Glenn Close
Acting • Born 1947-03-19
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.
Filmography
184 credits
Mars Attacks!
Movie • 1996
Marsha Dale
Dangerous Liaisons
Movie • 1988
Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil
Hook
Movie • 1991
Gutless
The House of the Spirits
Movie • 1993
Ferula Trueba
Hamlet
Movie • 1990
Gertrude
102 Dalmatians
Movie • 2000
Cruella de Vil
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
Movie • 2000
Dr. Elaine Keener (segments "This is Dr. Keener" and "Fantasies about Rebecca")
Hoodwinked!
Movie • 2005
Granny (voice)
Fatal Attraction
Movie • 1987
Alexandra "Alex" Forrest
The Natural
Movie • 1984
Iris Gaines
The World According to Garp
Movie • 1982
Jenny Fields
Evening
Movie • 2007
Mrs. Wittenborn
The Safety of Objects
Movie • 2002
Esther Gold
101 Dalmatians
Movie • 1996
Cruella de Vil
Jagged Edge
Movie • 1985
Teddy Barnes
The Big Chill
Movie • 1983
Sarah Cooper
Cookie's Fortune
Movie • 1999
Camille Dixon
The Paper
Movie • 1994
Alicia Clark
Mary Reilly
Movie • 1996
Mrs. Farraday
Le Divorce
Movie • 2003
Olivia Pace
The Summer Book
Movie • 2025
Grandmother
Air Force One
Movie • 1997
Kathryn Bennett
The Stepford Wives
Movie • 2004
Claire Wellington
537 Votes
Movie • 2020
Self (archive footage)
The Chumscrubber
Movie • 2005
Carrie Johnson
Heights
Movie • 2005
Diana
Strip Search
Movie • 2004
Karen Moore
Tarzan
Movie • 1999
Kala (voice)
Nine Lives
Movie • 2005
Maggie
In the Gloaming
Movie • 1997
Janet
Sarah, Plain and Tall
Movie • 1991
Sarah Wheaton
Skylark
Movie • 1993
Sarah Witting
The Lion in Winter
Movie • 2003
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Reversal of Fortune
Movie • 1990
Sunny von Bülow / Narrator
Serving in Silence - The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story
Movie • 1995
Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer
The Deliverance
Movie • 2024
Alberta Jackson
South Pacific
Movie • 2001
Nellie Forbush
Albert Nobbs
Movie • 2011
Albert Nobbs
Brush with Fate
Movie • 2003
Cornelia Engelbrecht
Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End
Movie • 1999
Sarah Witting
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Movie • 2012
(archive footage)
Paradise Road
Movie • 1997
Adrienne Pargiter
Immediate Family
Movie • 1989
Linda Spector
Maxie
Movie • 1985
Jan / Maxie
Love, Marilyn
Movie • 2013
Self
Orphan Train
Movie • 1979
Jessica
Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall
Movie • 1992
Self
Too Far to Go
Movie • 1979
Rebecca Kuehn
The Stone Boy
Movie • 1984
Ruth Hillerman
My Dog: An Unconditional Love Story
Movie • 2009
Self
Guardians of the Galaxy
Movie • 2014
Nova Prime
Meeting Venus
Movie • 1991
Karin Anderson
Something About Amelia
Movie • 1984
Gail Bennett
Heart of Stone
Movie • 2023
King of Diamonds
Tom Hanks: The Nomad
Movie • 2023
Self (archive footage)
Discovering Hamlet
Movie • 2011
Gertrude (archive footage)
Low Down
Movie • 2014
Gram
Tarzan II
Movie • 2005
Kala (voice)
5 to 7
Movie • 2014
Arlene Bloom
The Elephant Man
Movie • 1982
Princess Alexandra
Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil
Movie • 2011
Granny (voice)
What I Want My Words to Do to You
Movie • 2003
Self
Baba Yaga
Movie • 2021
Chief (voice)
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
Movie • 2001
Arvella Whipple
Anesthesia
Movie • 2016
Marcia Zarrow
Not My Life
Movie • 2011
Narrator (voice)
Gabon The Last Eden
Movie • 2007
Narrator
The Divine Garbo
Movie • 1990
Self - Host / Narrator
A Look Through His Lens
Movie • 2024
Self
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
Movie • 2024
Self
Back in Action
Movie • 2025
Ginny
Lincoln
Movie • 1992
Mary Todd Lincoln (voice)
The Wife
Movie • 2017
Joan Castleman
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Movie • 1988
Narrator (voice)
In Search of the Jaguar
Movie • 2003
Narrator
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
Movie • 2005
Self (archive footage)
Boulevard! A Hollywood Story
Movie • 2021
Self (archive footage)
Gates of the Arctic
Movie • 2008
Narrator (voice)
The Girl with All the Gifts
Movie • 2016
Dr. Caroline Caldwell
The Great Gilly Hopkins
Movie • 2015
Nonnie Hopkins
Encore
Movie
Marie
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Movie • 2025
Martha Delacroix
Father Figures
Movie • 2017
Helen Baxter
Anne Frank Remembered
Movie • 1995
Diary Readings (voice)
SNL: The Best of Adam Sandler
Movie • 1999
Gina (archive footage) (uncredited)
Warcraft
Movie • 2016
Alodi (uncredited)
Crooked House
Movie • 2017
Lady Edith de Haviland
What Happened to Monday
Movie • 2017
Nicolette Cayman
In & Out
Movie • 1997
Glenn Close
Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary
Movie • 1989
Self
Welcome to Hollywood
Movie • 2000
Glenn Close
The Wilde Wedding
