talents, a rich résumé of memorable roles, and a choice of top-rung actors and crew help bring Albert to the screen? Very nicely, thank you, although the task took Close nearly 30 years. In 1982, she played Albert in a theatricalization by Simone Benmussa. The character haunted Close, who continued developing ideas for the film version of the story. For decades, too, Albert disguised...

Award winning actress Glenn Close plays a woman passing as a man in order to work and survive in 19th century Ireland in this trailer for Albert Nobbs. Some thirty years after donning men’s clothing, she finds herself trapped in a prison of her own making. Mia Wasikowska (Helen), Aaron Johnson (Joe) and Brendan Gleeson (Dr. Holloran) join a prestigious, international cast that includes Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Janet McTeer, Brenda Fricker and Pauline Collins.

The film showed to rave reviews and a bustle of Best Actress Oscar buzz for Close at Telluride Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival in September. The 15th Annual Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood Film Awards will honor the five-time Oscar nominee with the .Hollywood Career Achievement Award. at the festival.s Hollywood Film Awards Gala Ceremony on October 24, 2011.

Glenn Close’s connection to the character of Albert Nobbs stretches back almost three decades...

For Glenn Close, "Albert Nobbs" has been a long time coming for its big screen incarnation. Based on a short story by Irish author George Moore, it was first adapted into an off-Broadway production by Simone Benmussa with Close in the lead role that won her an Obie award. The actress has been a driving force behind the film adaptation, shepherding the project for 15 years, taking on the responsibilities of a producer and even co-writing the script with Man Booker prize-winning author John Banville and Gabriella Prekop. So yes, it's passion project for Close and it's unfortunate that none…...

Albert Nobbs is a 30-year labor of love for Glenn Close, who won an Obie for Simone Benmussa’s 1982 stage play based on a story by George Moore about a straight woman who passes as a male butler in a Dublin hotel in order to survive. Ever since, Close has been trying to turn the story into a movie, and finally pushed it through with actors’ favorite Rodrigo Garcia (Mother & Child) at the helm, thanks to some Fort Worth investors who were impressed that Close had some of her own skin in the $8 million venture. The film shot in chilly Dublin in 32 days. "The story seemed so psychologically modern," says Close, who is radiantly happy as writer-producer-star of the finished movie. "There's ...

Pathe has released a new teaser (below) for Phyllida Lloyd's The Iron Lady (December 16). Could this be Oscar number three for Academy perennial Meryl Streep, with a record 16 nominations? The Weinstein Co. has a full Oscar plate, and their job just got tougher, as Roadside Attractions and Mickey Liddell just took on a formidable possible best actress contender: Glenn Close as gender-bender Albert Nobbs. The two companies also mounted a successful Oscar push for Biutiful, landing Javier Bardem a best actor nomination; and Roadside also scored four Oscar nominations for Winter's Bone, including best actress for Jennifer Lawrence. Close won an Obie for Simone Benmussa’s 1982 stage play based on a story by George Moore about a straight woman who passes as a ...

Star of Tom Jones and They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, she defied typecasting

Susannah York, who has died aged 72, was a vibrant, energetic personality with a devouring passion for work, strong political opinions and great loyalty to old friends. Her international reputation as an actor depended heavily on the hit films she made in the 1960s, including Tom Jones (1963) and They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969, for which she received an Oscar nomination for best supporting actress. But, even when her movie career waned, she worked ceaselessly in theatre, often appearing in pioneering fringe productions. It was typical of her that, although diagnosed with cancer late in 2010, she refused chemotherapy and fulfilled a contractual obligation to do a tour of Ronald Harwood's Quartet.

In her early years York was often cast as an archetypal English rose. But, although born in Chelsea, south-west London (as Susannah Yolande Fletcher), she was raised...

The Tourist, the romantic thriller starring Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie that remakes the French film Anthony Zimmer, has been shooting for a while after taking a very long and winding road to set. Now director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (The Lives of Others) has two new actors to work with: Paul Bettany and Rufus Sewell. We don't know their roles at this point, but this is slowly looking less like an over-cooked studio disaster. [Variety] After the break, Amanda Seyfried and others join the already impressive cast of Albert Nobbs, while Emma Stone could join Steve Carell on screen. The cast of Alfred Nobbs is great already. Glenn Close stars as "a woman who must pass as a man to survive life in 19th century Ireland." It's a role Close already played almost two decades ago on stage in The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs, adapted by Simone Benmussa from...

Amanda Seyfried, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Michael Gambon, Janet McTeer and Orlando Bloom have joined the cast of Rodrigo Garcia's "Albert Nobbs." Glenn Close will reprise her award-winning stage role as a woman who must pass as a man to survive life in 19th century Ireland.According to Variety, Close adapted the script from the short story by Irish author George Moore with author John Banville. Shooting begins in June in Dublin. Close won an Obie Award in 1983 playing the same role in Simone Benmussa's Off-Broadway interpretation of "The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs."Close is producing along with Bonnie Curtis, Julie Lynn and Alan Moloney. This will be Close's third film with Garcia after "Nine Lives" and "Things You Can Tell...

Amanda Seyfried joins Orlando Bloom for Albert NobbsVariety reports that Amanda Seyfried, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Orlando Bloom are joining Rodrigo Garcia's, Albert Nobbs.

Glenn Close is returning to her award-winning stage role as a woman who tries to pass as a man to survive in 19th century Ireland. She is also producing. In addition to this, Close adapted the script that is based on the short story by author George Moore with author John Banville.

Michael Gambon and Janet McTeer have also come aboard this project.

Close picked up an Obie Award in 1983 playing the character in Simone Benmussa's Off Broadway version of "The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs."

Albert Nobbs begins production in June in Dublin.

Glenn Close is to take the leading role in a film of The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs - the play in which she starred off-Broadway in 1982

Glenn Close will play a woman in 1880s Dublin who disguises herself as a man for economic gain in a big screen adaptation of Simone Benmussa's The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs. Close won an Obie award for best actress when she starred in a production of the same play in New York in 1982.

Close has helped adapt the script and will also take a producer's credit. Colombian-born film-maker Rodrigo Garcia is directing, with other cast members said to include Orlando Bloom, Michael Gambon and Janet McTeer.

"I believe in this story and its potential to take everyone on a sensuous, funny, heart-breaking ride," Close said of the project, which will go into production in the summer. The original play was itself...