Glenn Close as its two sequels. She also impersonated the title subject of the fact-based made-for-TV movie "Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story" in 1995, for which she won her first Emmy. Close has also provided the voice of Mona Simpson, from "The Simpsons," since 1995. "Entertainment Weekly" named Close one of the 16 best "Simpsons" guest stars. In 2001 she starred in a production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic musical "South Pacific" as Nellie Forbush on ABC. Close guest-starred on "Will and Grace" in 2002, portraying a satirical version of Annie Leibovitz, earning her an Emmy nomination for Guest Actress
Tales of the South Pacific "Our Heroine", about Nellie Forbush and Emile de Becque. Characters from other stories, such as Bill Harbison, Bus Adams, and Luther Billis, play minor or supporting roles. Some of the characters from the stories were merged and simplified to serve the format of the musical. For example, the coastwatcher in the musical is an American Marine (Lt. Cable) assisted by an expatriate French plantation owner (Emile de Becque). In Michener's short story "The Cave" the coastwatcher is an English expatriate assisted by native islanders, and is a disembodied voice on a short-wave radio identifying himself only as "The Remittance Man".