Glenn Close
104 movies · 15 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Mar 19, 1947 (age 79)
- Place of birth
- Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
- Also known as
- Glenda Veronica Close
Biography
Glenn Close (born March 19, 1947) is an American actress and singer. In a career spanning five decades on screen and stage, she has received numerous accolades, including three Primetime Emmy Awards, three Tony Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards, as well as nominations for eight Academy Awards, three Grammy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, and a Laurence Olivier Award. She was named by Time as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2019. She received the Academy Honorary Award in 2026.
Close gained early recognition for her work on the stage, with her Broadway debut in the play Love for Love (1974), before going on to win 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, the musical Sunset Boulevard (1995). She received her first Academy Award nomination for her film debut in The World According to Garp (1982), and her first Emmy nomination in 1984 for the television film Something About Amelia. Close's career further progressed throughout the 1980s and 1990s with several acclaimed film performances, including The Big Chill (1983), The Natural (1984), Fatal Attraction (1987), Dangerous Liaisons (1988), Reversal of Fortune (1990), The Paper (1994), Mars Attacks! (1996), and Air Force One (1997). During this period, she also portrayed Cruella de Vil in 101 Dalmatians (1996) and its 2000 sequel 102 Dalmatians, and voiced Kala in Tarzan (1999).
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Close won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for her portrayal of Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer in Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (1995), followed by two consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for playing Patty Hewes in Damages (2007–2012). In film, Close gained continued recognition in the 21st century for her roles in Albert Nobbs (2011), The Wife (2017), Hillbilly Elegy (2020), and Wake Up Dead Man (2025).
Close is the president of Trillium Productions and co-founder of the website FetchDog. She has made political donations supporting 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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Known for
Glenn Close: movies and TV shows
Acting (117)
- Upcoming The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
as Drusilla Sickle
- Upcoming Encore
as Marie
- Upcoming The Plague Monkeys
as Narrator
- Upcoming Sunset Boulevard
as Norma Desmond
- Upcoming The Midnight Library
as Mrs.Elm
- Upcoming
- Upcoming
- 2026 LA BOLA NEGRA
as Isabelle Durand
- 2026 Animal Farm
as Frieda Pilkington (voice)
- 2025 Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
as Martha Delacroix
- 2025
- 2025 The Summer Book
as Grandmother
- 2025 Back in Action
as Ginny
- 2024 Brothers
as Cath Munger
- 2024 The Deliverance
as Alberta Jackson
- 2023 Heart of Stone
as King of Diamonds
- 2022 The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window · TV
as The Woman in Seat 2A (uncredited) · 1 episode
- 2021 Swan Song
as Dr. Eve Scott
- 2021 Show of Titles
as "Dance a Little Closer" Performer
- 2021 Four Good Days
as Deb
- 2021 Baba Yaga
as Chief (voice)
- 2020 Hillbilly Elegy
as Mamaw
- 2020 In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
as Cruella de Vil
- 2020
- 2020
- 2019 The Lavender Scare
as Narrator (voice)
- 2018
- 2018 Let's Dance
as Segment: "Night Shift"
- 2018
- 2017 Father Figures
as Helen Baxter
- 2017
- 2017 The Wilde Wedding
as Eve Wilde
- 2017 Crooked House
as Lady Edith de Haviland
- 2017 What Happened to Monday
as Nicolette Cayman
- 2017 The Wife
as Joan Castleman
- 2016 The Girl with All the Gifts
as Dr. Caroline Caldwell
- 2016 Warcraft
as Alodi (uncredited)
- 2016 Anesthesia
as Marcia Zarrow
- 2015 The Great Gilly Hopkins
as Nonnie Hopkins
- 2014 Guardians of the Galaxy
as Nova Prime
- 2014 5 to 7
as Arlene Bloom
- 2014 Low Down
as Gram
- 2012 Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)
- 2011 Albert Nobbs
as Albert Nobbs
- 2011 Discovering Hamlet
as Gertrude (archive footage)
- 2011 Not My Life
as Narrator (voice)
- 2011 Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil
as Granny (voice)
- 2008 Gates of the Arctic
as Narrator (voice)
- 2007
- 2007 Evening
as Mrs. Wittenborn
- 2007 Gabon The Last Eden
as Narrator
- 2005 Hoodwinked!
as Granny (voice)
- 2005 Nine Lives
as Maggie
- 2005 Heights
as Diana
- 2005 Tarzan II
as Kala (voice)
- 2005 The Chumscrubber
as Carrie Johnson
- 2004 The Stepford Wives
as Claire Wellington
- 2004 Strip Search
as Karen Moore
- 2003 The Lion in Winter
as Eleanor of Aquitaine
- 2003 In Search of the Jaguar
as Narrator
- 2003 Le Divorce
as Olivia Pace
- 2003 Brush with Fate
as Cornelia Engelbrecht
- 2002 The Safety of Objects
as Esther Gold
- 2002
- 2001 South Pacific
as Nellie Forbush
- 2001 The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
as Arvella Whipple
- 2000 Welcome to Hollywood
as Glenn Close
- 2000 Baby
as Adult Sophie (Voice)
- 2000 102 Dalmatians
as Cruella de Vil
- 2000 Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
as Dr. Elaine Keener (segments "This is Dr. Keener" and "Fantasies about Rebecca")
- 1999 Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End
as Sarah Witting
- 1999 SNL: The Best of Adam Sandler
as Gina (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1999
- 1999 Tarzan
as Kala (voice)
- 1999 Cookie's Fortune
as Camille Dixon
- 1999
- 1998
- 1997 In & Out
as Glenn Close (uncredited)
- 1997 Air Force One
as Kathryn Bennett
- 1997 In the Gloaming
as Janet
- 1997 Paradise Road
as Adrienne Pargiter
- 1996 Mars Attacks!
