Glenn Close
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.
Filmography (183 Appearances)
La Bola Negra
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
Encore
Maud
Standing By
Sunset Boulevard
The Plague Monkeys
Animal Farm
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
All's Fair
Glenn Close: A Feminist Force
Glenn Close, l'art de la transformation
The Summer Book
Hollywood Squares
Back in Action
Brothers
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
The Deliverance
A Look Through His Lens
Heart of Stone
Tom Hanks: The Nomad
The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window
Swan Song
Boulevard! A Hollywood Story
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
Show of Titles
Four Good Days
Baba Yaga
Hillbilly Elegy
In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
537 Votes
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
Tehran
Celebrity IOU
The Lavender Scare
Desus & Mero
3Below: Tales of Arcadia
Let's Dance
Andrew Lloyd Webber: Tribute to a Superstar
The Green Fog
Father Figures
Marcians
Sea Oak
The Wilde Wedding
Crooked House
What Happened to Monday
The Wife
The Fabulous Allan Carr
The Girl with All the Gifts
Warcraft
WIRED's Autocomplete Interviews
Anesthesia
The Great Gilly Hopkins
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Guardians of the Galaxy
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
5 to 7
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Low Down
Six by Sondheim
Love, Marilyn
Casting By
Finding Your Roots
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Albert Nobbs
Discovering Hamlet
Not My Life
Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil
My Dog: An Unconditional Love Story
C à vous
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Peter Matthiessen: No Boundaries
Gates of the Arctic
Damages
Evening
Gabon The Last Eden
The Graham Norton Show
Hoodwinked!
Hollywood's Greatest Villains
Nine Lives
Heights
Tarzan II
The Chumscrubber
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
The Stepford Wives
Strip Search
Tracking 'The Lion in Winter'
The Lion in Winter
What I Want My Words to Do to You
In Search of the Jaguar
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Le Divorce
Brush with Fate
The Safety of Objects
Sunset Boulevard: A Look Back
The Shield
South Pacific
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
Welcome to Hollywood
Baby
102 Dalmatians
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End
SNL: The Best of Adam Sandler
The West Wing
Tarzan in Concert with Phil Collins
Tarzan
Cookie's Fortune
Family Guy
The Big Chill: A Reunion
The Lady with the Torch
Will & Grace
Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Royal Albert Hall Celebration
In & Out
The View
Air Force One
Leute heute
In the Gloaming
Paradise Road
Mars Attacks!
101 Dalmatians
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
Mary Reilly
MADtv
Anne Frank Remembered
Serving in Silence - The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story
Inside the Actors Studio
Ellen
The Paper
Sesame Street's 25th Birthday: A Musical Celebration
The House of the Spirits
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Skylark
Lincoln
Blast 'Em
Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall
Pebble Mill
Meeting Venus
Hook
Sarah, Plain and Tall
Hamlet
The Divine Garbo
Reversal of Fortune
Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music
The Simpsons
An Amazin Era: Revised and Updated
Immediate Family
Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary
Dangerous Liaisons
American Experience
This Morning
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Stones for Ibarra
Electric Blue 29
Fatal Attraction
Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?
Rabbit Ears - The Emperor and the Nightingale
An Amazin' Era
Jagged Edge
Maxie
The Natural
The Stone Boy
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Goldene Kamera
Something About Amelia
The Big Chill
The World According to Garp
The Elephant Man
Wetten, dass..?
Orphan Train
Too Far to Go
Please Turn the Page
Saturday Night Live
The Rules of the Game
Great Performances
Tony Awards
The Oscars
Hallmark Hall of Fame