Glenn Close

Born: 1947-03-19 in Greenwich, Connecticut, USA

Known For: Acting

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). 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Glenn Close, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

2026

La Bola Negra as Isabelle Durand
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping as Drusilla Sickle
Animal Farm as Frieda Pilkington (voice)

2025

All's Fair as Dina Standish
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery as Martha Delacroix
Hollywood Squares as Self
Back in Action as Ginny
The Summer Book as Grandmother
Glenn Close, l'art de la transformation as Self

2024

Brothers as Cath Munger
The Deliverance as Alberta Jackson
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story as Self
A Look Through His Lens as Self

2023

Heart of Stone as King of Diamonds
Tom Hanks: The Nomad as Self (archive footage)

2022

The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window as The Woman in Seat 2A (uncredited)

2021

Cruella ... (Producer)
Swan Song as Dr. Eve Scott
Four Good Days as Deb
Boulevard! A Hollywood Story as Self (archive footage)
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age as Self
Show of Titles as "Dance a Little Closer" Performer
Baba Yaga as Chief (voice)

2020

Tehran as Marjan Montazeri
Celebrity IOU as Self
Hillbilly Elegy as Mamaw
537 Votes as Self (archive footage)
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America as Roy Cohn
In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover as Cruella de Vil

2019

Desus & Mero as Self
The Lavender Scare as Narrator (voice)

2018

3Below: Tales of Arcadia as Mother (voice)
Let's Dance as Segment: "Night Shift"
Andrew Lloyd Webber: Tribute to a Superstar as Self
The Green Fog

2017

Marcians as Self - Interviewee
What Happened to Monday as Nicolette Cayman
Crooked House as Lady Edith de Haviland
The Wilde Wedding as Eve Wilde
Father Figures as Helen Baxter
The Wife as Joan Castleman
Sea Oak as Aunt Bernie

2016

Warcraft as Alodi (uncredited)
The Girl with All the Gifts as Dr. Caroline Caldwell
Anesthesia as Marcia Zarrow

2011

Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil as Granny (voice)
Albert Nobbs as Albert Nobbs
Discovering Hamlet as Gertrude (archive footage)
Not My Life as Narrator (voice)

2009

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
C à vous as Self
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon as Self - Guest
My Dog: An Unconditional Love Story as Self
Peter Matthiessen: No Boundaries as Self - Hostess

2008

Gates of the Arctic as Narrator (voice)

2007

The Graham Norton Show as Self
Damages as Patty Hewes
Evening as Mrs. Wittenborn
Gabon The Last Eden as Narrator

2005

Hoodwinked! as Granny (voice)
Tarzan II as Kala (voice)
Nine Lives as Maggie
Heights as Diana
The Chumscrubber as Carrie Johnson
Hollywood's Greatest Villains as Self

2004

The Stepford Wives as Claire Wellington
Strip Search as Karen Moore
Tracking 'The Lion in Winter' as Self

2003

The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
Le Divorce as Olivia Pace
The Lion in Winter as Eleanor of Aquitaine
Brush with Fate as Cornelia Engelbrecht
What I Want My Words to Do to You as Self
In Search of the Jaguar as Narrator

2002

The Shield as Captain Monica Rawling
The Safety of Objects as Esther Gold
Sunset Boulevard: A Look Back as Self

2001

The Ballad of Lucy Whipple as Arvella Whipple
South Pacific as Nellie Forbush

2000

102 Dalmatians as Cruella de Vil
Welcome to Hollywood as Glenn Close
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her as Dr. Elaine Keener (segments "This is Dr. Keener" and "Fantasies about Rebecca")
Baby as Adult Sophie (Voice)

1999

Family Guy as Glenn Close (voice)
The West Wing as Evelyn Baker Lang
Tarzan as Kala (voice)
Cookie's Fortune as Camille Dixon
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special as Self
SNL: The Best of Adam Sandler as Gina (archive footage) (uncredited)
Tarzan in Concert with Phil Collins as Self
The Big Chill: A Reunion as Self
Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End as Sarah Witting
The Lady with the Torch as Self - Host

1998

Will & Grace as Fannie Lieber
Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Royal Albert Hall Celebration as Self - Performer

1997

The View as Self
Leute heute as Self
Air Force One as Kathryn Bennett
In & Out as Glenn Close (uncredited)
Paradise Road as Adrienne Pargiter
In the Gloaming as Janet

1996

Mars Attacks! as Marsha Dale
The Rosie O'Donnell Show as Self - Guest
101 Dalmatians as Cruella de Vil
Mary Reilly as Mrs. Farraday
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful as Self

1995

MADtv as Self
Serving in Silence - The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story as Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer
Anne Frank Remembered as Diary Readings (voice)
Journey ... (Executive Producer)

1994

Ellen as Glenn Close
The Paper as Alicia Clark
Inside the Actors Studio as Self

1993

Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
The House of the Spirits as Ferula Trueba
Sesame Street's 25th Birthday: A Musical Celebration as Self (segment "Monster in the Mirror")
Skylark as Sarah Witting

1992

Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall as Self
Blast 'Em as Self (uncredited)
Lincoln as Mary Todd Lincoln (voice)

1991

Pebble Mill as Self
Hook as Gutless
Sarah, Plain and Tall as Sarah Wheaton
Meeting Venus as Karin Anderson

1990

Reversal of Fortune as Sunny von Bülow / Narrator
Hamlet as Gertrude
Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music as Self
The Divine Garbo as Self - Host / Narrator

1989

The Simpsons as Mona Simpson (voice)
Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary as Self
Immediate Family as Linda Spector
An Amazin Era: Revised and Updated as Self

1988

American Experience as Self - Narrator (voice)
This Morning as Self - Guest
Dangerous Liaisons as Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil
Stones for Ibarra as Sara Everton
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow as Narrator (voice)
Electric Blue 29 as (archive footage)

1987

Fatal Attraction as Alex Forrest
Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys? as Self - Narrator
Rabbit Ears - The Emperor and the Nightingale as Narrator (voice)

1986

An Amazin' Era as Self

1985

Jagged Edge as Teddy Barnes
Maxie as Jan / Maxie

1984

Goldene Kamera as Self
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes as Miss Jane Porter (voice) (uncredited)
The Natural as Iris Gaines
The Stone Boy as Ruth Hillerman
Something About Amelia as Gail Bennett

1983

The Big Chill as Sarah Cooper

1982

The World According to Garp as Jenny Fields
The Elephant Man as Princess Alexandra

1981

Wetten, dass..? as Self

1979

Orphan Train as Jessica
Too Far to Go as Rebecca Kuehn

1977

Please Turn the Page as Self

1975

Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
The Rules of the Game as Neighbor

1971

Great Performances as Neighbor

1956

Tony Awards as Self - Host

1953

The Oscars as Self

1951

Hallmark Hall of Fame as Sara Everton

1944

Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee