Glenn Close
Biography
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.
Movies (122)
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
2026
The Black Ball
2026
Animal Farm
2026
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
2025
Glenn Close: A Feminist Force
2025
Glenn Close, l'art de la transformation
2025
The Summer Book
2025
Back in Action
2025
Brothers
2024
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
2024
The Deliverance
2024
Heart of Stone
2023
Tom Hanks: The Nomad
2023
Swan Song
2021
Boulevard! A Hollywood Story
2021
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
2021
Show of Titles
2021
Four Good Days
2021
Baba Yaga
2021
Hillbilly Elegy
2020
In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
2020
537 Votes
2020
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
2020
The Lavender Scare
2019
Let's Dance
2018
Andrew Lloyd Webber: Tribute to a Superstar
2018
Father Figures
2017
The Wilde Wedding
2017
Crooked House
2017
What Happened to Monday
2017
The Wife
2017
The Girl with All the Gifts
2016
Warcraft
2016
Anesthesia
2016
The Great Gilly Hopkins
2015
Guardians of the Galaxy
2014
5 to 7
2014
Low Down
2014
Six by Sondheim
2013
Love, Marilyn
2013
Casting By
2012
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
Albert Nobbs
2011
Discovering Hamlet
2011
Not My Life
2011
Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil
2011
My Dog: An Unconditional Love Story
2009
Gates of the Arctic
2008
Evening
2007
Gabon The Last Eden
2007
Hoodwinked!
2005
Hollywood's Greatest Villains
2005
Nine Lives
2005
Heights
2005
Tarzan II
2005
The Chumscrubber
2005
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005
The Stepford Wives
2004
Strip Search
2004
The Lion in Winter
2003
What I Want My Words to Do to You
2003
Le Divorce
2003
Brush with Fate
2003
The Safety of Objects
2002
Sunset Boulevard: A Look Back
2002
South Pacific
2001
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
2001
Welcome to Hollywood
2000
Baby
2000
102 Dalmatians
2000
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
2000
Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End
1999
SNL: The Best of Adam Sandler
1999
Tarzan
1999
Cookie's Fortune
1999
The Big Chill: A Reunion
1999
The Lady with the Torch
1999
Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Royal Albert Hall Celebration
1998
In & Out
1997
Air Force One
1997
In the Gloaming
1997
Paradise Road
1997
Mars Attacks!
1996
101 Dalmatians
1996
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
1996
Mary Reilly
1996
Anne Frank Remembered
1995
Serving in Silence - The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story
1995
The Paper
1994
Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration
1993
The House of the Spirits
1993
Skylark
1993
Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall
1992
Meeting Venus
1991
Hook
1991
Sarah, Plain and Tall
1991
Hamlet
1990
The Divine Garbo
1990
Reversal of Fortune
1990
Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music
1990
An Amazin Era: Revised and Updated
1989
Immediate Family
1989
Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary
1989
Dangerous Liaisons
1988
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
1988
Stones for Ibarra
1988
Electric Blue 29
1988
Fatal Attraction
1987
An Amazin' Era
1986
Jagged Edge
1985
Maxie
1985
The Natural
1984
The Stone Boy
1984
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
1984
Something About Amelia
1984
The Big Chill
1983
The World According to Garp
1982
The Elephant Man
1982
Orphan Train
1979
Too Far to Go
1979
The Rules of the Game
1975
Sunset Boulevard
TV Shows (56)
All's Fair
2025
Hollywood Squares
2025
The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window
2022
Tehran
2020
Celebrity IOU
2020
Desus & Mero
2019
3Below: Tales of Arcadia
2018
Marcians
2017
Sea Oak
2017
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
Finding Your Roots
2012
C à vous
2009
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
2009
Damages
2007
The Graham Norton Show
2007
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
The Shield
2002
The West Wing
1999
Family Guy
1999
Will & Grace
1998
The View
1997
Leute heute
1997
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996
MADtv
1995
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
Ellen
1994
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
The Simpsons
1989
American Experience
1988
This Morning
1988
Wetten, dass..?
1981
Saturday Night Live
1975
Great Performances
1971
Great Performances
1971
Tony Awards
1956
Tony Awards
1956
Tony Awards
1956
Tony Awards
1956
Tony Awards
1956
Tony Awards
1956
Tony Awards
1956
Tony Awards
1956
The Oscars
1953
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Golden Globe Awards
1944
Golden Globe Awards
1944
Golden Globe Awards
1944