Glenn Close

Glenn Close

Glenda Veronica Close (born March 19, 1947) is an American actress. In a career spanning over five decades on screen and stage, she has received numerous accolades, including three Primetime Emmy Awards, three Tony Awards and three Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for eight Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, and three Grammy Awards. She was named by Time as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2019. Close received eight Academy Award nominations for playing a feminist mother in The World According to Garp (1982), a baby boomer in The Big Chill (1983), a love interest in The Natural (1984), a psychotic ex-lover in Fatal Attraction (1987), a cunning aristocrat in Dangerous Liaisons (1988), an English butler in Albert Nobbs (2011), a troubled wife in The Wife (2017), and an eccentric grandmother in Hillbilly Elegy (2020). Her other films include Reversal of Fortune (1990), The Paper (1994), and Mars Attacks! (1996), Air Force One (1997), and Guardians of the Galaxy (2014). Close also portrayed Cruella de Vil in 101 Dalmatians (1996) and its 2000 sequel and voiced Kala in Tarzan (1999). In television, Close received her first Primetime Emmy Award nomination for her role in the film Something About Amelia (1984) and later won three—Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for portraying Margarethe Cammermeyer in the NBC film Serving in Silence (1995) and Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series twice consecutively for playing Patty Hewes in Damages (2007–2012). On stage, Close made her Broadway debut in the play Love for Love (1974). She later won three Tony Awards, two for Best Actress in a Play for her roles in the plays The Real Thing (1983) and Death and the Maiden (1992), and one for Best Actress in a Musical for the musical Sunset Boulevard (1995). She was Tony-nominated for Barnum (1980). She returned to the Broadway stage in a 2014 revival of A Delicate Balance. In 2016, she returned to Sunset Boulevard on the West End stage, earning a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical nomination. Close is the president of Trillium Productions and co-founder of the website FetchDog. She has made political donations in support of Democratic politicians. She is vocal on issues such as women's rights, same-sex marriage, and mental health. Married three times, she has one daughter, Annie Starke, from her relationship with producer John Starke. Description above from the Wikipedia article Glenn Close, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

