BWW Picks Stars We'd Love to See in Female GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS

Sally Field - has previously appeared on Broadway in The Glass Menagerie and The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? Sally Field is a two-time Academy Award winner who was most recently seen starring in Hello, My Name is Doris, a witty and compassionate later-in-life coming-of-age story, co-starring Max Greenfield. The film is written and directed by Michael Showalter. Field previously starred in Steven Spielberg's critically acclaimed Lincoln as Mary Todd, for which she won the New York Film Critics award for Best Supporting Actress and was also nominated for a Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, Critics Choice, BAFTA and Academy Award. Field previously won Academy Awards for her performances in Robert Benton's Places in the Heart, for which she also received a Golden Globe, and Martin Ritt's Norma Rae, for which she received a Golden Globe, along with the New York Film Critics prize, the National Board of Review Award, the Los Angeles Film Critics Award, the National Society of Film Critics honor and Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival.

Glenn Close made her West End debut in bravura sold-out limited engagement at the English National Opera (ENO) in April 2016, winning an Evening Standard Award for her iconic portrayal of Norma Desmond. A six-time Academy Award nominee, Close won a TONY award for her portrayal of Norma Desmond in Webber's Sunset Boulevard, and won a London Evening Standard award for the London Coliseum production of the show in Spring 2016. She reprised the role this year at the Palace Theatre in New York.

Jessica Lange is lauded as one of the greatest actresses of her generation, Jessica Lange recently won the Tony, Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk awards for her star turn as "Mary Tyrone" in Roundabout Theatre Company's acclaimed revival of Long Day's Journey into Night. Lange is also a two time Academy Award winner, five-time Golden Globe winner, and three-time Emmy and SAG winner with more than 30 credits to her name. Following the success of Long Day's Journey, Lange starred in FX's anthology series "Feud" and received her eighth Emmy Award nomination.

Susan Sarandon has appeared on TV in episodes of Rescue Me, ER, Friends and 30 Rock. The actress most recently appeared on Broadway in the critically acclaimed production of 'Exit The King', along with co-stars Geoffrey Rush,Lauren Ambrose, Andrea Martin, William Sadler and Brian Hutchison. The Eugene Ionesco's classic comedy was directed by Neil Armfield, and translated by Armfield and Rush. She received Drama Desk nominations for her roles in the Off-Broadway productions of Extremities and A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking and also starred in The Exonerated Off-Broadway and The Guys Off-Off Broadway. She appeared on Broadway in Gore Vidal's controversial ensemble piece, An Evening with Richard Nixon, in 1972.

For the role of Richard Roma...

Cate Blanchett is a two-time Academy Award winner (The Aviator, Blue Jasmine), Blanchett's first major stage role was in 1992 in David Mamet's Oleanna for the Sydney Theatre Company, where she later served as Co-Artistic Director. Numerous stage appearances in London and New York include Plenty (1999), Hedda Gabler (2006), A Streetcar Named Desire (2009), Gross und Klein (2012), Uncle Vanya (2012) The Maids (2014) and The Present (2017), for which she received her first Tony Award nomination. Her film roles include Carol, Truth, Cinderella, The Monuments Men, Blue Jasmine, Ocean's 8, Where'd You Go Bernadette, The House with a Clock in Its Walls, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Hanna, Robin Hood, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, I'm Not There, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, The Good German, Notes on a Scandal, Babel, Little Fish, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Aviator, Coffee and Cigarettes, The Missing, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Veronica Guerin, Heaven, The Shipping News, Charlotte Gray, Bandits, The Gift, The Talented Mr Ripley, Pushing Tin, Elizabeth, Oscar and Lucinda.Theatre awards: Four Helpmann Awards for Best Female Actor in a Play (The Maids, Gross und Klein, Uncle Vanya, Hedda Gabler), two Sydney Theatre Awards for Best Actress in a Lead Role (Gross und Klein, A Streetcar Named Desire), two Helen Hayes Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Non-Resident Production (Uncle Vanya, A Streetcar Named Desire). Film awards: Three Best Actress BAFTAs (Blue Jasmine, Elizabeth, The Aviator), three AFI Awards (Little Fish, Thank God He Met Lizzie, Oscar and Lucinda), three SAG Awards (Blue Jasmine, The Aviator, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King), three Golden Globe Awards (Blue Jasmine, Elizabeth, I'm Not There), and the Venice Film Festival's Volpi Cup for Best Actress (I'm Not There).

