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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5.8 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
8.0 Simpsonid
1989
5.0 Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
7.4 Perepea
1999
5.1 Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
6.1 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
8.3 Presidendi Meeskond
1999
Tony Awards
1956
Tony Awards
1956
Tony Awards
1956
Tony Awards
1956
Tony Awards
1956
Filmograafia
- 2025Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (Martha Delacroix)
- 2025Suveraamat (Grandmother)
- 2025Back in Action (Ginny)
- 2024Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (Self)
- 2024The Deliverance (Alberta Jackson)
- 2024A Look Through His Lens (Self)
- 2023Heart of Stone (King of Diamonds)
- 2023Tom Hanks: The Nomad (Self (archive footage))
- 2021Boulevard! A Hollywood Story (Self (archive footage))
- 2021Baba Yaga (Chief (voice))
- 2020537 Votes (Self (archive footage))
- 2018Andrew Lloyd Webber: Tribute to a Superstar (Self)
- 2017Father Figures (Helen Baxter)
- 2017The Wilde Wedding (Eve Wilde)
- 2017Crooked House (Lady Edith de Haviland)
- 2017What Happened to Monday (Nicolette Cayman)
- 2017The Wife (Joan Castleman)
- 2016The Girl with All the Gifts (Dr. Caroline Caldwell)
- 2016Warcraft: Algus (Alodi (uncredited))
- 2016Anesthesia (Marcia Zarrow)
- 2015The Great Gilly Hopkins (Nonnie Hopkins)
- 2014Galaktika valvurid (Nova Prime)
- 20145 to 7 (Arlene Bloom)
- 2014Low Down (Gram)
- 2013Six by Sondheim (Self (archive footage))
- 2013Love, Marilyn (Self)
- 2012Final Cut: Hölgyeim és uraim ((archive footage))
- 2011Albert Nobbs (Albert Nobbs)
- 2011Discovering Hamlet (Gertrude (archive footage))
- 2011Not My Life (Narrator (voice))
- 2011Punamütsike kurjuse vastu (Granny (voice))
- 2009My Dog: An Unconditional Love Story (Self)
- 2009Peter Matthiessen: No Boundaries (Self - Hostess)
- 2008Gates of the Arctic (Narrator (voice))
- 2007Evening (Mrs. Wittenborn)
- 2007Gabon The Last Eden (Narrator)
- 2005Hoodwinked! (Granny (voice))
- 2005Nine Lives (Maggie)
- 2005Heights (Diana)
- 2005Tarzan II (Kala (voice))
- 2005The Chumscrubber (Carrie Johnson)
- 2005Nos Bastidores de Hollywood (Self (archive footage))
- 2004The Stepford Wives (Claire Wellington)
- 2004Strip Search (Karen Moore)
- 2003The Lion in Winter (Eleanor of Aquitaine)
- 2003What I Want My Words to Do to You (Self)
- 2003In Search of the Jaguar (Narrator)
- 2003Le Divorce (Olivia Pace)
- 2003Brush with Fate (Cornelia Engelbrecht)
- 2002The Safety of Objects (Esther Gold)
- 2001South Pacific (Nellie Forbush)
- 2001The Ballad of Lucy Whipple (Arvella Whipple)
- 2000Welcome to Hollywood (Glenn Close)
- 2000102 Dalmatians (Cruella de Vil)
- 2000Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (Dr. Elaine Keener (segments "This is Dr. Keener" and "Fantasies about Rebecca"))
- 1999Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End (Sarah Witting)
- 1999SNL: The Best of Adam Sandler (Gina (archive footage) (uncredited))
- 1999Tarzan (Kala (voice))
- 1999Cookie's Fortune (Camille Dixon)
- 1999The Big Chill: A Reunion (Self)
- 1999The Lady with the Torch (Self - Host)
- 1998Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Royal Albert Hall Celebration (Self - Performer)
- 1997In & Out (Glenn Close)
- 1997Air Force One (Kathryn Bennett)
- 1997In the Gloaming (Janet)
- 1997Paradise Road (Adrienne Pargiter)
- 1996Mars Attacks! (Marsha Dale)
- 1996101 Dalmatians (Cruella de Vil)
- 1996Mary Reilly (Mrs. Farraday)
- 1995Anne Frank Remembered (Diary Readings (voice))
- 1995Serving in Silence - The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer)
- 1994The Paper (Alicia Clark)
- 1993The House of the Spirits (Ferula Trueba)
- 1993Skylark (Sarah Witting)
- 1992Lincoln (Mary Todd Lincoln (voice))
- 1992Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (Self)
- 1991Meeting Venus (Karin Anderson)
- 1991Kapten Konkskäsi (Gutless)
- 1991Sarah, Plain and Tall (Sarah Wheaton)
- 1990Hamlet (Gertrude)
- 1990The Divine Garbo (Self - Host / Narrator)
- 1990Reversal of Fortune (Sunny von Bülow / Narrator)
- 1989Immediate Family (Linda Spector)
- 1989Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary (Self)
- 1988Dangerous Liaisons (Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil)
- 1988The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Narrator (voice))
- 1987Fatal Attraction (Alexandra "Alex" Forrest)
- 1985Jagged Edge (Teddy Barnes)
- 1985Maxie (Jan / Maxie)
- 1984The Natural (Iris Gaines)
- 1984The Stone Boy (Ruth Hillerman)
- 1984Something About Amelia (Gail Bennett)
