Glenn Close
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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.
Known for
Credits
What Happened to Monday (2017)
as Nicolette Cayman
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025)
as Martha Delacroix
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
as Nova Prime
Tarzan (1999)
as Kala (voice)
Hook (1991)
as Gutless
Hoodwinked! (2005)
as Granny (voice)
101 Dalmatians (1996)
as Cruella de Vil
Mars Attacks! (1996)
as Marsha Dale
Back in Action (2025)
as Ginny
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping (2026)
as Drusilla Sickle
Warcraft (2016)
as Alodi (uncredited)
Air Force One (1997)
as Kathryn Bennett
The Girl with All the Gifts (2016)
as Dr. Caroline Caldwell
Animal Farm (2026)
as Frieda Pilkington (voice)
Fatal Attraction (1987)
as Alexandra "Alex" Forrest
Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil (2011)
as Granny (voice)
102 Dalmatians (2000)
as Cruella de Vil
Heart of Stone (2023)
as King of Diamonds
The Stepford Wives (2004)
as Claire Wellington
The Natural (1984)
as Iris Gaines
The House of the Spirits (1993)
as Ferula Trueba
Crooked House (2017)
as Lady Edith de Haviland
Brothers (2024)
as Cath Munger
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)
as Miss Jane Porter (voice) (uncredited)
La Bola Negra (2026)
as Isabelle Durand
The Wilde Wedding (2017)
as Eve Wilde
Tarzan II (2005)
as Kala (voice)
Hillbilly Elegy (2020)
as Bonnie "Mamaw" Vance
Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
as Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil
Swan Song (2021)
as Dr. Eve Scott
The Deliverance (2024)
as Alberta Jackson
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012)
as (archive footage)
Jagged Edge (1985)
as Teddy Barnes
The Big Chill (1983)
as Sarah Cooper
Welcome to Hollywood (2000)
as Glenn Close
Reversal of Fortune (1990)
as Sunny von Bülow / Narrator
Albert Nobbs (2011)
as Albert Nobbs
Anesthesia (2016)
as Marcia Zarrow
Father Figures (2017)
as Helen Baxter
The Paper (1994)
as Alicia Clark
Mary Reilly (1996)
as Mrs. Farraday
In & Out (1997)
as Glenn Close
The Wife (2017)
as Joan Castleman
The Great Gilly Hopkins (2015)
as Nonnie Hopkins
The World According to Garp (1982)
as Jenny Fields
The Safety of Objects (2002)
as Esther Gold
Paradise Road (1997)
as Adrienne Pargiter
Love, Marilyn (2013)
as Self
In the Gloaming (1997)
as Janet
Le Divorce (2003)
as Olivia Pace
Four Good Days (2021)
as Deb
Hamlet (1990)
as Gertrude
The Chumscrubber (2005)
as Carrie Johnson
Anne Frank Remembered (1995)
as Diary Readings (voice)
Immediate Family (1989)
as Linda Spector
Show of Titles (2021)
as "Dance a Little Closer" Performer
Strip Search (2004)
as Karen Moore
Cookie's Fortune (1999)
as Camille Dixon
5 to 7 (2014)
as Arlene Bloom
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood (2005)
as Self (archive footage)
Nine Lives (2005)
as Maggie
537 Votes (2020)
as Self (archive footage)
The Summer Book (2025)
as Grandmother
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (2000)
as Dr. Elaine Keener (segments "This is Dr. Keener" and "Fantasies about Rebecca")
Casting By (2012)
as Self
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (2024)
as Self
Six by Sondheim (2013)
as Self (archive footage)
Something About Amelia (1984)
as Gail Bennett
Heights (2005)
as Diana
Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary (1989)
as Self
Evening (2007)
as Mrs. Wittenborn
SNL: The Best of Adam Sandler (1999)
as Gina (archive footage) (uncredited)
Baba Yaga (2021)
as Chief (voice)
The Lavender Scare (2019)
as Narrator (voice)
Let's Dance (2018)
as Segment: "Night Shift"
Tom Hanks: The Nomad (2023)
as Self (archive footage)
In Search of the Jaguar (2003)
as Narrator
Baby (2000)
as Adult Sophie (Voice)
Encore (—)
as Marie
Blast 'Em (1992)
as Self (uncredited)
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple (2001)
as Arvella Whipple
The Stone Boy (1984)
as Ruth Hillerman
Tarzan in Concert with Phil Collins (1999)
as Self
Sunset Boulevard (—)
as Norma Desmond
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age (2021)
as Self
South Pacific (2001)
as Nellie Forbush
Brush with Fate (2003)
as Cornelia Engelbrecht
Boulevard! A Hollywood Story (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
The Lion in Winter (2003)
as Eleanor of Aquitaine
Lincoln (1992)
as Mary Todd Lincoln (voice)
Too Far to Go (1979)
as Rebecca Kuehn
Hollywood's Greatest Villains (2005)
as Self
Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (1992)
as Self
Serving in Silence - The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (1995)
as Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer
Low Down (2014)
as Gram
The Fabulous Allan Carr (2017)
as Self (archive)
Sarah, Plain and Tall (1991)
as Sarah Wheaton
The Green Fog (2018)
Actor
Skylark (1993)
as Sarah Witting
Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End (1999)
as Sarah Witting
Maxie (1985)
as Jan / Maxie
Discovering Hamlet (2011)
as Gertrude (archive footage)
The Big Chill: A Reunion (1999)
as Self
Sunset Boulevard: A Look Back (2002)
as Self
Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration (1993)
as Self (segment "Monster in the Mirror")
Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Royal Albert Hall Celebration (1998)
as Self - Performer
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1988)
as Narrator (voice)
Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys? (1987)
as Self - Narrator
The Plague Monkeys (—)
as Narrator
Electric Blue 29 (1988)
as (archive footage)
Orphan Train (1979)
as Jessica
Meeting Venus (1991)
as Karin Anderson
Stones for Ibarra (1988)
as Sara Everton
Gabon The Last Eden (2007)
as Narrator
A Look Through His Lens (2024)
as Self
The Rules of the Game (1975)
as Neighbor
In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover (2020)
as Cruella de Vil
Glenn Close: A Feminist Force (2025)
as Self - (archive footage)
The Elephant Man (1982)
as Princess Alexandra
Gates of the Arctic (2008)
as Narrator (voice)
What I Want My Words to Do to You (2003)
as Self
Rabbit Ears - The Emperor and the Nightingale (1987)
as Narrator (voice)
My Dog: An Unconditional Love Story (2009)
as Self
Glenn Close, l'art de la transformation (2025)
as Self
Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music (1990)
as Self
Tracking 'The Lion in Winter' (2004)
as Self
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful (1996)
as Self
An Amazin' Era (1986)
as Self
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America (2020)
as Roy Cohn
The Lady with the Torch (1999)
as Self - Host
The Divine Garbo (1990)
as Self - Host / Narrator
An Amazin Era: Revised and Updated (1989)
as Self
Not My Life (2011)
as Narrator (voice)
Andrew Lloyd Webber: Tribute to a Superstar (2018)
as Self
Peter Matthiessen: No Boundaries (2009)
as Self - Hostess