Kerry Washington has gained wide public recognition for starring in the ABC drama Scandal, a Shonda Rhimes series in which she plays Olivia Pope, a crisis management expert to politicians and power brokers in Washington DC, and also is a producer. For her role, she has been nominated twice for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series, and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Television Series. Washington is also known for her roles as Della Bea Robinson, in the film Ray, as Kay in The Last King of Scotland, as Alicia Masters in the live-action Fantastic Four films of 2005 and 2007, and as Broomhilda von Shaft in Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained. She has also starred in the independent films Our Song, The Dead Girl, Mother and Child and Night Catches Us. The actress starred in RACE on Broadway in 2009. In 2016, she portrayed Anita Hill in the HBO television film Confirmation and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or a Movie. In April 2014, Time magazine included Washington in its annual "Time 100" list.

Nicole Kidman gained universal attention in her turn as Rae Ingram in Dead Calm, Philip Noyce's critically acclaimed psychological thriller. She was honored with her first Oscar® nomination for her performance in Baz Luhrmann's innovative musical, Moulin Rouge! For that role as Satine, and her performance in writer/director Alejandro Amenabar's psychological thriller, The Others, she received dual 2002 Golden Globe nominations, winning for Best Actress in a Musical for Moulin Rouge! In 2003, Kidman won an Academy Award®, Golden Globe Award and BAFTA Award for her portrayal of Virginia Woolf in Stephen Daldry's The Hours. In 2010, Kidman executive produced and starred in John Cameron Mitchell's Rabbit Hole, for which she received Academy Award®, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild and Independent Spirit Award nominations. Kidman also appeared in HBO's Hemingway and Gellhorn alongside Clive Owen in 2012, garnering her Emmy®, SAG and Golden Globe nominations for her portrayal as Martha Gellhorn. Kidman has currently been working on Big Little Lies for which she won both an Emmy and a Golden Globes.

Robin Wright is the recipient of seven Primetime Emmy Award nominations and has earned a Golden Globe Award and a Satellite Award for her work in television. She recently appeared in Netflix's popular series House of Cards. Past film credits include The Congress, Rampart, Moneyball, The Conspirator, State of Play, Forrest Gump, The Princess Bride and more.

For the role of Dave Moss...

Laurie Metcalf most recently won a Tony Award for her unforgettable performance in Three Tall Women. She also previously one a Tony for last season's A Doll's House, Part 2, and received three Emmy Awards for her portrayal of Jackie Harris in the hit television series "Roseanne." At MCC Theater, she received Lucille Lortel and Obie Awards for her performance in Sharr White's The Other Place, a role she reprised for Broadway and for which she also received a Tony Award nomination. Metcalf is currently on Broadway in Three Tall Women.

Sarah Jessica Parker has numerous New York theatre credits - most notably her performances in How To Succeed oppostite her husband Matthew Broderick and in Once Upon a Mattress. Parker played Carrie Bradshaw on the HBO television series "Sex and the City" (1998-2004) as well as serving as an executive producer, has won four Golden Globe Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and two Emmy Awards. Parker reprised her role and served as a producer for the screen adaptation of the hit series with the theatrical release of "Sex and the City" and "Sex and the City 2." Past film credits include: "I Don't Know How She Does It," "Smart People," "Failure to Launch," "The Family Stone," "State and Main," "Mars Attacks!," "Ed Wood," "The First Wives Club," "Miami Rhapsody" and "Honeymoon in Vegas."

AAngela Bassett's talent and abilities as an actress, director, and executive producer in both television and film have garnered well-deserved respect and acclaim from peers and fans; proving her to be one of the industry's premier leading ladies. She currently stars in Marvel's mega-hit movie Black Panther and FOX Television's highly acclaimed new drama 9-1-1. Notable credits include What's Love Got To Do with It, Green Lantern, Notorious, Black Nativity, Jumping the Broom, Malcolm X, Vampires in Brooklyn, Meet the Robinsons, Sunshine State, Waiting to Exhale, and many more.

