![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Actor Born: March 13, 1955 in New London, CT Biography:A well-regarded actress of stage, screen, and television, "Glenne Headly" has spent much her film career playing supporting roles, but occasionally gets to shine in leading roles such as that of the naive-seeming American "soap" heiress who gets the best of con artists "Michael Caine" and "Steve Martin" in "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" (1988). With her delicate but dramatic features, she is reminiscent of such actresses as "Katherine Hepburn". Headly's training is firmly rooted in theater. She graduated from New York's High School of the Performing Arts and attended the Herman Berghof Studios and the American College of Switzerland before joining the prestigious Steppenwolf Theater Company in Chicago, where she worked opposite such respected actors as "Gary Sinise", "Laurie Metcalf", and "John Malkovich" (whom she married and later divorced). While with the troupe, Headly received four Jefferson Awards.... Full Biography
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