Glenn Close
Known for Acting · 183 credits
- Born
- 1947-03-19 (age 79)
- Place of birth
- Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
- Also known as
- Glenda Veronica Close
Biography
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
TV Shows (48)
Family Guy
1999
as Glenn Close (voice)
The Simpsons
1989
as Mona Simpson (voice)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self - Guest
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
as Self - Guest
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
as Self
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
as Self
Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Host
The West Wing
1999
as Evelyn Baker Lang
The Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee / Self - Presenter/Nominee
Marcians
2017
as Self - Interviewee
The View
1997
as Self
Damages
2007
as Patty Hewes
Wetten, dass..?
1981
as Self
Leute heute
1997
as Self
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Host / Self - Audience Member / Self - Nominee / Self - Winner / Self - Presenter / Self - Host / Performer / Winner / Self (archive footage) / Hillary Clinton
American Experience
1988
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Great Performances
1971
as Neighbor / Self - Host
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
as Self - Guest
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
2014
as Self
The Shield
2002
as Captain Monica Rawling
Will & Grace
1998
as Fannie Lieber
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
as Self
Desus & Mero
2019
as Self
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
as Self
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
as Self
Ellen
1994
as Glenn Close
C à vous
2009
as Self
The Oscars
1953
as Self
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
2009
as Self - Guest
Pebble Mill
1991
as Self
Tehran
2020
as Marjan Montazeri
Goldene Kamera
1984
as Self
Finding Your Roots
2012
as Self
Hollywood Squares
2025
as Self
3Below: Tales of Arcadia
2018
as Mother (voice)
All's Fair
2025
as Dina Standish
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996
as Self - Guest
The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window
2022
as The Woman in Seat 2A (uncredited)
Please Turn the Page
1977
as Self
Celebrity IOU
2020
as Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Sara Everton / Sarah Wheaton / Cornelia Englebrecht
This Morning
1988
as Self - Guest
MADtv
1995
as Self
Sea Oak
2017
as Aunt Bernie
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
as Self
Maud
as Maud Oldcastle
Standing By
Movies (135)
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)
What Happened to Monday
2017
as Nicolette Cayman
Hook
1991
as Gutless
Warcraft
2016
as Alodi (uncredited)
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
2026
as Drusilla Sickle
101 Dalmatians
1996
as Cruella de Vil
Mars Attacks!
1996
as Marsha Dale
Hoodwinked!
2005
as Granny (voice)
Back in Action
2025
as Ginny
Animal Farm
2026
as Frieda Pilkington (voice)
Heart of Stone
2023
as King of Diamonds
Air Force One
1997
as Kathryn Bennett
The Girl with All the Gifts
2016
as Dr. Caroline Caldwell
Fatal Attraction
1987
as Alexandra "Alex" Forrest
Crooked House
2017
as Lady Edith de Haviland
La Bola Negra
2026
as Isabelle Durand
Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil
2011
as Granny (voice)
102 Dalmatians
2000
as Cruella de Vil
The Deliverance
2024
as Alberta Jackson
The Wilde Wedding
2017
as Eve Wilde
Brothers
2024
as Cath Munger
Dangerous Liaisons
1988
as Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil
Welcome to Hollywood
2000
as Glenn Close
The Natural
1984
as Iris Gaines
The House of the Spirits
1993
as Ferula Trueba
Hillbilly Elegy
2020
as Bonnie "Mamaw" Vance
The Stepford Wives
2004
as Claire Wellington
Tarzan II
2005
as Kala (voice)
Father Figures
2017
as Helen Baxter
In & Out
1997
as Glenn Close
The Big Chill
1983
as Sarah Cooper
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
1984
as Miss Jane Porter (voice) (uncredited)
Albert Nobbs
2011
as Albert Nobbs
Swan Song
2021
as Dr. Eve Scott
Anesthesia
2016
as Marcia Zarrow
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
as (archive footage)
The Wife
2017
as Joan Castleman
Jagged Edge
1985
as Teddy Barnes
Reversal of Fortune
