Glennie played Gertrude in Hamlet at the Cork Opera House.

She read the script and said, "Who's going to play Gertrude?"

In 1995, Fiennes began an affair with Francesca Annis, whom he met when she played his mother Gertrude in the play Hamlet.

Later this year, she will play Gertrude and Ophelia in a Wooster Group production of "Hamlet."

In 1978 she played Gertrude to Derek Jacobi's Hamlet.

A decade later she played Gertrude to Stacy Keach's Hamlet at Long Wharf.

Kate LaRoss, who has been acting in New York for the past year, said that playing Gertrude was the best experience of her career to date.

No, as it happens, he is believably young enough to be the son of Glenn Close, who plays Gertrude.

In London in 1888, she played Gertrude in the Deputy Registrar.

Glenn Close plays Gertrude.