The Summer Book
2025
Grandmother
Back in Action
2025
Ginny
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
2025
Martha Delacroix
The Deliverance
2024
Alberta Jackson
A Look Through His Lens
2024
Self
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
2024
Self
Heart of Stone
2023
King of Diamonds
Tom Hanks: The Nomad
2023
Self (archive footage)
Cruella
2021
Producer
Baba Yaga
2021
Chief (voice)
Boulevard! A Hollywood Story
2021
Self (archive footage)
537 Votes
2020
Self (archive footage)
The Wife
2018
Joan Castleman
The Wilde Wedding
2017
Executive Producer
Father Figures
2017
Helen Baxter
Crooked House
2017
Lady Edith de Haviland
What Happened to Monday
2017
Nicolette Cayman
Anesthesia
2016
Marcia Zarrow
The Girl with All the Gifts
2016
Dr. Caroline Caldwell
Warcraft
2016
Alodi (uncredited)
The Great Gilly Hopkins
2015
Nonnie Hopkins
Guardians of the Galaxy
2014
Nova Prime
Low Down
2014
Gram
5 to 7
2014
Arlene Bloom
Love, Marilyn
2013
Self
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
(archive footage)
Albert Nobbs
2011
Screenplay
Discovering Hamlet
2011
Gertrude (archive footage)
Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil
2011
Granny (voice)
Not My Life
2011
Narrator (voice)
Touch of Evil
2011
The Vamp
My Dog: An Unconditional Love Story
2009
Self
Gates of the Arctic
2008
Narrator (voice)
Evening
2007
Mrs. Wittenborn
Gabon The Last Eden
2007
Narrator
Hoodwinked!
2005
Granny (voice)
The Chumscrubber
2005
Carrie Johnson
Heights
2005
Diana
Nine Lives
2005
Maggie
Tarzan II
2005
Kala (voice)
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005
Self
The Stepford Wives
2004
Claire Wellington
Strip Search
2004
Karen Moore
Le Divorce
2003
Olivia Pace
The Lion in Winter
2003
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Brush with Fate
2003
Cornelia Engelbrecht
What I Want My Words to Do to You
2003
Self
The Safety of Objects
2002
Esther Gold
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
2001
Executive Producer
South Pacific
2001
Executive Producer
Baby
2000
Executive Producer
102 Dalmatians
2000
Cruella de Vil
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
2000
Dr. Elaine Keener (segments "This is Dr. Keener" and "Fantasies about Rebecca")
Cookie's Fortune
1999
Camille Dixon
Tarzan
1999
Kala (voice)
Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End
1999
Sarah Witting
SNL: The Best of Adam Sandler
1999
Gina (archive footage) (uncredited)
Air Force One
1997
Kathryn Bennett
In the Gloaming
1997
Janet
Paradise Road
1997
Adrienne Pargiter
In & Out
1997
Glenn Close
Mars Attacks!
1996
Marsha Dale
101 Dalmatians
1996
Cruella de Vil
Mary Reilly
1996
Mrs. Farraday
Journey
1995
Executive Producer
Serving in Silence - The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story
1995
Executive Producer
Anne Frank Remembered
1995
Diary Readings (voice)
The Paper
1994
Alicia Clark
Skylark
1993
Executive Producer
The House of the Spirits
1993
Ferula Trueba
Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall
1992
Self
Sarah, Plain and Tall
1991
Executive Producer
Hook
1991
Gutless
Meeting Venus
1991
Karin Anderson
Mel Gibson Goes Back to School
1991
Gertrude (archive footage)
Hamlet
1990
Gertrude
Reversal of Fortune
1990
Sunny von Bülow / Narrator
The Divine Garbo
1990
Self - Host / Narrator
Immediate Family
1989
Linda Spector
Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary
1989
Self
Dangerous Liaisons
1988
Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
1988
Narrator (voice)
Fatal Attraction
1987
Alexandra "Alex" Forrest
Jagged Edge
1985
Teddy Barnes
Maxie
1985
Jan / Maxie
The Natural
1984
Iris Gaines
The Stone Boy
1984
Ruth Hillerman
Something About Amelia
1984
Gail Bennett
The Big Chill
1983
Sarah Cooper
The World According to Garp
1982
Jenny Fields
The Elephant Man
1982
Princess Alexandra
Orphan Train
1979
Jessica
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
2026
Drusilla Sickle
Animal Farm
2025
Frieda Pilkington (voice)
Glenn Close, l'art de la transformation
2025
Self
Brothers
2024
Cath Munger
Four Good Days
2021
Deb
Swan Song
2021
Dr. Eve Scott
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
2021
Self
Show of Titles
2021
"Dance a Little Closer" Performer
Hillbilly Elegy
2020
Bonnie "Mamaw" Vance
In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
2020
Cruella de Vil
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
2020
Roy Cohn
The Lavender Scare
2019
Narrator (voice)
Andrew Lloyd Webber: Tribute to a Superstar
2018
Self
Let's Dance
2018
Segment: "Night Shift"
Six by Sondheim
2013
Self (archive footage)
Casting By
2012
Self
Hollywood's Greatest Villains
2005
Self
Sunset Boulevard: A Look Back
2002
Self
Welcome to Hollywood
2000
Glenn Close
The Big Chill: A Reunion
1999
Self
The Lady with the Torch
1999
Self - Host
Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Royal Albert Hall Celebration
1998
Self - Performer
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
1996
Self
Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music
1990
Self
An Amazin Era: Revised and Updated
1989
Self
Stones for Ibarra
1988
Sara Everton
Electric Blue 29
1988
(archive footage)
An Amazin' Era
1986
Self
Too Far to Go
1979
Rebecca Kuehn
The Rules of the Game
1975
Neighbor