Glenn Close
Glenda Veronica Close 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
- 2026 · The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping as Drusilla Sickle
- 2025 · All's Fair as Dina Standish
- 2025 · Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery as Martha Delacroix
- 2025 · Animal Farm as Frieda Pilkington (voice)
- 2024 · A Look Through His Lens as Self
- 2023 · Tom Hanks: The Nomad as Self (archive footage)
- 2021 · Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age as Self
- 2020 · Hillbilly Elegy as Bonnie "Mamaw" Vance
- 2018 · The Wife as Joan Castleman
- 2017 · Father Figures as Helen Baxter
- 2017 · Marcians as Self - Interviewee
- 2016 · Anesthesia as Marcia Zarrow
- 2015 · The Great Gilly Hopkins as Nonnie Hopkins
- 2014 · 5 to 7 as Arlene Bloom
- 2013 · Love, Marilyn as Self
- 2012 · Casting By as Self
- 2011 · Albert Nobbs as Albert Nobbs
- 2007 · Evening as Mrs. Wittenborn
- 2005 · Hollywood's Greatest Villains as Self
- 2005 · Nos Bastidores de Hollywood as Self
- 2004 · Strip Search as Karen Moore
- 2003 · Le Divorce as Olivia Pace
- 2003 · Brush with Fate as Cornelia Engelbrecht
- 2001 · South Pacific as Nellie Forbush
- 2000 · Baby as Adult Sophie (voice)
- 2000 · Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her as Dr. Elaine Keener (segments "This is Dr. Keener" and "Fantasies about Rebecca")
- 1999 · SNL: The Best of Adam Sandler as Gina (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1999 · Cookie's Fortune as Camille Dixon
- 1997 · Paradise Road as Adrienne Pargiter
- 1996 · The Rosie O'Donnell Show as Self - Guest
- 1995 · Serving in Silence - The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story as Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer
- 1993 · Skylark as Sarah Witting
- 1991 · Meeting Venus as Karin Anderson
- 1991 · Sarah, Plain and Tall as Sarah Wheaton
- 1991 · Mel Gibson Goes Back to School as Gertrude (archive footage)
- 1990 · Hamlet as Gertrude
- 1989 · Immediate Family as Linda Spector
- 1988 · Electric Blue 29 as (archive footage)
- 1985 · Jagged Edge as Teddy Barnes
- 1985 · Maxie as Jan / Maxie
- 1983 · The Big Chill as Sarah Cooper
- 1982 · The World According to Garp as Jenny Fields
- 1979 · Too Far to Go as Rebecca Kuehn
- 1977 · Please Turn the Page as Self
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Sara Everton
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Sarah Wheaton
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Sarah
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Cornelia Englebrecht
- Future · Encore as Marie
- 2012 · Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
- Future · Standing By as
- 2025 · Glenn Close, l'art de la transformation as Self
- 2025 · The Summer Book as Grandmother
- 2025 · Back in Action as Ginny
- 2024 · Brothers as Cath Munger
- 2024 · Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story as Self
- 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 as The Woman in Seat 2A (uncredited)
- 2021 · Swan Song as Dr. Eve Scott
- 2021 · Boulevard! A Hollywood Story as Self (archive footage)
- 2021 · Show of Titles as "Dance a Little Closer" Performer
- 2021 · Four Good Days as Deb
- 2021 · Baba Yaga as Chief (voice)
- 2020 · In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover as Cruella de Vil
- 2020 · 537 Votes as Self (archive footage)
- 2020 · The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America as Roy Cohn
- 2020 · Tehran as Marjan Montazeri
- 2020 · Celebrity IOU as Self
- 2019 · The Lavender Scare as Narrator (voice)
- 2019 · Desus & Mero as Self
- 2018 · 3Below: Tales of Arcadia as Mother (voice)
- 2018 · Let's Dance as Segment: "Night Shift"
- 2018 · Andrew Lloyd Webber: Tribute to a Superstar as Self
- 2017 · Sea Oak as Aunt Bernie
- 2017 · The Wilde Wedding as Eve Wilde
- 2017 · Crooked House as Lady Edith de Haviland
- 2017 · What Happened to Monday as Nicolette Cayman
- 2016 · The Girl with All the Gifts as Dr. Caroline Caldwell
- 2016 · Warcraft as Alodi (uncredited)
- 2015 · The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
- 2015 · Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
- 2014 · Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
- 2014 · Guardians of the Galaxy as Nova Prime
- 2014 · Last Week Tonight with John Oliver as Self
- 2014 · Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- 2014 · The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
- 2014 · Low Down as Gram
- 2013 · Six by Sondheim as Self (archive footage)