1990
as Sunny von Bülow / Narrator
Mary Reilly
1996
as Mrs. Farraday
The Great Gilly Hopkins
2015
as Nonnie Hopkins
Four Good Days
2021
as Deb
In the Gloaming
1997
as Janet
Six by Sondheim
2013
as Self (archive footage)
The Paper
1994
as Alicia Clark
Love, Marilyn
2013
as Self
Paradise Road
1997
as Adrienne Pargiter
The World According to Garp
1982
as Jenny Fields
5 to 7
2014
as Arlene Bloom
537 Votes
2020
as Self (archive footage)
The Safety of Objects
2002
as Esther Gold
Evening
2007
as Mrs. Wittenborn
Nine Lives
2005
as Maggie
The Summer Book
2025
as Grandmother
Show of Titles
2021
as "Dance a Little Closer" Performer
Hamlet
1990
as Gertrude
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005
as Self (archive footage)
Anne Frank Remembered
1995
as Diary Readings (voice)
The Chumscrubber
2005
as Carrie Johnson
Le Divorce
2003
as Olivia Pace
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
2000
as Dr. Elaine Keener (segments "This is Dr. Keener" and "Fantasies about Rebecca")
Let's Dance
2018
as Segment: "Night Shift"
Casting By
2012
as Self
The Lion in Winter
2003
as Eleanor of Aquitaine
Immediate Family
1989
as Linda Spector
Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary
1989
as Self
Tom Hanks: The Nomad
2023
as Self (archive footage)
The Stone Boy
1984
as Ruth Hillerman
Cookie's Fortune
1999
as Camille Dixon
Strip Search
2004
as Karen Moore
Encore
as Marie
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
2024
as Self
Baba Yaga
2021
as Chief (voice)
Tarzan in Concert with Phil Collins
1999
as Self
SNL: The Best of Adam Sandler
1999
as Gina (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Lavender Scare
2019
as Narrator (voice)
Low Down
2014
as Gram
Something About Amelia
1984
as Gail Bennett
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
2021
as Self
Discovering Hamlet
2011
as Gertrude (archive footage)
The Fabulous Allan Carr
2017
as Self (archive)
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
2001
as Arvella Whipple
Hollywood's Greatest Villains
2005
as Self
Sarah, Plain and Tall
1991
as Sarah Wheaton
The Big Chill: A Reunion
1999
as Self
Brush with Fate
2003
as Cornelia Engelbrecht
Lincoln
1992
as Mary Todd Lincoln (voice)
Blast 'Em
1992
as Self (uncredited)
Sunset Boulevard
as Norma Desmond
The Rules of the Game
1975
as Neighbor
Sunset Boulevard: A Look Back
2002
as Self
South Pacific
2001
as Nellie Forbush
Maxie
1985
as Jan / Maxie
Boulevard! A Hollywood Story
2021
as Self (archive footage)
Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration
1993
as Self (segment "Monster in the Mirror")
The Elephant Man
1982
as Princess Alexandra
Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall
1992
as Self
Gabon The Last Eden
2007
as Narrator
Too Far to Go
1979
as Rebecca Kuehn
In Search of the Jaguar
2003
as Narrator
Heights
2005
as Diana
Meeting Venus
1991
as Karin Anderson
Glenn Close: A Feminist Force
2025
as Self - (archive footage)
My Dog: An Unconditional Love Story
2009
as Self
Serving in Silence - The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story
1995
as Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer
Baby
2000
as Adult Sophie (Voice)
Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End
1999
as Sarah Witting
Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?
1987
as Self - Narrator
Stones for Ibarra
1988
as Sara Everton
In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
2020
as Cruella de Vil
What I Want My Words to Do to You
2003
as Self
The Green Fog
2018
Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Royal Albert Hall Celebration
1998
as Self - Performer
Orphan Train
1979
as Jessica
Gates of the Arctic
2008
as Narrator (voice)
Electric Blue 29
1988
as (archive footage)
A Look Through His Lens
2024
as Self
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
1988
as Narrator (voice)
About 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)… With 183 credits spanning from 1944 to 2026, Glenn Close has appeared in 135 films and 48 TV shows.
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Most Popular Glenn Close Movies
- 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)
- What Happened to Monday (2017) — as Nicolette Cayman
- Hook (1991) — as Gutless
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