as Marsha Dale
- 1996 101 Dalmatians
as Cruella de Vil
- 1996 Mary Reilly
as Mrs. Farraday
- 1995 Anne Frank Remembered
as Diary Readings (voice)
- 1995 Serving in Silence - The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story
as Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer
- 1994
- 1994 The Paper
as Alicia Clark
- 1993 The House of the Spirits
as Ferula Trueba
- 1993 Skylark
as Sarah Witting
- 1992 Lincoln
as Mary Todd Lincoln (voice)
- 1991 Meeting Venus
as Karin Anderson
- 1991 Hook
as Gutless
- 1991 Sarah, Plain and Tall
as Sarah Wheaton
- 1990 Hamlet
as Gertrude
- 1990 Reversal of Fortune
as Sunny von Bülow / Narrator
- 1989
- 1989 Immediate Family
as Linda Spector
- 1988 Dangerous Liaisons
as Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil
- 1988 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
as Narrator (voice)
- 1988 Stones for Ibarra
as Sara Everton
- 1988 Electric Blue 29
as (archive footage)
- 1987 Fatal Attraction
as Alexandra "Alex" Forrest
- 1987 Rabbit Ears - The Emperor and the Nightingale
as Narrator (voice)
- 1985 Jagged Edge
as Teddy Barnes
- 1985 Maxie
as Jan / Maxie
- 1984 The Natural
as Iris Gaines
- 1984 The Stone Boy
as Ruth Hillerman
- 1984 Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
as Miss Jane Porter (voice) (uncredited)
- 1984 Something About Amelia
as Gail Bennett
- 1983 The Big Chill
as Sarah Cooper
- 1982 The World According to Garp
as Jenny Fields
- 1982 The Elephant Man
as Princess Alexandra
- 1979 Orphan Train
as Jessica
- 1979 Too Far to Go
as Rebecca Kuehn
- 1975 The Rules of the Game
as Neighbor
- 1951 Hallmark Hall of Fame · TV
as Sara Everton / Sarah Wheaton / Sarah / Cornelia Englebrecht · 4 episodes
Behind the camera (15)
- Upcoming Sunset Boulevard
Producer
- Upcoming
- 2025
- 2025 The Summer Book
Producer
- 2021 Cruella
Producer
- 2017
- 2017 The Wilde Wedding
Executive Producer
- 2011 Albert Nobbs
Screenplay, Producer, Lyricist
- 2001 South Pacific
Executive Producer
- 2001 The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
Executive Producer
- 2000 Baby
Executive Producer
- 1995 Journey
Executive Producer
- 1995 Serving in Silence - The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story
Executive Producer
- 1993 Skylark
Executive Producer
- 1991 Sarah, Plain and Tall
Executive Producer
Talk shows and appearances (69)
- Upcoming
- 2025
- 2025
- 2025 Hollywood Squares
3 episodes
- 2024
- 2024
- 2023
- 2021
- 2021
- 2020
- 2020 Celebrity IOU
1 episode
- 2019 Desus & Mero
1 episode
- 2018
- 2017 Marcians
1 episode
- 2017
- 2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2 episodes
- 2015 Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
1 episode
- 2014 Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2 episodes
- 2014 Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
1 episode
- 2014 Late Night with Seth Meyers
1 episode
- 2014 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
1 episode
- 2013
- 2013
- 2012
- 2012 Finding Your Roots
1 episode
- 2009
- 2009 C à vous
1 episode
- 2009 Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
1 episode
- 2009 Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
1 episode
- 2009
- 2007 The Graham Norton Show
2 episodes
- 2005
- 2005
- 2004
- 2003
- 2003 The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2 episodes
- 2002
- 1999
- 1999
- 1999
- 1999
- 1998
- 1997 The View
3 episodes
- 1997 Leute heute
2 episodes
- 1996 The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1 episode
- 1996
- 1995 MADtv
1 episode
- 1994 Inside the Actors Studio
1 episode
- 1993
- 1993 Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1 episode
- 1992
- 1992
- 1991 Pebble Mill
1 episode
- 1990
- 1990
- 1989
- 1989
- 1988 American Experience
1 episode
- 1988 This Morning
1 episode
- 1987
- 1986
- 1984 Goldene Kamera
1 episode
- 1981 Wetten, dass..?
1 episode
- 1977 Please Turn the Page
1 episode
- 1975 Saturday Night Live
2 episodes
- 1971 Great Performances
3 episodes
- 1956 Tony Awards
14 episodes
- 1953 The Oscars
6 episodes
- 1944 Golden Globe Awards
8 episodes