Glenn Close
Skuespiller, Producer, Forfatter
19. marts 1947 (79 år)
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.
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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Filmography
| 2026 | The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping · as Drusilla Sickle |
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| 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) |
| 2021 | Swan Song · as Dr. Eve Scott |
| 2020 | Hillbilly Elegy · as Bonnie "mamaw" Vance |
| 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 | The Green Fog · as Teddy Barnes |
| 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 CaldwellPå 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 |
| 2014 | Guardians of the Galaxy · as Nova Prime |
| 2014 | 5 to 7 · as Arlene Bloom |
| 2014 | Low Down · as GramPå 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 | Not My Life · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2011 | Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil · as Granny (voice) |
| 2010 | Louie (2010) · as Woman |
| 2009 | Home · as NarratorPå Plex |
| 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 | Die Geschichte des erotischen Films · 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 EngelbrechtPå Plex |
| 2002 | Pinocchio · as Blue Fairy |
| 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 | Air Force One · as Kathryn Bennett |
| 1997 | In the Gloaming · as Janet |
| 1997 | Paradise Road · as Adrienne Pargiter |
| 1996 | Mars Attacks! · as Marsha DalePå 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 GertrudePå 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 | Gandahar · as Ambisextra |
| 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) |
| 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 Foundation Conversations · as Marion Cunningham |
| 1979 | Orphan Train · as JessicaPå 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 Sara Everton |
| 2025 | All's Fair (2025) · as Executive Producer |
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| 2017 | The Wilde Wedding · as Executive Producer |
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| 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 Producer |
| 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 |