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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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Daunele
as Patty Hewes 
Cruella
Producer 
Înapoi în acțiune
as Ginny 
La cuțite: Trezește-te, mortule!
as Martha Delacroix 
102 Dalmațieni
as Cruella de Vil 
Tarzan
as Kala (voice) 
Totul este corect
as Dina Standish 
Trei Sub Stele: Povești din Arcadia
as Mother (voice) 
La bola negra
as Isabelle Durand 
101 Dalmațieni
as Cruella de Vil 
Soția
as Joan Castleman 
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
as Drusilla Sickle 
Gardienii galaxiei
as Nova Prime 
Hoodwinked!
as Granny (voice) 
Air Force One
as Kathryn Bennett 
Heart of Stone
as King of Diamonds 
Scufita Rosie 2
as Granny (voice) 
Swan Song
as Dr. Eve Scott 
Șapte surori
as Nicolette Cayman 
Fata cu toate darurile
as Dr. Caroline Caldwell 
Neveste perfecte
as Claire Wellington 
Marte atacă!
as Marsha Dale 
Casa necinstită
as Lady Edith de Haviland 
Atracție fatală
as Alexandra "Alex" Forrest 
Ferma Animalelor
as Frieda Pilkington (voice) 
Redempțiunea
as Alberta Jackson 
Bastarzii
as Helen Baxter 
Tarzan II
as Kala (voice) 
Legături periculoase
as Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil 
Reversal of Fortune
as Sunny von Bülow / Narrator 
Glenn Close: A Feminist Force
as Self 
Fraţii
as Cath Munger 
Casa spiritelor
as Ferula Trueba 
Elegia celor batuti de soarta
as Mamaw 
Născut învingător
as Iris Gaines 
Albert Nobbs
as Albert Nobbs 
Ziarul
as Alicia Clark 
Hamlet
as Gertrude 
The Wilde Wedding
as Eve Wilde 
The Big Chill
as Sarah Cooper 
Lama zimțată
as Teddy Barnes 
Patru zile bune
as Deb 
Le Divorce
as Olivia Pace 
Nouă vieți
as Maggie 
De la 5 la 7
as Arlene Bloom 
The Chumscrubber
as Carrie Johnson 
The World According to Garp
as Jenny Fields 
537 de voturi
as Self (archive footage) 
Evening
as Mrs. Wittenborn 
Siguranța obiectelor
as Esther Gold 
Mary Reilly
as Mrs. Farraday 
Încăpățânata Gilly Hopkins
as Nonnie Hopkins 
Averea lui Cookie
as Camille Dixon 
Lucruri pe care le poți spune doar uitându-te la ea
as Dr. Elaine Keener (segments "This is Dr. Keener" and "Fantasies about Rebecca") 
Dragoste, Marilyn
as Self 
Leul în iarnă
as Eleanor of Aquitaine 
The Summer Book
as Grandmother 
Anestezia
as Marcia Zarrow 
Paradise Road
as Adrienne Pargiter 
Low Down
as Gram 
In the Gloaming
as Janet 
Sarah, Plain and Tall
as Sarah Wheaton 
Six by Sondheim
as Self (archive footage) 
Înălțimi
as Diana 
Percheziția
as Karen Moore 
Mai presus de datorie
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