Glenn Close

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

Known For: Acting

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

2026

Animal Farm as Frieda Pilkington (voice)
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping as Drusilla Sickle
The Black Ball as Isabelle

2025

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

2024

The Deliverance as Alberta Jackson
Brothers as Cath Munger
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
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age as Self
Boulevard! A Hollywood Story as Self (archive footage)
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 Bonnie "Mamaw" Vance
537 Votes as Self (archive footage)
In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover as Cruella de Vil
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America as Roy Cohn

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

2017

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

2016

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

2015

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self - Guest
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
The Great Gilly Hopkins as Nonnie Hopkins

2014

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver as Self
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
Guardians of the Galaxy as Nova Prime
5 to 7 as Arlene Bloom
Low Down as Gram

2013

Love, Marilyn as Self
Six by Sondheim as Self (archive footage)

2012

Finding Your Roots as Self
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
Casting By as Self

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
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon as Self - Guest
C à vous as Self
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
The Chumscrubber as Carrie Johnson
Heights as Diana
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
Hollywood's Greatest Villains as Self

2001

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

2000

102 Dalmatians as Cruella de Vil
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her as Dr. Elaine Keener (segments "This is Dr. Keener" and "Fantasies about Rebecca")
Welcome to Hollywood as Glenn Close
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
SNL: The Best of Adam Sandler as Gina (archive footage) (uncredited)
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
Paradise Road as Adrienne Pargiter
In the Gloaming as Janet

1996

101 Dalmatians as Cruella de Vil
Mars Attacks! as Marsha Dale
The Rosie O'Donnell Show as Self - Guest
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
Journey ... (Executive Producer)
Anne Frank Remembered as Diary Readings (voice)

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
Skylark as Sarah Witting
Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration as Self (segment "Monster in the Mirror")

1992

Lincoln as Mary Todd Lincoln (voice)
Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall as Self

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

1987

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

1986

An Amazin' Era as Self

1985

Jagged Edge as Teddy Barnes
Maxie as Jan / Maxie

1984

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

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