Albert Nobbs

Albert Nobbs

It's been a while since we have seen Glenn Close on the big screen after the actress found success on TV with legal drama Damages.

But next month we will see her return with her new movie Albert Nobbs, for which she has already picked up a Best Actress Oscar nomination for her central performance.

But this is Glenn Close like you have never seen her before as she takes on the title role, who is a woman living as a man.

And we have a couple of new clips of the movie for you to take a look at:

Janet McTeer was also Oscar nominated for her role in the movie and she and Close are joined by Mia Wasikowska, Aaron Johnson and Jonathan Rhys Meyers.

Rodrigo García is in the director's chair for the movie, having mixed and matched his film and TV work over the years.

19th century Ireland: a woman with no husband or family and without work would face a bleak life of poverty and loneliness.

Albert, a shy butler who keeps himself to himself, has been hiding a deep secret for years - ‘he’ is a woman who has had to dress and behave as a man all her life in order to escape this fate.

When handsome painter Hubert Page arrives at the hotel, Albert is inspired to try and escape the false life she has created for herself.

She gathers her nerves to court beautiful, saucy young maid Helen in whom she thinks she’s found a soul-mate - but Helen’s eye is on a new arrival: handsome, bad-boy Joe, the new handy-man!

As Albert dares to hope that she might one day live a normal life, we catch a glimpse of a free-spirited woman who is caught in the wrong time.

Albert Nobbs is released 27th April

FemaleFirst Helen Earnshaw


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