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.
Mars Attacks!
(Marsha Dale)
Dangerous Liaisons
(Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil)
Hook
(Gutless)
The House of the Spirits
(Ferula Trueba)
Hamlet
(Gertrude)
102 Dalmatians
(Cruella de Vil)
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
(Dr. Elaine Keener (segments "This is Dr. Keener" and "Fantasies about Rebecca"))
Hoodwinked!
(Granny (voice))
Fatal Attraction
(Alexandra "Alex" Forrest)
The Natural
(Iris Gaines)
The World According to Garp
(Jenny Fields)
Evening
(Mrs. Wittenborn)
The Safety of Objects
(Esther Gold)
101 Dalmatians
(Cruella de Vil)
Jagged Edge
(Teddy Barnes)
The Big Chill
(Sarah Cooper)
Cookie's Fortune
(Camille Dixon)
The Paper
(Alicia Clark)
Mary Reilly
(Mrs. Farraday)
Le Divorce
(Olivia Pace)
The Summer Book
(Grandmother)
Air Force One
(Kathryn Bennett)
The Stepford Wives
(Claire Wellington)
537 Votes
(Self (archive footage))
The Chumscrubber
(Carrie Johnson)
Heights
(Diana)
Strip Search
(Karen Moore)
Tarzan
(Kala (voice))
Nine Lives
(Maggie)
In the Gloaming
(Janet)
Sarah, Plain and Tall
(Sarah Wheaton)
Skylark
(Sarah Witting)
The Lion in Winter
(Eleanor of Aquitaine)
Reversal of Fortune
(Sunny von Bülow / Narrator)
Serving in Silence - The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story
(Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer)
The Deliverance
(Alberta Jackson)
South Pacific
(Nellie Forbush)
Albert Nobbs
(Albert Nobbs)
Brush with Fate
(Cornelia Engelbrecht)
Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End
(Sarah Witting)
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
((archive footage))
Paradise Road
(Adrienne Pargiter)
Immediate Family
(Linda Spector)
Maxie
(Jan / Maxie)
Love, Marilyn
(Self)
Orphan Train
(Jessica)
Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall
(Self)
Too Far to Go
(Rebecca Kuehn)
The Stone Boy
(Ruth Hillerman)
My Dog: An Unconditional Love Story
(Self)
Guardians of the Galaxy
(Nova Prime)
Meeting Venus
(Karin Anderson)
Something About Amelia
(Gail Bennett)
Heart of Stone
(King of Diamonds)
Tom Hanks: The Nomad
(Self (archive footage))
Discovering Hamlet
(Gertrude (archive footage))
Low Down
(Gram)
Tarzan II
(Kala (voice))
5 to 7
(Arlene Bloom)
The Elephant Man
(Princess Alexandra)
Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil
(Granny (voice))
What I Want My Words to Do to You
(Self)
Baby
(Adult Sophie (voice))
Baba Yaga
(Chief (voice))
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
(Arvella Whipple)
Anesthesia
(Marcia Zarrow)
Not My Life
(Narrator (voice))
Gabon The Last Eden
(Narrator)
The Divine Garbo
(Self - Host / Narrator)
A Look Through His Lens
(Self)
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
(Self)
Back in Action
(Ginny)
Lincoln
(Mary Todd Lincoln (voice))
The Wife
(Joan Castleman)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
(Narrator (voice))
In Search of the Jaguar
(Narrator)
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
(Self (archive footage))
Boulevard! A Hollywood Story
(Self (archive footage))
Gates of the Arctic
(Narrator (voice))
The Girl with All the Gifts
(Dr. Caroline Caldwell)
The Great Gilly Hopkins
(Nonnie Hopkins)
Encore
(Marie)
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
(Martha Delacroix)
Father Figures
(Helen Baxter)
Anne Frank Remembered
(Diary Readings (voice))
SNL: The Best of Adam Sandler
(Gina (archive footage) (uncredited))
Warcraft
(Alodi (uncredited))
Crooked House
(Lady Edith de Haviland)
What Happened to Monday
(Nicolette Cayman)
In & Out
(Glenn Close)
Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary
(Self)
Welcome to Hollywood
(Glenn Close)
The Wilde Wedding
(Eve Wilde)
The Big Chill: A Reunion
(Self)
Peter Matthiessen: No Boundaries
(Self - Hostess)
Six by Sondheim
(Self (archive footage))
Andrew Lloyd Webber: Tribute to a Superstar
(Self)
The Lady with the Torch
(Self - Host)
Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Royal Albert Hall Celebration
