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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.
Filmography 79
Damages
+5
as Patty Hewes 
Cruella
+3
Producer 
Back in Action
as Ginny 
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
as Martha Delacroix 
102 Dalmatians
+3
as Cruella de Vil 
Tarzan
+3
as Kala (voice) 
All's Fair
as Dina Standish 
3Below: Tales of Arcadia
+2
as Mother (voice) 
La bola negra
as Isabelle Durand 
101 Dalmatians
+3
as Cruella de Vil 
The Wife
+4
as Joan Castleman 
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
as Drusilla Sickle 
Guardians of the Galaxy
+3
as Nova Prime 
Hoodwinked!
+2
as Granny (voice) 
Air Force One
+6
as Kathryn Bennett 
Heart of Stone
as King of Diamonds 
Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil
as Granny (voice) 
Swan Song
as Dr. Eve Scott 
What Happened to Monday
as Nicolette Cayman 
The Girl with All the Gifts
+13
as Dr. Caroline Caldwell 
The Stepford Wives
+12
as Claire Wellington 
Mars Attacks!
+7
as Marsha Dale 
Crooked House
+5
as Lady Edith de Haviland 
Fatal Attraction
+12
as Alexandra "Alex" Forrest 
Animal Farm
+1
as Frieda Pilkington (voice) 
The Deliverance
as Alberta Jackson 
Father Figures
+3
as Helen Baxter 
Tarzan II
+3
as Kala (voice) 
Dangerous Liaisons
+3
as Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil 
Reversal of Fortune
+3
as Sunny von Bülow / Narrator 
Glenn Close: A Feminist Force
as Self 
Brothers
as Cath Munger 
The House of the Spirits
+4
as Ferula Trueba 
Hillbilly Elegy
as Mamaw 
The Natural
+6
as Iris Gaines 
Albert Nobbs
as Albert Nobbs 
The Paper
+2
as Alicia Clark 
Hamlet
+11
as Gertrude 
The Wilde Wedding
+12
as Eve Wilde 
The Big Chill
+4
as Sarah Cooper 
Jagged Edge
+6
as Teddy Barnes 
Four Good Days
+10
as Deb 
Le Divorce
+2
as Olivia Pace 
Nine Lives
+3
as Maggie 
5 to 7
+8
as Arlene Bloom 
The Chumscrubber
+4
as Carrie Johnson 
The World According to Garp
+4
as Jenny Fields 
537 Votes
+1
as Self (archive footage) 
Evening
+2
as Mrs. Wittenborn 
The Safety of Objects
+4
as Esther Gold 
Mary Reilly
+4
as Mrs. Farraday 
The Great Gilly Hopkins
+11
as Nonnie Hopkins 
Cookie's Fortune
as Camille Dixon 
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
+5
as Dr. Elaine Keener (segments "This is Dr. Keener" and "Fantasies about Rebecca") 
Love, Marilyn
+3
as Self 
The Lion in Winter
as Eleanor of Aquitaine 
The Summer Book
+5
as Grandmother 
Anesthesia
+8
as Marcia Zarrow 
Paradise Road
+3
as Adrienne Pargiter 
Low Down
+7
as Gram 
In the Gloaming
+3
as Janet 
Sarah, Plain and Tall
as Sarah Wheaton 
Six by Sondheim
as Self (archive footage) 
Heights
as Diana 
Strip Search
+3
as Karen Moore 
Serving in Silence - The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story
+3
as Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer 
Immediate Family
+4
as Linda Spector 
Discovering Hamlet
as Gertrude (archive footage) 
The Lavender Scare
as Narrator (voice) 
The Stone Boy
+2
as Ruth Hillerman 
Tom Hanks: The Nomad
+7
as Self (archive footage) 
Meeting Venus
+2
as Karin Anderson 
Gates of the Arctic
as Narrator (voice) 
Anne Frank Remembered
+4
as Diary Readings (voice) 
Brush with Fate
+3
as Cornelia Engelbrecht 
The Elephant Man
+1
as Princess Alexandra