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GLENN CLOSE
Agnes

GLENN CLOSE won Tony Awards for her performances in Sunset Boulevard, Death and the Maiden, and The Real Thing. She made her professional theatre and Broadway debut in Harold Prince's production of Love for Love. Her early stage credits include The Crucifer of Blood, The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs (Obie Award), the musical Barnum (Tony nomination), and Benefactors. Having appeared in more than 35 films, she is a six-time Academy Award nominee for her performances in The World According to Garp, The Big Chill, The Natural, Fatal Attraction, Dangerous Liaisons, and Albert Nobbs (which she also co-wrote and produced). She has produced nine movies for TV including the Sarah, Plain and Tall series for the Hallmark Hall of Fame. Ms. Close won a Golden Globe Award and two Emmy Awards for her performance on the TV series "Damages," and an additional Emmy Award for her performance in the title role in "Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story," which she also coproduced. She received a SAG Award for her performance as Eleanor in "The Lion in Winter." She appears in the feature film adaptation of Marvel Comics' Guardians of the Galaxy and in Low Down, opening in October. She recently completed filming on three additional features: 5 to 7, Anesthesia, and The Great Gilly Hopkins. Ms. Close cofounded Bring Change 2 Mind, an organization working to end the stigma surrounding mental illness.

JOHN LITHGOW
Tobias

JOHN LITHGOW is appearing on Broadway for the 22nd time. He has received six Tony Award nominations, winning twice for his performances inThe Changing Room and Sweet Smell of Success. Mr. Lithgow received back-to-back Academy Award nominations for his performances in The World According to Garp and Terms of Endearment. He has received 11 Emmy nominations and won six times - including three times for his portrayal of Dick Solomon on the NBC series "3rd Rock From the Sun," and once for his performance on "Dexter." Mr. Lithgow is the author of nineNew York Times bestselling children's picture books and a memoir,Drama: An Actor's Education, which focuses on his early life and career. Lithgow has appeared in more than 30 films. His most recent release is Love Is Strange, in theatres now, and he will next be seen on the big screen in Interstellar and The Homesman. He was most recently seen on the New York stage in the title role of the Shakespeare in the Park production of King Lear.

LINDSAY DUNCAN
Claire

LINDSAY DUNCAN won a Tony Award, a Drama Desk Award, and an Olivier Award for her performance inPrivate Lives, and garnered a Tony nomination for her Broadway debut inLes Liaisons Dangereuses, also winning an Olivier Award for that role. Her London stage credits include Hay Fever,That Face (Olivier Award nomination),Mouth to Mouth (Olivier nomination),Ashes to Ashes (also in New York at the Roundabout), The Homecoming, The Cryptogram, Three Hotels, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof(Evening Standard Award), The Merry Wives of Windsor, Troilus and Cressida, Top Girls (also in New York at the Public Theater), and Plenty. Ms. Duncan's film and TV credits include Alice in Wonderland: Through the Looking Glass, Birdman, Le Week-End (British Independent Film Award), Alice in Wonderland, AfterLife (Bowmore Scottish Screen Award), Under the Tuscan Sun, Mansfield Park, An Ideal Husband, "Sherlock," the HBO series "Rome," "Agatha Christie's Poirot," "Oliver Twist," "Shooting the Past," "G.B.H." (BAFTA nomination), "Traffik," "A Year in Provence," and "Richard II" in the BBC's "The Hollow Crown" series.

BOB BALABAN
Harry

Broadway appearances include The Inspector General (Tony Award nomination) and Speed-the- Plow. Off-Broadway appearances include The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel andMarie and Bruce (Public Theater), Some Americans Abroad (Lincoln Center Theater), and Romance and Mr. Happiness (Atlantic Theater Company). Film credits include The Monuments Men, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Moonrise Kingdom, Gosford Park(SAG Award), Waiting for Guffman (and all the Christopher Guest improvised comedies), Deconstructing Harry, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Absence of Malice, and Midnight Cowboy. TV credits include HBO's "Recount" (Emmy Award nomination), "Seinfeld," "The Good Wife," and "Girls." He produced Gosford Park (Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations, BAFTA Award). He also produced and directed HBO's "Bernard and Doris" (DGA, PGA, Golden Globe, and Emmy nominations). Off-Broadway he directed and produced The Exonerated (Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and Lucille Lortel Awards). He will next be seen in HBO's "Show Me a Hero."

CLARE HIGGINS
Edna

CLARE HIGGINS was nominated for a Tony Award for her performance inVincent in Brixton, which she originated at the National Theatre in London. She is the winner of three Olivier Awards for Best Actress for her performances inSweet Bird of Youth (also London Critics' Circle Theatre and Time Out Readers' Awards), Vincent in Brixton (also London Critics' Circle Theatre and Evening Standard Awards), and Hecuba. Other London stage credits includeThe Secret Rapture, Napoli Milionaria (Olivier nomination), Oedipus, All's Well That Ends Well, Richard III, King Lear, Hamlet, Absence of War,The Children's Hour (London Critics' Circle Theatre Award), A Slight Ache/Landscape (National Theatre), A Streetcar Named Desire (Olivier nomination), The Ride Down Mt. Morgan, The Night of the Iguana,Death of a Salesman (Olivier nomination), Phaedra, Mrs. Klein, The Fever, and A Midsummer Night's Dream and Anthony and Cleopatra(Royal Shakespeare Company). Her film credits include The Golden Compass, Woody Allen's Cassandra's Dream, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont, Stage Beauty, The House of Mirth, Hellraiser, Hellbound: Hellraiser II, The Libertine, and I Give It a Year. Recent television includes "Downton Abbey," "Shameless," and "Parade's End."

MARTHA PLIMPTON
Julia

MARTHA PLIMPTON most recently starred in the London premiere of Other Desert Cities, and in the New York Philharmonic's staged concert production of Company. She was nominated for Tony and Drama Desk Awards for her performances in Pal Joey(Roundabout) and Top Girls (Manhattan Theatre Club), and garnered a Tony nomination, the Drama Desk Award, and the Outer Critics Circle Award for her performance in The Coast of Utopia (Lincoln Center Theater). Ms. Plimpton won an Obie Award for her performance in Hobson's Choice (Atlantic Theater Company). Other plays include Hurlyburly (The New Group); Cymbeline (Lincoln Center Theater); A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare in the Park); The False Servant (Classic Stage Company); Boston Marriage and Pericles(Public Theater); The Glass Menagerie (Steppenwolf Theatre Company);Hedda Gabler and The Playboy of the Western World (Steppenwolf Theatre Company and Long Wharf Theatre); and The Heidi Chronicles,The Sisters Rosensweig, and Uncle Vanya (Seattle Repertory Theatre). She has been a member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company ensemble since 1998. Television appearances include the FOX series "Raising Hope," for which she received an Emmy Award nomination and two Critics' Choice Award nominations. In addition, she received an Emmy Award for her role on the CBS series "The Good Wife" and an Emmy nomination for her role on "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit." She has appeared in more than 30 films, including Parenthood,The Goonies, The River Rat, I Shot Andy Warhol, Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, Eye of God, Shy People, Pecker, 200 Cigarettes, I'm Not Rappaport, Beautiful Girls, Running on Empty, Star and Bars, Stanley & Iris, The Mosquito Coast, Small Town Murder Songs, and Another Woman.