Nov 10 2008
Honoring Glenn Close
Award winning actress Glenn Close will be honored with Sherry Lansing Leadership Award on December 5 by The Hollywood Reporter, which will be launching its annual issue of “Power 100: Women in Entertainment”.
Glenn Close is the star of the critical hit series Damages which airs on FX cable TV for which she won the Best Actress trophy at the Emmy’s recently.
But she is also being honored for her various contributions to Hollywood in general. The actress has been a five-time Oscar awardee, portraying and personifying varied women characters with colorful and inspiring stories.
The Sherry Lansing award’s past winners include Meryl Streep and Jodie Foster. It was named after the very first woman to run a major Hollywood studio.
Picking the Power 100 Women of Entertainment was a joint task between Reuters and The Hollywood Reporter.
