Hardly remembering Glenne Headly
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Glenne Aimee Headly was an actress. She was born a month and a day before me on March 13, 1955 and passed June 8, 2017 at age 62. She is known for roles in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Dick Tracy, and Mr. Holland's Opus.
I saw all of these and did not remember her being in them. She was awarded a Theatre World Award and four Joseph Jefferson Awards and two Primetime Emmy Award nominations.
Her most notable role in my mind was the western miniseries Lonesome Dove where she played Elmira Boot Johnson whose sole existence was to rejoin the love of her life, the outlaw Dee Boot — whom she found locked up in the Ogallala jail the day prior to his hanging for killing a young boy.
She was only in four episodes but this was some of the most memorable character portrayal I ever witnessed and it would take an excellent actress to pull off the selfish Elmira in all her many difficulties in such the stark rendering Ms Headly presented to the world.
Glenne Headly died of complications from a pulmonary embolism on June 8, 2017 at the age of 62 in Santa Monica, California. She was in the midst of a career which didn't have any indications of ever letting up. She did movies, television, voice acting, and passed during her last portrayal of Dian Futturman in Future Man.
So little did I know of this extremely talented actress. You'd think that I would have taken notice seeing the great respect I have for her due to my recently acquired understanding of who she was and what she did. I think all that is primarily a function of how vastly different her characters were to her actual self. She certainly was taken from us way too soon.