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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Glenn Close, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Marsha Dale
Mars Attacks!
Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil
Dangerous Liaisons
Gutless
Hook
Ferula Trueba
The House of the Spirits
Gertrude
Hamlet
Cruella de Vil
102 Dalmatians
Dr. Elaine Keener (segments "This is Dr. Keener" and "Fantasies about Rebecca")
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
Granny (voice)
Hoodwinked!
Alexandra "Alex" Forrest
Fatal Attraction
Iris Gaines
The Natural
Jenny Fields
The World According to Garp
Mrs. Wittenborn
Evening
Esther Gold
The Safety of Objects
Cruella de Vil
101 Dalmatians
Teddy Barnes
Jagged Edge
Sarah Cooper
The Big Chill
Camille Dixon
Cookie's Fortune
Alicia Clark
The Paper
Mrs. Farraday
Mary Reilly
Olivia Pace
Le Divorce
Grandmother
The Summer Book
Kathryn Bennett
Air Force One
Claire Wellington
The Stepford Wives
Self (archive footage)
537 Votes
Carrie Johnson
The Chumscrubber
Diana
Heights
Karen Moore
Strip Search
Kala (voice)
Tarzan
Maggie
Nine Lives
Janet
In the Gloaming
Sarah Wheaton
Sarah, Plain and Tall
Sarah Witting
Skylark
Eleanor of Aquitaine
The Lion in Winter
Sunny von Bülow / Narrator
Reversal of Fortune
Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer
Serving in Silence - The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story
Alberta Jackson
The Deliverance
Nellie Forbush
South Pacific
Albert Nobbs
Albert Nobbs
Cornelia Engelbrecht
Brush with Fate
Sarah Witting
Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End
(archive footage)
Final Cut: Hölgyeim és uraim
Adrienne Pargiter
Paradise Road
Linda Spector
Immediate Family
Jan / Maxie
Maxie
Self
Love, Marilyn
Jessica
Orphan Train
Self
Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall
Rebecca Kuehn
Too Far to Go
Ruth Hillerman
The Stone Boy
Self
My Dog: An Unconditional Love Story
Nova Prime
Guardians of the Galaxy
Karin Anderson
Meeting Venus
Gail Bennett
Something About Amelia
King of Diamonds
Heart of Stone
Self (archive footage)
Tom Hanks: The Nomad
Gertrude (archive footage)
Discovering Hamlet
Gram
Low Down
Kala (voice)
Tarzan II
Arlene Bloom
5 to 7
Princess Alexandra
The Elephant Man
Granny (voice)
Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil
Self
What I Want My Words to Do to You
Adult Sophie (voice)
Baby
Chief (voice)
Baba Yaga
Arvella Whipple
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
Marcia Zarrow
Anesthesia
Narrator (voice)
Not My Life
Narrator
Gabon The Last Eden
Self - Host / Narrator
The Divine Garbo
Self
A Look Through His Lens
Self
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
Ginny
Back in Action
Mary Todd Lincoln (voice)
Lincoln
Joan Castleman
The Wife
Narrator (voice)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Narrator
In Search of the Jaguar
Self
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
Boulevard! A Hollywood Story
Narrator (voice)
Gates of the Arctic
Dr. Caroline Caldwell
The Girl with All the Gifts
Nonnie Hopkins
The Great Gilly Hopkins
The Vamp
Touch of Evil
Marie
Encore
Martha Delacroix
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Helen Baxter
Father Figures
Diary Readings (voice)
Anne Frank Remembered
Gertrude (archive footage)
Mel Gibson Goes Back to School
Gina (archive footage) (uncredited)
SNL: The Best of Adam Sandler
Alodi (uncredited)
Warcraft
Lady Edith de Haviland
Crooked House
Nicolette Cayman
What Happened to Monday
Glenn Close
In & Out
Self
Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary
Glenn Close
Welcome to Hollywood
Eve Wilde
The Wilde Wedding
Self
The Big Chill: A Reunion
Self - Hostess
Peter Matthiessen: No Boundaries
Self (archive footage)
Six by Sondheim
Self
Andrew Lloyd Webber: Tribute to a Superstar
Self - Host
The Lady with the Torch
Self - Performer
Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Royal Albert Hall Celebration
Self
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
Segment: "Night Shift"
Let's Dance
Sara Everton
Stones for Ibarra
Self
Hollywood's Greatest Villains
Self
Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music
Narrator (voice)
The Lavender Scare
Self
Sunset Boulevard: A Look Back
Neighbor
The Rules of the Game
Bonnie "Mamaw" Vance
Hillbilly Elegy
Deb
Four Good Days
(archive footage)
Electric Blue 29
Self
Tracking 'The Lion in Winter'
Cruella de Vil
In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
Dr. Eve Scott
Swan Song
Roy Cohn
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
Cath Munger
Brothers
Self
Casting By
Self
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
Self
An Amazin Era: Revised and Updated
Narrator (voice)
Rabbit Ears - The Emperor and the Nightingale
"Dance a Little Closer" Performer
Show of Titles
Self
An Amazin' Era
Frieda Pilkington (voice)
Animal Farm
Self
Glenn Close, l'art de la transformation
Drusilla Sickle
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
126
Gender
Female
Birthday
1947-03-19
Place of Birth
Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
Also Known As
글렌 클로즈