- 1983The Big Chill (Sarah Cooper)
- 1982The World According to Garp (Jenny Fields)
- 1982The Elephant Man (Princess Alexandra)
- 1979Orphan Train (Jessica)
- 1979Too Far to Go (Rebecca Kuehn)
- -Encore (Marie)
- 2026Näljamängud. Lõikuspäeva päikesetõus (Drusilla Sickle)
- 2026La bola negra (Isabelle Durand)
- 2026Loomade farm (Frieda Pilkington (voice))
- 2025Glenn Close: A Feminist Force (Self - (archive footage))
- 2025Glenn Close, l'art de la transformation (Self)
- 2024Brothers (Cath Munger)
- 2021Swan Song (Dr. Eve Scott)
- 2021Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age (Self)
- 2021Show of Titles ("Dance a Little Closer" Performer)
- 2021Four Good Days (Deb)
- 2020Hillbilly Elegy (Bonnie "Mamaw" Vance)
- 2020In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover (Cruella de Vil)
- 2020The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America (Roy Cohn)
- 2019The Lavender Scare (Narrator (voice))
- 2018Let's Dance (Segment: "Night Shift")
- 2018The Green Fog
- 2017The Fabulous Allan Carr (Self (archive))
- 2012Casting By (Self)
- 2012Finding Your Roots (Self)
- 2009C à vous (Self)
- 2007Damages (Patty Hewes)
- 2005Hollywood's Greatest Villains (Self)
- 2004Tracking 'The Lion in Winter' (Self)
- 2003The Ellen DeGeneres Show (Self)
- 2002Sunset Boulevard: A Look Back (Self)
- 2002Räpane Mackey (Captain Monica Rawling)
- 2000Baby (Adult Sophie (Voice))
- 1999Tarzan in Concert with Phil Collins (Self)
- 1998Will & Grace (Fannie Lieber)
- 1997The View (Self)
- 1996The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful (Self)
- 1995MADtv (Self)
- 1994Inside the Actors Studio (Self)
- 1993Sesame Street's 25th Birthday: A Musical Celebration (Self (segment "Monster in the Mirror"))
- 1992Blast 'Em (Self (uncredited))
- 1990Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music (Self)
- 1989Simpsonid (Mona Simpson (voice))
- 1989An Amazin Era: Revised and Updated (Self)
- 1988This Morning (Self - Guest)
- 1988Stones for Ibarra (Sara Everton)
- 1988Electric Blue 29 ((archive footage))
- 1987Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys? (Self - Narrator)
- 1987Rabbit Ears - The Emperor and the Nightingale (Narrator (voice))
- 1986An Amazin' Era (Self)
- 1975The Rules of the Game (Neighbor)
- -The Plague Monkeys (Narrator)
- -Sunset Boulevard (Norma Desmond)
- 2025All's Fair (Dina Standish)
- 2025Hollywood Squares (Self)
- 2022The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window (The Woman in Seat 2A (uncredited))
- 2020טהרן (Marjan Montazeri)
- 2020Celebrity IOU (Self)
- 2019Desus & Mero (Self)
- 20183Below: Tales of Arcadia (Mother (voice))
- 2017Marcians (Self - Interviewee)
- 2017Sea Oak (Aunt Bernie)
- 2016WIRED's Autocomplete Interviews (Self - Guest)
- 2015The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (Self - Guest)
- 2015Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter (Self)
- 2014Variety Studio: Actors on Actors (Self)
- 2014Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (Self)
- 2014Late Night with Seth Meyers (Self)
- 2014The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (Self)
- 2009Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (Self - Guest)
- 2009Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (Self - Guest)
- 2007The Graham Norton Show (Self)
- 1999Presidendi Meeskond (Evelyn Baker Lang)
- 1999Perepea (Glenn Close (voice))
- 1997Leute heute (Self)
- 1996The Rosie O'Donnell Show (Self - Guest)
- 1994Ellen (Glenn Close)
- 1993Late Night with Conan O'Brien (Self - Guest)
- 1991Pebble Mill (Self)
- 1988American Experience (Self - Narrator (voice))
- 1984Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (Miss Jane Porter (voice) (uncredited))
- 1984Goldene Kamera (Self)
- 1981Wetten, dass..? (Self)
- 1977Bitte umblättern (Self)
- 1975Saturday Night Live (Self - Host)
- 1971Great Performances (Neighbor)
- 1971Great Performances (Self - Host)
- 1956Tony Awards (Self - Audience Member)
- 1956Tony Awards (Self - Winner)
- 1956Tony Awards (Self - Presenter)
- 1956Tony Awards (Self - Host / Performer / Winner)
- 1956Tony Awards (Hillary Clinton)
- 1953The Oscars (Self)
- 1951Hallmark Hall of Fame (Sara Everton)
- 1951Hallmark Hall of Fame (Sarah Wheaton)
- 1951Hallmark Hall of Fame (Sarah)
- 1951Hallmark Hall of Fame (Cornelia Englebrecht)
- -Standing By
- 1956Tony Awards (Self - Host)
- 1956Tony Awards (Self - Nominee)
- 1956Tony Awards (Self (archive footage))
- 1944Golden Globe Awards (Self - Nominee)
- 1944Golden Globe Awards (Self - Presenter/Nominee)
- 1944Golden Globe Awards (Self - Presenter)
- -Maud (Maud Oldcastle)