Glenn Close
Actor, Producer, Writer
March 19, 1947 (79 years)
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).
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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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).
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
Filmography
| 2026 | The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping · as Drusilla Sickle |
| 2026 | La bola negra · as Isabelle Durand |
| 2025 | Animal Farm · as Frieda Pilkington (voice) |
| 2025 | Wake Up Dead Man · as Martha Delacroix |
| 2025 | All's Fair (2025) · as Dina Standish |
| 2025 | Back in Action · as Ginny |
| 2024 | The Summer Book · as Grandmother |
| 2024 | Brothers · as Cath Munger |
| 2024 | The Deliverance · as Alberta Jackson |
| 2024 | The New Look · as Carmel Snow |
| 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) |
| 2022 | Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind · as Nova Prime Irani Rael |
| 2021 | Swan Song · as Dr. Eve Scott |
| 2020 | Hillbilly Elegy · as Mamaw |
| 2020 | In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover · as Cruella De Vil |
| 2020 | Tehran · as Marjan Montazeri |
| 2020 | Disclosure · as Albert Nobbs |
| 2020 | Four Good Days · as Deb |
| 2019 | You Don't Nomi · as Alex Forrest |
| 2018 | 3Below: Tales of Arcadia · as Mother (voice) |
| 2017 | |
| 2017 | Father Figures · as Helen Baxter |
| 2017 | Sea Oak · as Aunt Bernie |
| 2017 | Sea Oak · as Bernie |
| 2017 | Crooked House · as Lady Edith De Haviland |
| 2017 | The Wilde Wedding · as Eve Wilde |
| 2017 | The Wife · as Joan Castleman |
| 2017 | What Happened to Monday · as Nicolette Cayman |
| 2017 | The Lavender Scare · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2016 | The Girl with All the Gifts · as Dr. Caroline CaldwellOn Plex |
| 2016 | The 70th Annual Tony Awards · as Hillary Clinton |
| 2016 | Warcraft · as Alodi (uncredited) |
| 2015 | Anesthesia · as Marcia Zarrow |
| 2015 | The Great Gilly Hopkins · as Nonnie Hopkins |
| 2015 | Mind/Game: The Unquiet Journey of Chamique Holdsclaw · as Narrator |
| 2014 | Guardians of the Galaxy · as Nova Prime |
| 2014 | 5 to 7 · as Arlene Bloom |
| 2014 | Low Down · as GramOn Plex |
| 2012 | Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen · as (archive Footage) |
| 2012 | Doggiewoggiez! Poochiewoochiez! · as Cruella Deville |
| 2011 | Albert Nobbs · as Albert Nobbs |
| 2011 | Touch of Evil · as The Vamp |
| 2011 | Discovering Hamlet · as Gertrude (archive Footage) |
| 2011 | Not My Life · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2011 | Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil · as Granny (voice) |
| 2010 | Louie (2010) · as Woman |
| 2007 | Damages · as Patty Hewes |
| 2007 | Evening · as Mrs. Wittenborn |
| 2006 | Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters · as Alex Forrest |
| 2006 | George and Martha Washington: A 40 Year Romance · as Narrator |
| 2005 | Hoodwinked! · as Granny (voice) |
| 2005 | Nine Lives · as Maggie |
| 2005 | ... A Father... A Son... Once Upon a Time in Hollywood · as Alex Forrest |
| 2005 | The Chumscrubber · as Carrie Johnson |
| 2005 | Heights · as Diana |
| 2005 | Tarzan II · as Kala (voice) |
| 2004 | Retrosexual: The '80s · as Cast |
| 2004 | The Stepford Wives · as Claire Wellington |
| 2004 | Strip Search · as Karen Moore |
| 2004 | The Story of Erotic Film · as Cast |
| 2003 | The Lion in Winter · as Eleanor Of Aquitaine |
| 2003 | Freedom: A History of Us · as Eliza Andrews |
| 2003 | Le divorce · as Olivia Pace |
| 2003 | A Closer Walk · as Narrator |
| 2003 | Brush with Fate · as Cornelia Engelbrecht |
| 2002 | Gylne tider · as Alex Forrest |
| 2002 | The Shield · as Captain Monica Rawling |
| 2001 | The Safety of Objects · as Esther Gold |
| 2001 | South Pacific · as Nellie Forbush |
| 2001 | The Ballad of Lucy Whipple · as Arvella Whipple |
| 2000 | 102 Dalmatians · as Cruella De Vil |
| 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 | Sarah, Plain & Tall: Winter's End · as Sarah Witting |
| 1999 | Saturday Night Live: The Best of Adam Sandler · as Gina (archive Footage) (uncredited) |
| 1999 | The West Wing · as Evelyn Baker Lang |
| 1999 | Tarzan · as Kala (voice) |
| 1999 | Cookie's Fortune · as Camille Dixon |
| 1999 | Family Guy · as Glenn Close (voice) |
| 1998 | The Bad Boys of Saturday Night Live · as Wife |
| 1998 | Will & Grace · as Fannie Lieber |
| 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 DaleOn Plex |
| 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 | 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 | Hook · as Gutless |
| 1991 | Mel Gibson Goes Back to School · as Gertrude |
| 1991 | Meeting Venus · as Karin Anderson |
| 1991 | Sarah, Plain and Tall · as Sarah Wheaton |
| 1990 | Hamlet · as GertrudeOn Plex |
| 1990 | Reversal of Fortune · as Sunny Von Bülow / Narrator |
| 1989 | The Simpsons · as Mona Simpson (voice) |
| 1989 | Immediate Family · as Linda Spector |
| 1988 | Dangerous Liaisons · as Marquise Isabelle De Merteuil |
| 1988 | Stones for Ibarra · as Sara Everton |
| 1987 | Fatal Attraction · as Alexandra "alex" Forrest |
| 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)On Plex |
| 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 | SAG-AFTRA Foundation Conversations · as Marion Cunningham |
| 1979 | Orphan Train · as JessicaOn Plex |
| 1979 | Too Far to Go · as Rebecca Kuehn |
| 1965 | National Geographic Specials · as Narrator |
| 1955 | This is Your Life (UK) · as Filmed Tribute |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame · as Sarah Wheaton |
| 2025 | All's Fair (2025) · as Executive Producer |
| 2024 | |
| 2021 | |
| 2017 | |
| 2017 | |
| 2017 | The Wilde Wedding · as Executive Producer |
| 2011 | |
| 2001 | South Pacific · as Executive Producer |
| 2001 | The Ballad of Lucy Whipple · as Executive Producer |
| 2000 | Baby · as Executive Producer |
| 1999 | Sarah, Plain & Tall: Winter's End · as Executive Producer |
| 1995 | Journey · as Executive ProducerOn Plex |
| 1995 | Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story · as Executive Producer |
| 1993 | Skylark · as Executive Producer |
| 1991 | Sarah, Plain and Tall · as Executive Producer |
| 1988 | American Experience · as Associate Producer |
| 2011 | Albert Nobbs · as Screenplay |