Movie • 2017
Eve Wilde
The Big Chill: A Reunion
Movie • 1999
Self
Peter Matthiessen: No Boundaries
Movie • 2009
Self - Hostess
Six by Sondheim
Movie • 2013
Self (archive footage)
Andrew Lloyd Webber: Tribute to a Superstar
Movie • 2018
Self
The Lady with the Torch
Movie • 1999
Self - Host
Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Royal Albert Hall Celebration
Movie • 1998
Self - Performer
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
Movie • 1996
Self
Let's Dance
Movie • 2018
Segment: "Night Shift"
Stones for Ibarra
Movie • 1988
Sara Everton
Hollywood's Greatest Villains
Movie • 2005
Self
Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music
Movie • 1990
Self
The Lavender Scare
Movie • 2019
Narrator (voice)
Sunset Boulevard: A Look Back
Movie • 2002
Self
The Rules of the Game
Movie • 1975
Neighbor
Hillbilly Elegy
Movie • 2020
Bonnie "Mamaw" Vance
Four Good Days
Movie • 2021
Deb
Electric Blue 29
Movie • 1988
(archive footage)
Tracking 'The Lion in Winter'
Movie • 2004
Self
In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
Movie • 2020
Cruella de Vil
Swan Song
Movie • 2021
Dr. Eve Scott
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
Movie • 2020
Roy Cohn
Brothers
Movie • 2024
Cath Munger
Casting By
Movie • 2012
Self
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
Movie • 2021
Self
An Amazin Era: Revised and Updated
Movie • 1989
Self
Rabbit Ears - The Emperor and the Nightingale
Movie • 1987
Narrator (voice)
Show of Titles
Movie • 2021
"Dance a Little Closer" Performer
An Amazin' Era
Movie • 1986
Self
Animal Farm
Movie • 2026
Frieda Pilkington (voice)
Glenn Close, l'art de la transformation
Movie • 2025
Self
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
Movie • 2026
Drusilla Sickle
The Plague Monkeys
Movie
Narrator
Sunset Boulevard
Movie
Norma Desmond
The Black Ball
Movie • 2026
Glenn Close: A Feminist Force
Movie • 2025
Self - (archive footage)
Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration
Movie • 1993
Self (segment "Monster in the Mirror")
Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?
Movie • 1987
Self - Narrator
Baby
Movie • 2000
Adult Sophie (Voice)
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Movie • 1984
Miss Jane Porter (voice) (uncredited)
This Morning
TV • 1988
Self - Guest
Inside the Actors Studio
TV • 1994
Self
The Simpsons
TV • 1989
Mona Simpson (voice)
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
TV • 2003
Self
The Shield
TV • 2002
Captain Monica Rawling
The View
TV • 1997
Self
Finding Your Roots
TV • 2012
Self
C à vous
TV • 2009
Self
Will & Grace
TV • 1998
Fannie Lieber
MADtv
TV • 1995
Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Sara Everton
Damages
TV • 2007
Patty Hewes
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
TV • 1993
Self - Guest
Desus & Mero
TV • 2019
Self
Pebble Mill
TV • 1991
Self
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self - Host
The West Wing
TV • 1999
Evelyn Baker Lang
Wetten, dass..?
TV • 1981
Self
Celebrity IOU
TV • 2020
Self
The Graham Norton Show
TV • 2007
Self
Tehran
TV • 2020
Marjan Montazeri
The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window
TV • 2022
The Woman in Seat 2A (uncredited)
American Experience
TV • 1988
Self - Narrator (voice)
Sea Oak
TV • 2017
Aunt Bernie
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV • 2015
Self - Guest
Leute heute
TV • 1997
Self
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
TV • 2014
Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Sarah Wheaton
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Sarah
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Cornelia Englebrecht
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV • 2014
Self
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
TV • 1996
Self - Guest
Ellen
TV • 1994
Glenn Close
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV • 2014
Self
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
TV • 2015
Self
Goldene Kamera
TV • 1984
Self
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
TV • 2014
Self
3Below: Tales of Arcadia
TV • 2018
Mother (voice)
Standing By
TV
Family Guy
TV • 1999
Glenn Close (voice)
Please Turn the Page
TV • 1977
Self
All's Fair
TV • 2025
Dina Standish
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
TV • 2009
Self - Guest
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Nominee
Great Performances
TV • 1971
Neighbor
Great Performances
TV • 1971
Self - Host
Marcians
TV • 2017
Self - Interviewee
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Presenter/Nominee
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Presenter
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
TV • 2009
Self - Guest
Maud
TV
Maud Oldcastle
Hollywood Squares
TV • 2025
Self