- 2012 · Finding Your Roots as Self
- 2011 · Discovering Hamlet as Gertrude (archive footage)
- 2011 · Not My Life as Narrator (voice)
- 2011 · Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil as Granny (voice)
- 2009 · My Dog: An Unconditional Love Story as Self
- 2009 · C à vous as Self
- 2009 · Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
- 2009 · Late Night with Jimmy Fallon as Self - Guest
- 2009 · Peter Matthiessen: No Boundaries as Self - Hostess
- 2008 · Gates of the Arctic as Narrator (voice)
- 2007 · Damages as Patty Hewes
- 2007 · Gabon The Last Eden as Narrator
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
- 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 · Tracking 'The Lion in Winter' as Self
- 2003 · The Lion in Winter as Eleanor of Aquitaine
- 2003 · What I Want My Words to Do to You as Self
- 2003 · In Search of the Jaguar as Narrator
- 2003 · The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
- 2002 · The Safety of Objects as Esther Gold
- 2002 · Sunset Boulevard: A Look Back as Self
- 2002 · The Shield as Captain Monica Rawling
- 2001 · The Ballad of Lucy Whipple as Arvella Whipple
- 2000 · Welcome to Hollywood as Glenn Close
- 2000 · 102 Dalmatians as Cruella de Vil
- 1999 · Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End as Sarah Witting
- 1999 · The West Wing as Evelyn Baker Lang
- 1999 · Tarzan as Kala (voice)
- 1999 · Family Guy as Glenn Close (voice)
- 1999 · The Big Chill: A Reunion as Self
- 1999 · The Lady with the Torch as Self - Host
- 1998 · Will & Grace as Fannie Lieber
- 1998 · Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Royal Albert Hall Celebration as Self - Performer
- 1997 · In & Out as Glenn Close
- 1997 · The View as Self
- 1997 · Air Force One as Kathryn Bennett
- 1997 · Leute heute as Self
- 1997 · In the Gloaming as Janet
- 1996 · Mars Attacks! as Marsha Dale
- 1996 · 101 Dalmatians as Cruella de Vil
- 1996 · The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful as Self
- 1996 · Mary Reilly as Mrs. Farraday
- 1995 · MADtv as Self
- 1995 · Anne Frank Remembered as Diary Readings (voice)
- 1994 · Inside the Actors Studio as Self
- 1994 · Ellen as Glenn Close
- 1994 · The Paper as Alicia Clark
- 1993 · The House of the Spirits as Ferula Trueba
- 1993 · Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
- 1992 · Lincoln as Mary Todd Lincoln (voice)
- 1992 · Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall as Self
- 1991 · Pebble Mill as Self
- 1991 · Hook as Gutless
- 1990 · The Divine Garbo as Self - Host / Narrator
- 1990 · Reversal of Fortune as Sunny von Bülow / Narrator
- 1990 · Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music as Self
- 1989 · The Simpsons as Mona Simpson (voice)
- 1989 · An Amazin Era: Revised and Updated as Self
- 1989 · Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary as Self
- 1988 · Dangerous Liaisons as Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil
- 1988 · American Experience as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 1988 · This Morning as Self - Guest
- 1988 · The Legend of Sleepy Hollow as Narrator (voice)
- 1988 · Stones for Ibarra as Sara Everton
- 1987 · Fatal Attraction as Alexandra "Alex" Forrest
- 1987 · Rabbit Ears - The Emperor and the Nightingale as Narrator (voice)
- 1986 · An Amazin' Era as Self
- 1984 · The Natural as Iris Gaines
- 1984 · The Stone Boy as Ruth Hillerman
- 1984 · Goldene Kamera Verleihung as Self
- 1984 · Something About Amelia as Gail Bennett
- 1982 · The Elephant Man as Princess Alexandra
- 1981 · Wetten, dass..? as Self
- 1979 · Orphan Train as Jessica
- 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
- 1975 · The Rules of the Game as Neighbor
- 1971 · Great Performances as Neighbor
- 1971 · Great Performances as Self - Host
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Presenter
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self (archive footage)
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Host/Performer/Winner
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Audience Member
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Host
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Hillary Clinton
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Nominee
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Winner
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Host/Winner
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter/Nominee
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter
- Future · Maud as Maud Oldcastle