Glenn Close
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Mar 19, 1947 (age 79)
- Place of birth
- Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
- Credits
- 186
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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Known for
Guardians of the Galaxy
2014Movie
Nova Prime
The Simpsons
1989TV
Mona Simpson (voice)
Tarzan
1999Movie
Kala (voice)
Warcraft
2016Movie
Alodi (uncredited)
What Happened to Monday
2017Movie
Nicolette Cayman
Mars Attacks!
1996Movie
Marsha Dale
Filmography
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
2026Movie
Drusilla Sickle
LA BOLA NEGRA
2026Movie
Isabelle Durand
Animal Farm
2026Movie
Frieda Pilkington (voice)
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
2025Movie
Martha Delacroix
All's Fair
2025TV
Dina Standish
Glenn Close: A Feminist Force
2025Movie
Self
Glenn Close, l'art de la transformation
2025Movie
Self
The Summer Book
2025Movie
Grandmother
Hollywood Squares
2025TV
Self
Back in Action
2025Movie
Ginny
Brothers
2024Movie
Cath Munger
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
2024Movie
Self
The Deliverance
2024Movie
Alberta Jackson
A Look Through His Lens
2024Movie
Self
Heart of Stone
2023Movie
King of Diamonds
Tom Hanks: The Nomad
2023Movie
Self (archive footage)
The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window
2022TV
The Woman in Seat 2A (uncredited)
Swan Song
2021Movie
Dr. Eve Scott
Boulevard! A Hollywood Story
2021Movie
Self (archive footage)
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
2021Movie
Self
Show of Titles
2021Movie
"Dance a Little Closer" Performer
Four Good Days
2021Movie
Deb
Baba Yaga
2021Movie
Chief (voice)
Hillbilly Elegy
2020Movie
Mamaw
In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
2020Movie
Cruella de Vil
537 Votes
2020Movie
Self (archive footage)
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
2020Movie
Roy Cohn
Tehran
2020TV
Marjan Montazeri
Celebrity IOU
2020TV
Self
The Lavender Scare
2019Movie
Narrator (voice)
Desus & Mero
2019TV
Self
3Below: Tales of Arcadia
2018TV
Mother (voice)
Let's Dance
2018Movie
Segment: "Night Shift"
Andrew Lloyd Webber: Tribute to a Superstar
2018Movie
Self
The Green Fog
2018Movie
Father Figures
2017Movie
Helen Baxter
Marcians
2017TV
Self - Interviewee
Sea Oak
2017TV
Aunt Bernie
The Wilde Wedding
2017Movie
Eve Wilde
Crooked House
2017Movie
Lady Edith de Haviland
What Happened to Monday
2017Movie
Nicolette Cayman
The Wife
2017Movie
Joan Castleman
The Fabulous Allan Carr
2017Movie
Self (archive footage)
The Girl with All the Gifts
2016Movie
Dr. Caroline Caldwell
Warcraft
2016Movie
Alodi (uncredited)
Anesthesia
2016Movie
Marcia Zarrow
The Great Gilly Hopkins
2015Movie
Nonnie Hopkins
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015TV
Self - Guest
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015TV
Self
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014TV
Self
Guardians of the Galaxy
2014Movie
Nova Prime
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
2014TV
Self
5 to 7
2014Movie
Arlene Bloom
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014TV
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014TV
Self
Low Down
2014Movie
Gram
Six by Sondheim
2013Movie
Self (archive footage)
Love, Marilyn
2013Movie
Self
Casting By
2012Movie
Self
Finding Your Roots
2012TV
Self
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012Movie
(archive footage)
Albert Nobbs
2011Movie
Albert Nobbs
Discovering Hamlet
2011Movie
Gertrude (archive footage)
Not My Life
2011Movie
Narrator (voice)
Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil
2011Movie
Granny (voice)
My Dog: An Unconditional Love Story
2009Movie
Self
C à vous
2009TV
Self
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009TV
Self - Guest
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
2009TV
Self - Guest
Peter Matthiessen: No Boundaries
2009Movie
Self - Hostess
Gates of the Arctic
2008Movie
Narrator (voice)
Damages
2007TV
Patty Hewes
Evening
2007Movie
Mrs. Wittenborn
Gabon The Last Eden
2007Movie
Narrator
The Graham Norton Show
2007TV
Self
Hoodwinked!
