Glenn Close to Receive NAB Service to America Leadership Awards

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Award-winning stage, screen and TV actress Glenn Close,  award-winning actress who most recently got an Oscar nomination for the title role in Alfred Nobbs, will receive the National Association of Broadcasters' Service to America Leadership award.

She is being honored for her work in helping remove the stigma of mental illness.

The Service to America Awards are being given out June 11 in Washington.

Past winners of the Leadership award include Last year's recipient, Jeff Bridges, Nancy Reagan, Jimmy Carter and Elton John.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.