Glenn Close
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.
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Sunset Boulevard
as Norma Desmond
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
as Drusilla Sickle
La bola negra
as Isabelle Durand
Animal Farm
as Frieda Pilkington (voice)
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
as Martha Delacroix
All's Fair
as Dina Standish
Glenn Close: A Feminist Force
as Self - (archive footage)
Glenn Close, l'art de la transformation
as Self
The Summer Book
as Grandmother
Hollywood Squares
as Self
Back in Action
as Ginny
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
as Self
The Deliverance
as Alberta Jackson
Heart of Stone
as King of Diamonds
Tom Hanks: The Nomad
as Self (archive footage)
The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window
as The Woman in Seat 2A (uncredited)
Swan Song
as Dr. Eve Scott
Boulevard! A Hollywood Story
as Self (archive footage)
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
as Self
Show of Titles
as "Dance a Little Closer" Performer
Four Good Days
as Deb
Baba Yaga
as Chief (voice)
Hillbilly Elegy
as Mamaw
In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
as Cruella de Vil
537 Votes
as Self (archive footage)
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
as Roy Cohn
Tehran
as Marjan Montazeri
Celebrity IOU
as Self
The Lavender Scare
as Narrator (voice)
Desus & Mero
as Self
3Below: Tales of Arcadia
as Mother (voice)
Let's Dance
as Segment: "Night Shift"
Andrew Lloyd Webber: Tribute to a Superstar
as Self
The Green Fog
as Unknown
Father Figures
as Helen Baxter
Marcians
as Self - Interviewee
Sea Oak
as Aunt Bernie
The Wilde Wedding
as Eve Wilde
Crooked House
as Lady Edith de Haviland
What Happened to Monday
as Nicolette Cayman
The Wife
as Joan Castleman
The Fabulous Allan Carr
as Self (archive footage)
The Girl with All the Gifts
as Dr. Caroline Caldwell
Warcraft
as Alodi (uncredited)
Anesthesia
as Marcia Zarrow
The Great Gilly Hopkins
as Nonnie Hopkins
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self - Guest
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
as Self
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
as Self
5 to 7
as Arlene Bloom
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
Low Down
as Gram
Six by Sondheim
as Self (archive footage)
Love, Marilyn
as Self
Casting By
as Self
Finding Your Roots
as Self
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)
Albert Nobbs
as Albert Nobbs
Discovering Hamlet
as Gertrude (archive footage)
Not My Life
as Narrator (voice)
Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil
as Granny (voice)
My Dog: An Unconditional Love Story
as Self
C à vous
as Self
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
as Self - Guest
Gates of the Arctic
as Narrator (voice)
Damages
as Patty Hewes
Evening
as Mrs. Wittenborn
Gabon The Last Eden
as Narrator
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
Hoodwinked!
as Granny (voice)
Hollywood's Greatest Villains
as Self
Nine Lives
as Maggie
Heights
as Diana
Tarzan II
as Kala (voice)
The Chumscrubber
as Carrie Johnson
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
The Stepford Wives
as Claire Wellington
Strip Search
as Karen Moore
The Lion in Winter
as Eleanor of Aquitaine
What I Want My Words to Do to You
as Self
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
as Self
Le Divorce
as Olivia Pace
Brush with Fate
as Cornelia Engelbrecht
The Safety of Objects
as Esther Gold
Sunset Boulevard: A Look Back
as Self
The Shield
as Captain Monica Rawling
South Pacific
as Nellie Forbush
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
as Arvella Whipple
Welcome to Hollywood
as Glenn Close
102 Dalmatians
as Cruella de Vil
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
as Dr. Elaine Keener (segments "This is Dr. Keener" and "Fantasies about Rebecca")
Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End
as Sarah Witting
SNL: The Best of Adam Sandler
as Gina (archive footage) (uncredited)
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
as Self
The West Wing
as Evelyn Baker Lang
Tarzan in Concert with Phil Collins
as Self
Tarzan
as Kala (voice)
Cookie's Fortune
as Camille Dixon
Family Guy
as Glenn Close (voice)
The Big Chill: A Reunion
as Self
The Lady with the Torch
as Self - Host
Will & Grace
as Fannie Lieber
Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Royal Albert Hall Celebration
as Self - Performer
In & Out
as Glenn Close (uncredited)
The View
as Self
Air Force One
as Kathryn Bennett
Leute heute
as Self
In the Gloaming
as Janet
Paradise Road
as Adrienne Pargiter
Mars Attacks!
as Marsha Dale
101 Dalmatians
as Cruella de Vil
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
as Self - Guest
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
as Self
Mary Reilly
as Mrs. Farraday
MADtv
as Self
Anne Frank Remembered
as Diary Readings (voice)
Serving in Silence - The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story
as Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer
Inside the Actors Studio
as Self
Ellen
as Glenn Close
The Paper
as Alicia Clark
Sesame Street's 25th Birthday: A Musical Celebration
as Self (segment "Monster in the Mirror")
The House of the Spirits
as Ferula Trueba
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
Skylark
as Sarah Witting
Blast 'Em
as Self (uncredited)
Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall
as Self
Meeting Venus
as Karin Anderson
Hook
as Gutless
Sarah, Plain and Tall
as Sarah Wheaton
Hamlet
as Gertrude
The Divine Garbo
as Self - Host / Narrator
Reversal of Fortune
as Sunny von Bülow / Narrator
Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music
as Self
The Simpsons
as Mona Simpson (voice)
An Amazin Era: Revised and Updated
as Self
Immediate Family
as Linda Spector
Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary
as Self
Dangerous Liaisons
as Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil
American Experience
as Self - Narrator (voice)
This Morning
as Self - Guest
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
as Narrator (voice)
Stones for Ibarra
as Sara Everton
Electric Blue 29
as (archive footage)
Fatal Attraction
as Alexandra "Alex" Forrest
An Amazin' Era
as Self
Jagged Edge
as Teddy Barnes
Maxie
as Jan / Maxie
The Natural
as Iris Gaines
The Stone Boy
as Ruth Hillerman
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
as Miss Jane Porter (voice) (uncredited)
Something About Amelia
as Gail Bennett
The Big Chill
as Sarah Cooper
The World According to Garp
as Jenny Fields
The Elephant Man
as Princess Alexandra
Wetten, dass..?
as Self
Orphan Train
as Jessica
Too Far to Go
as Rebecca Kuehn
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
The Rules of the Game
as Neighbor
Great Performances
as Neighbor
Great Performances
as Self - Host
Tony Awards
as Self - Host
Tony Awards
as Self - Audience Member
Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee
Tony Awards
as Self - Winner
Tony Awards
as Self - Presenter
Tony Awards
as Self - Host / Performer / Winner
Tony Awards
as Self (archive footage)
Tony Awards
as Hillary Clinton
The Oscars
as Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Sara Everton
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Sarah Wheaton
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Sarah
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Cornelia Englebrecht
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Presenter/Nominee
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Presenter