Toni Colette achieved international recognition for her Academy Award-nominated portrayal of Lynn Sear in The Sixth Sense (1999). She quickly became one of the best-known and highest-paid Australian actresses in Hollywood, who has had her biggest commercial successes with thrillers such as Shaft (2000) and Changing Lanes (2001) and independent comedy films like About a Boy (2002), In Her Shoes (2005) and Little Miss Sunshine (2006).

For the role of George Aaronow...

Holly Hunter starred on stage in THE WAKE OF JAMEY FOSTER and CRIMES OF THE HEART. She starred in The Piano for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. She has also been nominated for an Oscar for her roles in Broadcast News, The Firm, and Thirteen. Hunter has also won two Emmy Awards with seven nominations and has won a Golden Globe Award with another six nominations.

Joan Cusack received Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress for her roles in the romantic comedy-drama Working Girl and the romantic comedy In & Out, as well as one Golden Globe nomination for her performance in the latter. She is also the voice of Jessie in the Toy Story franchise. Cusack was a cast member on the comedy sketch show Saturday Night Live from 1985 to 1986. She starred on the Showtime hit drama/comedy Shameless for which she has received five consecutive Emmy Award nominations, winning for the first time in 2015.

Molly Shannon made her Broadway debut in the 2010 revival of PROMISES, PROMISES. She is best known as a cast member on NBC's SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE from 1995 to 2001. In 2017 she won the Film Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film Other People. She has appeared in supporting roles in a number of films, such as A Night at the Roxbury (1998), Never Been Kissed (1999), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), Osmosis Jones (2001), My Boss's Daughter (2003), Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006) and Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015). Her voice can also be heard in Igor (2008) and the Hotel Transylvania film series.

For the role of John Williamson...

Julianna Margulies achieved wide recognition for her role as Carol Hathaway on NBC's long-running medical drama ER, for which she won an Emmy Award. She also voiced Neera in Dinosaur and appeared in the miniseries The Mists of Avalon. In 2009, she took on the lead role of Alicia Florrick in the American legal drama The Good Wife on CBS. Her performance on that show has garnered acclaim: she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series twice, a Golden Globe, and a Television Critics Association Award. As of summer 2018, she is co-starring in the AMC dark comedy Dietland. Margulies has won eight Screen Actor Guild Awards, making her the second most awarded woman ever within SAG. In 2015, TIME featured her as one of the "100 Most Influential People in the World".

Emily Blunt will star in the upcoming Mary Poppins Returns. She previously appeared in the film version of Into the Woods. Other credits include The Young Victoria (2009), the romantic comedy Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011), the science fiction films The Adjustment Bureau (2011), Looper (2012), and Edge of Tomorrow (2014), and the musical fantasy Into the Woods (2014). She gained praise for playing a principled FBI agent in the crime film Sicario (2015) and an alcoholic woman in the thriller The Girl on the Train (2016); for the latter she received a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Most recently, Blunt collaborated with her husband, John Krasinski, in the acclaimed horror film A Quiet Place.

Kristen Wiig starred for seven seasons on NBC's SNL, where she was a regular from 2005-12. She earned three supporting actress in a comedy Emmy nominations. In recent years she has appeared on the big screen in BRIDESMAIDS, for which she earned an Oscar nomination for co-writing the original screenplay, DOWNSIZING and MOTHER!.

Helen Hunt performed the role of 'Emily' in the Tony Award-winning Lincoln Center Theatre production of Our Town, in which Spalding Gray was the 'Stage Manager.' (Mr. Cromer has dedicated his production of Our Town to the memory Spalding Gray). Ms. Hunt's last Broadway appearances were in Yazmena Reza's Life (x) 3, and as 'Viola' in Lincoln Center Theater's production of Twelfth Night.

For the role of James Lingk...

