Acting
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 with Glenn Close
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
2025
Tarzan
1999
Hoodwinked!
2005
Air Force One
1997
Guardians of the Galaxy
2014
Hook
1991
101 Dalmatians
1996
Back in Action
2025
Warcraft
2016
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
2026
Animal Farm
2026
What Happened to Monday
2017
Mars Attacks!
1996
Fatal Attraction
1987
La Bola Negra
2026
Heart of Stone
2023
Dangerous Liaisons
1988
The Girl with All the Gifts
2016
102 Dalmatians
2000
Tarzan II
2005
The House of the Spirits
1993
The Natural
1984
The Stepford Wives
2004
Crooked House
2017
Hillbilly Elegy
2020
Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil
2011
The Deliverance
2024
The Big Chill
1983
Brothers
2024
In & Out
1997
Swan Song
2021
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
1984
Father Figures
2017
The Wife
2017
Anesthesia
2016
The Wilde Wedding
2017
Albert Nobbs
2011
Jagged Edge
1985
The Paper
1994
Nine Lives
2005
Paradise Road
1997
Hamlet
1990
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
2024
Le Divorce
2003
Four Good Days
2021
Love, Marilyn
2013
Reversal of Fortune
1990
Mary Reilly
1996
Show of Titles
2021
The Summer Book
2025
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005
Low Down
2014
5 to 7
2014
Welcome to Hollywood
2000
The Great Gilly Hopkins
2015
The Chumscrubber
2005
Sunset Boulevard
The Stone Boy
1984
The World According to Garp
1982
Six by Sondheim
2013
Let's Dance
2018
537 Votes
2020
Casting By
2012
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
South Pacific
2001
Evening
2007
Cookie's Fortune
1999
The Safety of Objects
2002
The Lion in Winter
2003
Strip Search
2004
Baba Yaga
2021
Immediate Family
1989
Heights
2005
Meeting Venus
1991
SNL: The Best of Adam Sandler
1999
Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary
1989
Tarzan in Concert with Phil Collins
1999
Something About Amelia
1984
The Lavender Scare
2019
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
2000
In the Gloaming
1997
Lincoln
1992
Hollywood's Greatest Villains
2005
Brush with Fate
2003
Tom Hanks: The Nomad
2023
Anne Frank Remembered
1995
Sarah, Plain and Tall
1991
Encore
Serving in Silence - The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story
1995
Too Far to Go
1979
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
2021
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
1996
Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music
1990
Blast 'Em
1992
The Fabulous Allan Carr
2017
Not My Life
2011
Orphan Train
1979
Baby
2000
Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration
1993
Discovering Hamlet
2011
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
2001
Boulevard! A Hollywood Story
2021
Skylark
1993
Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End
1999
Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Royal Albert Hall Celebration
1998
Stones for Ibarra
1988
In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
2020
The Big Chill: A Reunion
1999
The Elephant Man
1982
Gates of the Arctic
2008
A Look Through His Lens
2024
My Dog: An Unconditional Love Story
2009
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
2020
Sunset Boulevard: A Look Back
2002
Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall
1992
The Rules of the Game
1975
Maxie
1985
An Amazin' Era
1986
Tracking 'The Lion in Winter'
2004
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
1988
The Plague Monkeys
What I Want My Words to Do to You
2003
Electric Blue 29
1988
Andrew Lloyd Webber: Tribute to a Superstar
2018
An Amazin Era: Revised and Updated
1989
Gabon The Last Eden
2007
Glenn Close: A Feminist Force
2025
Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?
1987
The Divine Garbo
1990
The Lady with the Torch
1999
Glenn Close, l'art de la transformation
2025
In Search of the Jaguar
2003
Rabbit Ears - The Emperor and the Nightingale
1987
Peter Matthiessen: No Boundaries
2009
TV Shows with Glenn Close
Family Guy
1999
The Simpsons
1989
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The West Wing
1999
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Saturday Night Live
1975
The Shield
2002
The View
1997
Golden Globe Awards
1944
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
2014
American Experience
1988
Damages
2007
Great Performances
1971
Will & Grace
1998
Wetten, dass..?
1981
Tony Awards
1956
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
Leute heute
1997
Ellen
1994
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
Desus & Mero
2019
The Oscars
1953
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
2009
Tehran
2020
Marcians
2017
C à vous
2009
Pebble Mill
1991
Goldene Kamera
1984
Finding Your Roots
2012
3Below: Tales of Arcadia
2018
Hollywood Squares
2025
All's Fair
2025
Celebrity IOU
2020
The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window
2022
Please Turn the Page
1977
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
MADtv
1995
This Morning
1988
Sea Oak
2017
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
Standing By
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