Glenn Close
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1947-03-19 (78 years old)
Place of Birth
Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
Glenn Close
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.
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Acting
Encore
as Marie
(2026)
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
as Drusilla Sickle
(2025)
Back in Action
as Ginny
(2025)
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
as Martha Delacroix
(2025)
The Summer Book
as Grandmother
(2025)
Animal Farm
as Frieda Pilkington (voice)
(2025)
(2024)
Brothers
as Cath Munger
(2024)
The Deliverance
as Alberta Jackson
(2024)
(2024)
A Look Through His Lens
as Self
(2023)
Heart of Stone
as King of Diamonds
(2023)
Tom Hanks: The Nomad
as Self (archive footage)
(2021)
Swan Song
as Dr. Eve Scott
(2021)
Four Good Days
as Deb
(2021)
(2021)
Show of Titles
as "Dance a Little Closer" Performer
(2021)
Baba Yaga
as Chief (voice)
(2021)
Boulevard! A Hollywood Story
as Self (archive footage)
(2020)
Hillbilly Elegy
as Bonnie "Mamaw" Vance
(2020)
In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
as Cruella de Vil
(2020)
537 Votes
as Self (archive footage)
(2020)
(2019)
The Lavender Scare
as Narrator (voice)
(2018)
The Wife
as Joan Castleman
(2018)
Let's Dance
as Segment: "Night Shift"
(2018)
(2017)
What Happened to Monday
as Nicolette Cayman
(2017)
Crooked House
as Lady Edith de Haviland
(2017)
Father Figures
as Helen Baxter
(2017)
The Wilde Wedding
as Eve Wilde
(2016)
Warcraft
as Alodi (uncredited)
(2016)
The Girl with All the Gifts
as Dr. Caroline Caldwell
(2016)
Anesthesia
as Marcia Zarrow
(2015)
The Great Gilly Hopkins
as Nonnie Hopkins
(2014)
Guardians of the Galaxy
as Nova Prime
(2014)
5 to 7
as Arlene Bloom
(2014)
Low Down
as Gram
(2013)
Love, Marilyn
as Self
(2013)
Six by Sondheim
as Self (archive footage)
(2012)
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)
(2012)
Casting By
as Self
(2011)
Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil
as Granny (voice)
(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)
(2009)
(2009)
Peter Matthiessen: No Boundaries
as Self - Hostess
(2008)
Gates of the Arctic
as Narrator (voice)
(2007)
Evening
as Mrs. Wittenborn
(2007)
Gabon The Last Eden
as Narrator
(2005)
Hoodwinked!
as Granny (voice)
(2005)
Tarzan II
as Kala (voice)
(2005)
The Chumscrubber
as Carrie Johnson
(2005)
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
as Self
(2005)
Nine Lives
as Maggie
(2005)
Heights
as Diana
(2005)
(2004)
The Stepford Wives
as Claire Wellington
(2004)
Strip Search
as Karen Moore
(2004)
(2003)
Le Divorce
as Olivia Pace
(2003)
The Lion in Winter
as Eleanor of Aquitaine
(2003)
Brush with Fate
as Cornelia Engelbrecht
(2003)
In Search of the Jaguar
as Narrator
(2003)
(2002)
The Safety of Objects
as Esther Gold
(2002)
(2001)
South Pacific
as Nellie Forbush
(2001)
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
as Arvella Whipple
(2000)
102 Dalmatians
as Cruella de Vil
(2000)
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
as Dr. Elaine Keener (segments "This is Dr. Keener" and "Fantasies about Rebecca")
(2000)
Baby
as Adult Sophie (voice)
(1999)
Tarzan
as Kala (voice)
(1999)
The Big Chill: A Reunion
as Self
(1999)
SNL: The Best of Adam Sandler
as Gina (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1999)
Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End
as Sarah Witting
(1999)
Cookie's Fortune
as Camille Dixon
(1999)
The Lady with the Torch
as Self - Host
(1998)
Welcome to Hollywood
as Glenn Close
(1998)
Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Royal Albert Hall Celebration
as Self - Performer
(1997)
Air Force One
as Kathryn Bennett
(1997)
In & Out
as Glenn Close
(1997)
Paradise Road
as Adrienne Pargiter
(1997)
In the Gloaming
as Janet
(1996)
Mars Attacks!
as Marsha Dale
(1996)
101 Dalmatians
as Cruella de Vil
(1996)
Mary Reilly
as Mrs. Farraday
(1996)
(1995)
Serving in Silence - The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story
as Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer
(1995)
Anne Frank Remembered
as Diary Readings (voice)
(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)
(1992)
(1991)
Hook
as Gutless
(1991)
Sarah, Plain and Tall
as Sarah Wheaton
(1991)
Meeting Venus
as Karin Anderson
(1991)
Mel Gibson Goes Back to School
as Gertrude (archive footage)
(1990)
Reversal of Fortune
as Sunny von Bülow / Narrator
(1990)
Hamlet
as Gertrude
(1990)
(1990)
The Divine Garbo
as Self - Host / Narrator
(1989)
Immediate Family
as Linda Spector
(1989)
(1989)
(1988)
Dangerous Liaisons
as Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil
(1988)
Electric Blue 29
as (archive footage)
(1988)
Stones for Ibarra
as Sara Everton
(1988)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
as Narrator (voice)
(1987)
Fatal Attraction
as Alexandra "Alex" Forrest
(1987)
Rabbit Ears - The Emperor and the Nightingale
as Narrator (voice)
(1986)
An Amazin' Era
as Self
(1985)
Jagged Edge
as Teddy Barnes
(1985)
Maxie
as Jan / Maxie
(1984)
The Natural
as Iris Gaines
(1984)
Something About Amelia
as Gail Bennett
(1984)
The Stone Boy
as Ruth Hillerman
(1983)
The Big Chill
as Sarah Cooper
(1982)
The World According to Garp
as Jenny Fields
(1982)
The Elephant Man
as Princess Alexandra
(1979)
Orphan Train
as Jessica
(1979)
Too Far to Go
as Rebecca Kuehn
(1975)
The Rules of the Game
as Neighbor
Crew
(2021)
Cruella
Producer
(2017)
The Wilde Wedding
Executive Producer
(2011)
Albert Nobbs
Screenplay, Producer
(2001)
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
Executive Producer
(2001)
South Pacific
Executive Producer
(2000)
Baby
Executive Producer
(1995)
Journey
Executive Producer
(1995)
Serving in Silence - The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story
Executive Producer
(1993)
Skylark
Executive Producer
(1991)
Sarah, Plain and Tall
Executive Producer