
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Glenn Close, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
- Known ForActing
- Born19 March 1947 (age 78)
- Place of BirthGreenwich, Connecticut, USA
Glenn Close

- Known ForActing
- Born19 March 1947 (age 78)
- Place of BirthGreenwich, Connecticut, USA

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
2026

The Summer Book
2025

Back in Action
2025

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
2025

Animal Farm
2025

Glenn Close, l'art de la transformation
2025

The Deliverance
2024

A Look Through His Lens
2024

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
2024

Brothers
2024

Heart of Stone
2023

Tom Hanks: The Nomad
2023

Cruella
2021

Baba Yaga
2021

Boulevard! A Hollywood Story
2021

Four Good Days
2021

Swan Song
2021

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
2021

Show of Titles
2021

537 Votes
2020

Hillbilly Elegy
2020

In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
2020

The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
2020

The Lavender Scare
2019

The Wife
2018

Andrew Lloyd Webber: Tribute to a Superstar
2018

Let's Dance
2018

Father Figures
2017

Crooked House
2017

What Happened to Monday
2017

The Wilde Wedding
2017

Anesthesia
2016

The Girl with All the Gifts
2016

Warcraft
2016

The Great Gilly Hopkins
2015

Guardians of the Galaxy
2014

Low Down
2014

5 to 7
2014

Love, Marilyn
2013

Six by Sondheim
2013

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012

Casting By
2012

Albert Nobbs
2011

Discovering Hamlet
2011

Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil
2011

Not My Life
2011

Touch of Evil
2011

My Dog: An Unconditional Love Story
2009
Peter Matthiessen: No Boundaries
2009

Gates of the Arctic
2008

Evening
2007

Gabon The Last Eden
2007

Hoodwinked!
2005

The Chumscrubber
2005

Heights
2005

Nine Lives
2005

Tarzan II
2005

Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005

Hollywood's Greatest Villains
2005

The Stepford Wives
2004

Strip Search
2004
Tracking 'The Lion in Winter'
2004

Le Divorce
2003

The Lion in Winter
2003

Brush with Fate
2003

What I Want My Words to Do to You
2003
In Search of the Jaguar
2003

The Safety of Objects
2002

Sunset Boulevard: A Look Back
2002

South Pacific
2001

The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
2001

102 Dalmatians
2000

Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
2000

Baby
2000

Welcome to Hollywood
2000

Cookie's Fortune
1999

Tarzan
1999

Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End
1999

SNL: The Best of Adam Sandler
1999

The Big Chill: A Reunion
1999

The Lady with the Torch
1999

Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Royal Albert Hall Celebration
1998

Air Force One
1997

In the Gloaming
1997

Paradise Road
1997

In & Out
1997

Mars Attacks!
1996

101 Dalmatians
1996

Mary Reilly
1996

The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
1996

Serving in Silence - The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story
1995

Anne Frank Remembered
1995

The Paper
1994

The House of the Spirits
1993

Skylark
1993

Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall
1992
Lincoln
1992

Hook
1991

Sarah, Plain and Tall
1991

Meeting Venus
1991

Mel Gibson Goes Back to School
1991

Hamlet
1990

Reversal of Fortune
1990

The Divine Garbo
1990

Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music
1990

Immediate Family
1989

Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary
1989

An Amazin Era: Revised and Updated
1989

Dangerous Liaisons
1988

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
1988

Stones for Ibarra
1988

Electric Blue 29
1988

Fatal Attraction
1987
Rabbit Ears - The Emperor and the Nightingale
1987

An Amazin' Era
1986

Jagged Edge
1985

Maxie
1985

The Natural
1984

The Stone Boy
1984

Something About Amelia
1984

The Big Chill
1983

The World According to Garp
1982

The Elephant Man
1982

Orphan Train
1979

Too Far to Go
1979