(Self - Performer)
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
(Self)
Let's Dance
(Segment: "Night Shift")
Stones for Ibarra
(Sara Everton)
Hollywood's Greatest Villains
(Self)
Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music
(Self)
The Lavender Scare
(Narrator (voice))
Sunset Boulevard: A Look Back
(Self)
The Rules of the Game
(Neighbor)
Hillbilly Elegy
(Bonnie "Mamaw" Vance)
Four Good Days
(Deb)
Electric Blue 29
((archive footage))
Tracking 'The Lion in Winter'
(Self)
In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
(Cruella de Vil)
Swan Song
(Dr. Eve Scott)
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
(Roy Cohn)
Brothers
(Cath Munger)
Casting By
(Self)
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
(Self)
An Amazin Era: Revised and Updated
(Self)
Rabbit Ears - The Emperor and the Nightingale
(Narrator (voice))
Show of Titles
("Dance a Little Closer" Performer)
An Amazin' Era
(Self)
Animal Farm
(Frieda Pilkington (voice))
Glenn Close, l'art de la transformation
(Self)
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
(Drusilla Sickle)
The Plague Monkeys
(Narrator)
Sunset Boulevard
(Norma Desmond)
The Black Ball
Glenn Close: A Feminist Force
(Self - (archive footage))
This Morning
(Self - Guest)
Inside the Actors Studio
(Self)
The Simpsons
(Mona Simpson (voice))
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
(Self)
The Shield
(Captain Monica Rawling)
The View
(Self)
Finding Your Roots
(Self)
C à vous
(Self)
Will & Grace
(Fannie Lieber)
MADtv
(Self)
Hallmark Hall of Fame
(Sara Everton)
Damages
(Patty Hewes)
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
(Self - Guest)
Desus & Mero
(Self)
Pebble Mill
(Self)
The Oscars
(Self)
Saturday Night Live
(Self - Host)
The West Wing
(Evelyn Baker Lang)
Tony Awards
(Self - Presenter)
Wetten, dass..?
(Self)
Celebrity IOU
(Self)
Tony Awards
(Self (archive footage))
The Graham Norton Show
(Self)
Tehran
(Marjan Montazeri)
The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window
(The Woman in Seat 2A (uncredited))
American Experience
(Self - Narrator (voice))
Sea Oak
(Aunt Bernie)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
(Self)
Tony Awards
(Self - Host/Performer/Winner)
Tony Awards
(Self - Audience Member)
Leute heute
(Self)
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
(Self)
Hallmark Hall of Fame
(Sarah Wheaton)
Hallmark Hall of Fame
(Sarah)
Hallmark Hall of Fame
(Cornelia Englebrecht)
Late Night with Seth Meyers
(Self)
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
(Self - Guest)
Ellen
(Glenn Close)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
(Self)
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
(Self)
Goldene Kamera
(Self)
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
(Self)
3Below: Tales of Arcadia
(Mother (voice))
Tony Awards
(Self - Host)
Standing By
Family Guy
(Glenn Close (voice))
Please Turn the Page
(Self)
All's Fair
(Dina Standish)
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
(Self - Guest)
Golden Globe Awards
(Self - Nominee)
Great Performances
(Neighbor)
Great Performances
(Self - Host)
Tony Awards
(Hillary Clinton)
Tony Awards
(Self - Nominee)
Marcians
(Self - Interviewee)
Golden Globe Awards
(Self - Presenter/Nominee)
Golden Globe Awards
(Self - Presenter)
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
(Self - Guest)
Tony Awards
(Self - Winner)
Tony Awards
(Self - Host/Winner)
Maud
(Maud Oldcastle)
Albert Nobbs
(Screenplay)
Albert Nobbs
(Producer)
Cruella
(Producer)
Baby
(Executive Producer)
Sarah, Plain and Tall
(Executive Producer)
Journey
(Executive Producer)
Skylark
(Executive Producer)
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
(Executive Producer)
South Pacific
(Executive Producer)
Serving in Silence - The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story
(Executive Producer)
The Wilde Wedding
(Executive Producer)
Sunset Boulevard
(Producer)
Sea Oak
(Producer)
All's Fair
(Executive Producer)
Maud
(Executive Producer)