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Glenn Close
Known for: ActingGlenn 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
as Patty Hewes 
Kruela
Producer 
Atgal į darbą
as Ginny 
All's Fair
as Dina Standish 
Prisikėlęs iš numirusių
as Martha Delacroix 
102 Dalmatinai
as Cruella de Vil 
Tarzanas
as Kala (voice) 
La bola negra
as Isabelle Durand 
3Below: Tales of Arcadia
as Mother (voice) 
Žmona
as Joan Castleman 
101 Dalmatinas
as Cruella de Vil 
Bado žaidynės: aukų dienai auštant
as Drusilla Sickle 
Galaktikos sergėtojai
as Nova Prime 
Kriminalinė raudonkepuraitės istorija
as Granny (voice) 
Prezidento lėktuvas
as Kathryn Bennett 
Kriminalinė raudonkepuraitės istorija 2: Prieš Blogį
as Granny (voice) 
Akmeninė širdis
as King of Diamonds 
Gulbės giesmė
as Dr. Eve Scott 
Septynios seserys
as Nicolette Cayman 
Naujoji karta Z
as Dr. Caroline Caldwell 
Stepfordo moterys
as Claire Wellington 
Marsas atakuoja
as Marsha Dale 
Kreivas namelis
as Lady Edith de Haviland 
Fatal Attraction
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as Alexandra "Alex" Forrest 
Gyvulių ūkis: Mažieji herojai
as Frieda Pilkington (voice) 
Išvadavimas
as Alberta Jackson 
Kas jūsų tėtis?
as Helen Baxter 
Tarzanas 2
as Kala (voice) 
Pavojingi ryšiai
as Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil 
Reversal of Fortune
as Sunny von Bülow / Narrator 
Glenn Close: A Feminist Force
as Self 
Broliai
as Cath Munger 
Dvasių namai
as Ferula Trueba 
Hillbilly Elegy
as Mamaw 
The Natural
as Iris Gaines 
Albert Nobbs
as Albert Nobbs 
The Paper
as Alicia Clark 
The Wilde Wedding
as Eve Wilde 
The Big Chill
as Sarah Cooper 
Jagged Edge
as Teddy Barnes 
Keturios nuostabios dienos
as Deb 
Le Divorce
as Olivia Pace 
Nine Lives
as Maggie 
Nuo 5 iki 7. Įsimylėjėlių laikas
as Arlene Bloom 
The Chumscrubber
as Carrie Johnson 
Pasaulis pagal Garpą
as Jenny Fields 
537 Votes
as Self (archive footage) 
Paslaptis Iš praeities
as Mrs. Wittenborn 
The Safety of Objects
as Esther Gold 
Mary Reilly
as Mrs. Farraday 
The Great Gilly Hopkins
as Nonnie Hopkins 
Love, Marilyn
as Self 
The Lion in Winter
as Eleanor of Aquitaine 
Vasaros knyga
as Grandmother 
Hamlet
as Gertrude 
Anesthesia
as Marcia Zarrow 
Cookie's Fortune
as Camille Dixon 
Paradise Road
as Adrienne Pargiter 
Moterų paslaptys
as Dr. Elaine Keener (segments "This is Dr. Keener" and "Fantasies about Rebecca") 
Nuosmukis
as Gram 
In the Gloaming
as Janet 
Sarah, Plain and Tall
as Sarah Wheaton 
Six by Sondheim
as Self (archive footage) 
Heights
as Diana 
Strip Search
as Karen Moore 
Serving in Silence - The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story
as Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer 
Immediate Family
as Linda Spector 
Discovering Hamlet
as Gertrude (archive footage) 
The Lavender Scare
as Narrator (voice) 
The Stone Boy
as Ruth Hillerman 
Tom Hanks: The Nomad
as Self (archive footage) 
Meeting Venus
as Karin Anderson 
Gates of the Arctic
as Narrator (voice) 
Anne Frank Remembered
as Diary Readings (voice) 
Brush with Fate
as Cornelia Engelbrecht 
The Elephant Man
as Princess Alexandra