Jessica Hecht last starred on Broadway in Fiddler on the Roof. She was nominated for a Tony Award for her performance in the recent revival of Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge opposite Liev Schreiber and Scarlett Johansson. Her other Broadway appearances include the revivals of Harvey opposite Jim Parsons, Brighton Beach Memoirs opposite Laurie Metcalf, Julius Caesar opposite Denzel Washington, After the Fall opposite Peter Krause and Carla Gugino, and her Broadway debut in the Tony Award winning play, The Last Night of Ballyhoo. Her many Off-Broadway appearances include starring roles in The Three Sisters (Classic Stage Company), Make Me (Atlantic Theater Company), The House in Town (Lincoln Center Theater), Stop, Kiss (The Public Theater), Lobster Alice (Playwrights Horizons), Plunge (Playwrights Horizons), Flesh and Blood (New York Theatre Workshop) and The Fourth Sister (Vineyard Theatre). She has spent nine seasons at the Williamstown TheatreFestival, where she last played "Blanche" opposite Sam Rockwell in A Streetcar Named Desire. She will next be seen on film in Stacey Cochran's A+ and was most recently seen in Tim Blake Nelson's Anesthesia. Her other recent films include The English Teacher with Julianne Moore, "Emma Goldman" in Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar with Leonardo DiCaprio, Rob Reiner's The Summer of Monte Wildhorn with Morgan Freeman, and Jonah Hill's mother in The Sitter. Other films include Helena From the Wedding, Fair Game with Naomi Watts and Sean Penn, The Winning Season with Sam Rockwell, and Wes Craven's My Soul to Take. She was also seen in Woody Allen's Whatever Works with Larry David, Dan in Real Life with Steve Carrell, Starting out in the Evening with Frank Langella, Sideways with Paul Giamatti, The Forgotten with Julianne Moore, and Tim Blake Nelson's The Grey Zone. Ms. Hecht's extensive television work includes her recurring roles on "Bored to Death" opposite Ted Danson, "Breaking Bad" opposite Bryan Cranston and "Person of Interest." Well known for her role as "Susan" on "Friends," she also starred in "The Single Guy" with Jonathan Silverman, and in James Brooks's "What about Joan?" with Joan Cusack. Her many memorable performances include guest appearances on numerous television series including "The Good Wife," "Nurse Jackie," "ER," "Seinfeld" and "Jessica Jones." She will next be seen in the forth

Sarah Paulson has appeared on Broadway in the plays The Glass Menagerie in 2005 and Collected Stories in 2010. She also starred in a number of independent films, and had a leading role on the ABC comedy series Cupid in 2009. She later starred in the independent drama film Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011), and received Primetime Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations for her performance as Nicolle Wallace in the HBO film Game Change (2012). She starred as Mary Epps in the 2013 historical drama film 12 Years a Slave, as Abby Gerhard in the 2015 romantic drama film Carol, and as Toni Bradlee in the 2017 political thriller film The Post, all of which earned multiple Academy Award nominations. Paulson's other films include Serenity (2005), New Year's Eve (2011), Mud (2012), Blue Jay (2016), and Ocean's 8 (2018). In 2011, Paulson began starring in the FX anthology series American Horror Story, playing different characters in each of the show's seven seasons. For her work throughout the series, she has been nominated for four Primetime Emmy Awards between 2013 and 2016 and won two Critics' Choice Television Awards for Best Supporting Actress in a Movie/Miniseries in 2013 and 2015. In 2016, Paulson portrayed real life prosecutor Marcia Clark in the first season of the anthology series American Crime Story, subtitled The People v. O. J. Simpson. For her work in the series, she won the Emmy Award, Critics' Choice Television Award, TCA Award, Screen Actors Guild Award and Golden Globe Award for Outstanding Lead Actress. In 2017, Time named Paulson one of the 100 most influential people of the year.

Renee Zellweger has received critical acclaim and numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, three Golden Globe Awards, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. She was also named Hasty Pudding's Woman of the Year in 2009, and established herself as one of the highest-paid Hollywood actresses in 2007. Her role in the musical Chicago (2002) earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress and won her a Golden Globe Award. She won the Academy Award, the BAFTA Award, the Golden Globe Award, and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actress for the epic war drama Cold Mountain (2003). She later reprised her title role in Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004), starred in Cinderella Man (2005), and played author Beatrix Potter in the biopic Miss Potter (2006). She had several starring roles in limited release films, such as Appaloosa (2008), My One and Only (2009), Case 39 (2009), and My Own Love Song (2010), which were followed by a six-year hiatus from acting work. Zellweger returned to the screen for the third Bridget Jones film, Bridget Jones's Baby (2016).