Glenn Close

Acting · 3.6 popularity

Age

Movies

135

Born: March 19, 1947
From: Greenwich, Connecticut, USA

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.

Works

135 films

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

20257.2

Guardians of the Galaxy

20147.9

Tarzan

19997.4

Mars Attacks!

19966.4

Hook

19916.8

101 Dalmatians

19965.9

Warcraft

20166.4

Air Force One

19976.5

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping

2026

Animal Farm

20266.4

Back in Action

20256.4

Hoodwinked!

20056.3

Swan Song

20217.1

What Happened to Monday

20177.1

Fatal Attraction

19876.8

Tarzan II

20056.1

102 Dalmatians

20005.5

The Girl with All the Gifts

20166.6

Heart of Stone

20236.7

The Wife

20177.1

Dangerous Liaisons

19887.2

The Natural

19846.9

The Paper

19946.6

The Stepford Wives

20045.7

Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil

20115.2

In & Out

19976.5

The House of the Spirits

19936.9

Brothers

20245.9

Hillbilly Elegy

20206.7

The Deliverance

20246.0

Crooked House

20176.4

La Bola Negra

2026

The Big Chill

19836.8

The Wilde Wedding

20175.1

Father Figures

20175.8

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

19846.4

Le Divorce

20034.9

5 to 7

20147.1

Jagged Edge

19856.3

Welcome to Hollywood

20004.2

Nine Lives

20056.1

Albert Nobbs

20116.3

Mary Reilly

19965.8

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

20127.5

Hamlet

19906.6

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

20248.1

The Great Gilly Hopkins

20156.6

Reversal of Fortune

19906.6

The World According to Garp

19826.7

Nos Bastidores de Hollywood

200510.0

Four Good Days

20216.8

Anesthesia

20165.7

Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration

19937.0

Six by Sondheim

20137.1

Show of Titles

2021

537 Votes

20207.1

In the Gloaming

19976.0

Evening

20075.8

Paradise Road

19976.4

The Summer Book

20257.3

Anne Frank Remembered

19957.6

Low Down

20145.5

SNL: The Best of Adam Sandler

19996.9

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age

2021

Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her

20005.8

Hollywood's Greatest Villains

20059.5

Love, Marilyn

20136.6

The Lion in Winter

20035.9

Cookie's Fortune

19996.4

Strip Search

20046.2

Discovering Hamlet

20117.5

The Chumscrubber

20056.5

The Stone Boy

19847.0

Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary

19897.8

Boulevard! A Hollywood Story

20216.2

Heights

20056.3

The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful

199610.0

In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover

20207.1

Blast 'Em

19927.0

The Fabulous Allan Carr

20174.5

Encore

2026

What I Want My Words to Do to You

20037.8

Something About Amelia

19845.6

A Look Through His Lens

2024

Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End

19997.5

Casting By

20126.9

The Safety of Objects

20026.6

Baba Yaga

2021

Let's Dance

20186.1

Immediate Family

19895.9

Sunset Boulevard: A Look Back

20029.0

Serving in Silence - The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story

19955.7

The Ballad of Lucy Whipple

20015.6

The Lavender Scare

20195.6

South Pacific

20015.2

Andrew Lloyd Webber: Tribute to a Superstar

20186.0

Sarah, Plain and Tall

19917.1

Lincoln

19927.3

Tom Hanks: The Nomad

20235.5

Tarzan in Concert with Phil Collins

1999

Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Royal Albert Hall Celebration

19987.6

The Green Fog

20186.1

The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America

202010.0

Skylark

19937.0

Glenn Close: A Feminist Force

2025

Tracking 'The Lion in Winter'

2004

The Big Chill: A Reunion

19996.3

My Dog: An Unconditional Love Story

20098.5

The Rules of the Game

19758.0

Brush with Fate

20036.0

Stones for Ibarra

19889.0

Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall

19929.0

Maxie

19855.0

Too Far to Go

19793.5

Peter Matthiessen: No Boundaries

2009

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

19886.0

An Amazin Era: Revised and Updated

1989

Gabon The Last Eden

20078.0

Sunset Boulevard

2026

Orphan Train

19795.9

The Plague Monkeys

2026

The Lady with the Torch

199910.0

Glenn Close, l'art de la transformation

20256.3

Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?

1987

Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music

199010.0

Baby

20008.0

Electric Blue 29

1988

In Search of the Jaguar

20038.0

Gates of the Arctic

2008

The Elephant Man

19825.9

Not My Life

2011

The Divine Garbo

1990

Rabbit Ears - The Emperor and the Nightingale

1987

Meeting Venus

19915.9

An Amazin' Era

1986