2005Movie
Granny (voice)
Hollywood's Greatest Villains
2005Movie
Self
Nine Lives
2005Movie
Maggie
Heights
2005Movie
Diana
Tarzan II
2005Movie
Kala (voice)
The Chumscrubber
2005Movie
Carrie Johnson
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005Movie
Self (archive footage)
The Stepford Wives
2004Movie
Claire Wellington
Strip Search
2004Movie
Karen Moore
Tracking 'The Lion in Winter'
2004Movie
Self
The Lion in Winter
2003Movie
Eleanor of Aquitaine
What I Want My Words to Do to You
2003Movie
Self
In Search of the Jaguar
2003Movie
Narrator
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003TV
Self
Le Divorce
2003Movie
Olivia Pace
Brush with Fate
2003Movie
Cornelia Engelbrecht
The Safety of Objects
2002Movie
Esther Gold
Sunset Boulevard: A Look Back
2002Movie
Self
The Shield
2002TV
Captain Monica Rawling
South Pacific
2001Movie
Nellie Forbush
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
2001Movie
Arvella Whipple
Welcome to Hollywood
2000Movie
Glenn Close
Baby
2000Movie
Adult Sophie (Voice)
102 Dalmatians
2000Movie
Cruella de Vil
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
2000Movie
Dr. Elaine Keener (segments "This is Dr. Keener" and "Fantasies about Rebecca")
Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End
1999Movie
Sarah Witting
SNL: The Best of Adam Sandler
1999Movie
Gina (archive footage) (uncredited)
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
1999Movie
Self
The West Wing
1999TV
Evelyn Baker Lang
Tarzan in Concert with Phil Collins
1999Movie
Self
Tarzan
1999Movie
Kala (voice)
Cookie's Fortune
1999Movie
Camille Dixon
Family Guy
1999TV
Glenn Close (voice)
The Big Chill: A Reunion
1999Movie
Self
The Lady with the Torch
1999Movie
Self - Host
Will & Grace
1998TV
Fannie Lieber
Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Royal Albert Hall Celebration
1998Movie
Self - Performer
In & Out
1997Movie
Glenn Close (uncredited)
The View
1997TV
Self
Air Force One
1997Movie
Kathryn Bennett
Leute heute
1997TV
Self
In the Gloaming
1997Movie
Janet
Paradise Road
1997Movie
Adrienne Pargiter
Mars Attacks!
1996Movie
Marsha Dale
101 Dalmatians
1996Movie
Cruella de Vil
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996TV
Self - Guest
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
1996Movie
Self
Mary Reilly
1996Movie
Mrs. Farraday
MADtv
1995TV
Self
Anne Frank Remembered
1995Movie
Diary Readings (voice)
Serving in Silence - The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story
1995Movie
Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer
Inside the Actors Studio
1994TV
Self
Ellen
1994TV
Glenn Close
The Paper
1994Movie
Alicia Clark
Sesame Street's 25th Birthday: A Musical Celebration
1993Movie
Self (segment "Monster in the Mirror")
The House of the Spirits
1993Movie
Ferula Trueba
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993TV
Self - Guest
Skylark
1993Movie
Sarah Witting
Lincoln
1992Movie
Mary Todd Lincoln (voice)
Blast 'Em
1992Movie
Self (uncredited)
Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall
1992Movie
Self
Pebble Mill
1991TV
Self
Meeting Venus
1991Movie
Karin Anderson
Hook
1991Movie
Gutless
Sarah, Plain and Tall
1991Movie
Sarah Wheaton
Hamlet
1990Movie
Gertrude
The Divine Garbo
1990Movie
Self - Host / Narrator
Reversal of Fortune
1990Movie
Sunny von Bülow / Narrator
Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music
1990Movie
Self
The Simpsons
1989TV
Mona Simpson (voice)
An Amazin Era: Revised and Updated
1989Movie
Self
Immediate Family
1989Movie
Linda Spector
Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary
1989Movie
Self
Dangerous Liaisons
1988Movie
Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil
American Experience
1988TV
Self - Narrator (voice)
This Morning
1988TV
Self - Guest
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
1988Movie
Narrator (voice)
Stones for Ibarra
1988Movie
Sara Everton
Electric Blue 29
1988Movie
(archive footage)
Fatal Attraction
1987Movie
Alexandra "Alex" Forrest
Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?
1987Movie
Self - Narrator
Rabbit Ears - The Emperor and the Nightingale
1987Movie
Narrator (voice)
An Amazin' Era
1986Movie
Self
Jagged Edge
1985Movie
Teddy Barnes
Maxie
1985Movie
Jan / Maxie
The Natural
1984Movie
Iris Gaines
The Stone Boy
1984Movie
Ruth Hillerman
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
1984Movie
Miss Jane Porter (voice) (uncredited)
Goldene Kamera
1984TV
Self
Something About Amelia
1984Movie
Gail Bennett
The Big Chill
1983Movie
Sarah Cooper
The World According to Garp
1982Movie
Jenny Fields
The Elephant Man
1982Movie
Princess Alexandra
Wetten, dass..?
1981TV
Self
Orphan Train
1979Movie
Jessica
Too Far to Go
1979Movie
Rebecca Kuehn
Please Turn the Page
1977TV
Self
Saturday Night Live
1975TV
Self - Host
The Rules of the Game
1975Movie
Neighbor
Great Performances
1971TV
Neighbor, Self - Host
Tony Awards
1956TV
Self - Host, Self - Audience Member, Self - Nominee, Self - Winner, Self - Presenter, Self - Host / Performer / Winner, Self (archive footage), Hillary Clinton
The Oscars
1953TV
Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951TV
Sara Everton, Sarah Wheaton, Sarah, Cornelia Englebrecht
Golden Globe Awards
1944TV
Self - Nominee, Self - Presenter/Nominee, Self - Presenter
Maud
TV
Maud Oldcastle
Standing By
TV
Diamonds on the Silver Screen
Movie
Self
The Midnight Library
Movie
Mrs.Elm
Sunset Boulevard
Movie
Norma Desmond
Encore
Movie
Marie
The Plague Monkeys
Movie
Narrator