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.
Born: 19 March 1947
Played In
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
Drusilla Sickle
La Bola Negra
Isabelle Durand
Animal Farm
Frieda Pilkington (voice)
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Martha Delacroix
All's Fair
Dina Standish
Glenn Close: A Feminist Force
Self - (archive footage)
Glenn Close, l'art de la transformation
Self
The Summer Book
Grandmother
Hollywood Squares
Self
Back in Action
Ginny
Brothers
Cath Munger
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
Self
The Deliverance
Alberta Jackson
A Look Through His Lens
Self
Heart of Stone
King of Diamonds
Tom Hanks: The Nomad
Self (archive footage)
The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window
The Woman in Seat 2A (uncredited)
Swan Song
Dr. Eve Scott
Boulevard! A Hollywood Story
Self (archive footage)
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
Self
Show of Titles
"Dance a Little Closer" Performer
Four Good Days
Deb
Baba Yaga
Chief (voice)
Hillbilly Elegy
Bonnie "Mamaw" Vance
In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
Cruella de Vil
537 Votes
Self (archive footage)
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
Roy Cohn
Tehran
Marjan Montazeri
Celebrity IOU
Self
The Lavender Scare
Narrator (voice)
Desus & Mero
Self
3Below: Tales of Arcadia
Mother (voice)
Let's Dance
Segment: "Night Shift"
Andrew Lloyd Webber: Tribute to a Superstar
Self
Father Figures
Helen Baxter
Marcians
Self - Interviewee
Sea Oak
Aunt Bernie
The Wilde Wedding
Eve Wilde
Crooked House
Lady Edith de Haviland
What Happened to Monday
Nicolette Cayman
The Wife
Joan Castleman
The Fabulous Allan Carr
Self (archive)
The Girl with All the Gifts
Dr. Caroline Caldwell
Warcraft
Alodi (uncredited)
Anesthesia
Marcia Zarrow
The Great Gilly Hopkins
Nonnie Hopkins
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Self
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
Guardians of the Galaxy
Nova Prime
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Self
5 to 7
Arlene Bloom
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self
Low Down
Gram
Six by Sondheim
Self (archive footage)
Love, Marilyn
Self
Casting By
Self
Finding Your Roots
Self
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
(archive footage)
Albert Nobbs
Albert Nobbs
Discovering Hamlet
Gertrude (archive footage)
Not My Life
Narrator (voice)
Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil
Granny (voice)
My Dog: An Unconditional Love Story
Self
C à vous
Self
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Self - Guest
Peter Matthiessen: No Boundaries
Self - Hostess
Gates of the Arctic
Narrator (voice)
Damages
Patty Hewes
Evening
Mrs. Wittenborn
Gabon The Last Eden
Narrator
The Graham Norton Show
Self
Hoodwinked!
Granny (voice)
Hollywood's Greatest Villains
Self
Nine Lives
Maggie
Heights
Diana
Tarzan II
Kala (voice)
The Chumscrubber
Carrie Johnson
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
The Stepford Wives
Claire Wellington
Strip Search
Karen Moore
Tracking 'The Lion in Winter'
Self
The Lion in Winter
Eleanor of Aquitaine
What I Want My Words to Do to You
Self
In Search of the Jaguar
Narrator
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self
Le Divorce
Olivia Pace
Brush with Fate
Cornelia Engelbrecht
The Safety of Objects
Esther Gold
Sunset Boulevard: A Look Back
Self
The Shield
Captain Monica Rawling
South Pacific
Nellie Forbush
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
Arvella Whipple
Welcome to Hollywood
Glenn Close
Baby
Adult Sophie (Voice)
102 Dalmatians
Cruella de Vil
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
Dr. Elaine Keener (segments "This is Dr. Keener" and "Fantasies about Rebecca")
Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End
Sarah Witting
SNL: The Best of Adam Sandler
Gina (archive footage) (uncredited)
The West Wing
Evelyn Baker Lang
Tarzan in Concert with Phil Collins
Self
Tarzan
Kala (voice)
Cookie's Fortune
Camille Dixon
Family Guy
Glenn Close (voice)
The Big Chill: A Reunion
Self
The Lady with the Torch
Self - Host
Will & Grace
Fannie Lieber
Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Royal Albert Hall Celebration
Self - Performer
In & Out
Glenn Close
The View
Self
Air Force One
Kathryn Bennett
Leute heute
Self
In the Gloaming
Janet
Paradise Road
Adrienne Pargiter
Mars Attacks!
Marsha Dale
101 Dalmatians
Cruella de Vil
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Self - Guest
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
Self
Mary Reilly
Mrs. Farraday
MADtv
Self
Anne Frank Remembered
Diary Readings (voice)
Serving in Silence - The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story
Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer
Inside the Actors Studio
Self
Ellen
Glenn Close
The Paper
Alicia Clark
Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration
Self (segment "Monster in the Mirror")
The House of the Spirits
Ferula Trueba
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest
Skylark
Sarah Witting
Lincoln
Mary Todd Lincoln (voice)
Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall
Self
Pebble Mill
Self
Meeting Venus
Karin Anderson
Hook
Gutless
Sarah, Plain and Tall
Sarah Wheaton
Hamlet
Gertrude
The Divine Garbo
Self - Host / Narrator
Reversal of Fortune
Sunny von Bülow / Narrator
Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music
Self
The Simpsons
Mona Simpson (voice)
An Amazin Era: Revised and Updated
Self
Immediate Family
Linda Spector
Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary
Self
Dangerous Liaisons
Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil
American Experience
Self - Narrator (voice)
This Morning
Self - Guest
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Narrator (voice)
Stones for Ibarra
Sara Everton
Electric Blue 29
(archive footage)
Fatal Attraction
Alexandra "Alex" Forrest
Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?
Self - Narrator
Rabbit Ears - The Emperor and the Nightingale
Narrator (voice)
An Amazin' Era
Self
Jagged Edge
Teddy Barnes
Maxie
Jan / Maxie
The Natural
Iris Gaines
The Stone Boy
Ruth Hillerman
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Miss Jane Porter (voice) (uncredited)
Goldene Kamera
Self
Something About Amelia
Gail Bennett
The Big Chill
Sarah Cooper
The World According to Garp
Jenny Fields
The Elephant Man
Princess Alexandra
Wetten, dass..?
Self
Orphan Train
Jessica
Too Far to Go
Rebecca Kuehn
Please Turn the Page
Self
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
The Rules of the Game
Neighbor
Great Performances
Neighbor
Great Performances
Self - Host
Tony Awards
Self - Host
Tony Awards
Self - Audience Member
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee
Tony Awards
Self - Winner
Tony Awards
Self - Presenter
Tony Awards
Self - Host / Performer / Winner
Tony Awards
Self (archive footage)
Tony Awards
Hillary Clinton
The Oscars
Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Sara Everton
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Sarah Wheaton
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Sarah
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Cornelia Englebrecht
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Presenter/Nominee
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Presenter
Encore
Marie
The Plague Monkeys
Narrator
Sunset Boulevard
Norma Desmond
Standing By
Maud
Maud Oldcastle