STEPPENWOLF ALUM GLENNE HEADLY DEAD AT 62
Glenne Headly, an early member of the acclaimed Steppenwolf Theatre Company who went on to star in films and on TV, died Thursday night, according to her agent. She was 62.
“It is with deep sorrow that we confirm the passing of Glenne Headly,” her representative, Annie Schmidt, said but did not say where Headly died or what the cause was.
Headly was known from her performances in the movies “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels” with Steve Martin and Michael Caine, “Mr. Holland’s Opus” with Richard Dreyfuss and Warren Beatty’s “Dick Tracy.”
On TV, she was in the miniseries “Lonesome Dove” and had recurring roles on “ER” and “Monk.”
Last summer, she was seen in HBO’s drama miniseries “The Night Of.” And she had been in production for the upcoming Hulu sitcom “Future Man” from Seth Rogen, who said she was “an amazing person. Incredibly talented. Incredibly kind.”
In 1979, Headly was recruited by Chicago’s budding Steppenwolf Theatre Company, joining such fellow up-and-comers as Gary Sinise, Laurie Metcalf, Terry Kinney and John Malkovich, who would become her first husband. They divorced in 1988.
Headly was a member of Steppenwolf’s ensemble from 1979 to 2005. According to the theater company, she won Jeff Awards with Steppenwolf for work in “Say Goodnight, Gracie,” “Balm in Gilead,” “The Miss Firecracker Contest” and “Coyote Ugly.”
“Her extraordinary talent, comic genius and unwavering work ethic was a driving force in the ensemble’s early growth and success,” Steppenwolf members said in a written statement Friday.
Headly is survived by husband Byron McCulloch, a musician and metal worker whom she married in 1993, and their son Stirling.