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Glenn Close
Bekend van: ActerenGlenn 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.
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Damages
als Patty Hewes
Back in Action
All's Fair
102 Echte Dalmatiërs
Tarzan
La bola negra
als Isabelle Durand
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
101 Echte Dalmatiërs
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
als Drusilla Sickle
Guardians of the Galaxy
Cruella
3Onder: Verhalen uit Arcadia
Air Force One
Heart of Stone
Swan Song
What Happened to Monday
Mars Attacks!
Crooked House
Fatal Attraction
Animal Farm
The Stepford Wives
The Deliverance
Hoodwinked!
Father Figures
Tarzan II
The Girl with All the Gifts
Dangerous Liaisons
The Wife
Superkapje en de Turbo-Oma's
als Granny (voice)
Brothers
The House of the Spirits
Hillbilly Elegy
The Natural
The Paper
Glenn Close: A Feminist Force
als Self
The Wilde Wedding
The Big Chill
Jagged Edge
Four Good Days
Albert Nobbs
als Albert Nobbs
Le Divorce
Nine Lives
als Maggie
Reversal of Fortune
5 to 7
The World According to Garp
Evening
The Safety of Objects
als Esther Gold
Mary Reilly
The Great Gilly Hopkins
als Nonnie Hopkins
Love, Marilyn
The Summer Book
als Grandmother
The Chumscrubber
als Carrie Johnson
Hamlet
als Gertrude
The Lion in Winter
als Eleanor of Aquitaine
Cookie's Fortune
als Camille Dixon
Paradise Road
537 Votes
als Self (archive footage)
Anesthesia
als Marcia Zarrow
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
In the Gloaming
als Janet
Six by Sondheim
als Self (archive footage)
Heights
als Diana
Strip Search
als Karen Moore
Low Down
Serving in Silence - The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story
als Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer
Immediate Family
Discovering Hamlet
My Dog: An Unconditional Love Story
als Self
The Lavender Scare
Sarah, Plain and Tall
als Sarah Wheaton
The Stone Boy
als Ruth Hillerman
Tom Hanks: The Nomad
Meeting Venus
als Karin Anderson
Gates of the Arctic
als Narrator (voice)
Anne Frank Remembered
als Diary Readings (voice)
What I Want My Words to Do to You
als Self
Brush with Fate
als Cornelia Engelbrecht
The Elephant Man
als Princess Alexandra