Glenn Close

Actor

Born March 19, 1947 in Greenwich, Connecticut, USA

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).

Filmography

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The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping

Drusilla Sickle

Coming soon

La Bola Negra

Isabelle Durand

Sunset Boulevard

Norma Desmond

Animal Farm

Frieda Pilkington (voice)

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

Martha Delacroix

All's Fair

Dina Standish

Glenn Close: A Feminist Force

Self - (archive footage)

Glenn Close, l'art de la transformation

Self

The Summer Book

Grandmother

Hollywood Squares

Self

Back in Action

Ginny

Brothers

Cath Munger

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

Self

The Deliverance

Alberta Jackson

Heart of Stone

King of Diamonds

Tom Hanks: The Nomad

Self (archive footage)

The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window

The Woman in Seat 2A (uncredited)

Swan Song

Dr. Eve Scott

Boulevard! A Hollywood Story

Self (archive footage)

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age

Self

Show of Titles

"Dance a Little Closer" Performer

Cruella

Four Good Days

Deb

Baba Yaga

Chief (voice)

Hillbilly Elegy

Bonnie "Mamaw" Vance

In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover

Cruella de Vil

537 Votes

Self (archive footage)

The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America

Roy Cohn

Tehran

Marjan Montazeri

Celebrity IOU

Self

The Lavender Scare

Narrator (voice)

Desus & Mero

Self

3Below: Tales of Arcadia

Mother (voice)

Let's Dance

Segment: "Night Shift"

Andrew Lloyd Webber: Tribute to a Superstar

Self

Father Figures

Helen Baxter

Marcians

Self - Interviewee

Sea Oak

Aunt Bernie

The Wilde Wedding

Eve Wilde

Crooked House

Lady Edith de Haviland

What Happened to Monday

Nicolette Cayman

The Wife

Joan Castleman

The Fabulous Allan Carr

Self (archive)

The Girl with All the Gifts

Dr. Caroline Caldwell

Warcraft

Alodi (uncredited)

Anesthesia

Marcia Zarrow

The Great Gilly Hopkins

Nonnie Hopkins

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Self - Guest

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

Self

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

Self

Guardians of the Galaxy

Nova Prime

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

Self

5 to 7

Arlene Bloom

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Self

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Self

Low Down

Gram

Six by Sondheim

Self (archive footage)

Love, Marilyn

Self

Casting By

Self

Finding Your Roots

Self

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

(archive footage)

Albert Nobbs

Discovering Hamlet

Gertrude (archive footage)

Not My Life

Narrator (voice)

Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil

Granny (voice)

My Dog: An Unconditional Love Story

Self

C à vous

Self

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

Self - Guest

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

Self - Guest

Gates of the Arctic

Narrator (voice)

Damages

Patty Hewes

Evening

Mrs. Wittenborn

Gabon The Last Eden

Narrator

The Graham Norton Show

Self

Hoodwinked!

Granny (voice)

Hollywood's Greatest Villains

Self

Nine Lives

Maggie

Heights

Diana

Tarzan II

Kala (voice)

The Chumscrubber

Carrie Johnson

Nos Bastidores de Hollywood

Self (archive footage)

The Stepford Wives

Claire Wellington

Strip Search

Karen Moore

The Lion in Winter

Eleanor of Aquitaine

What I Want My Words to Do to You

Self

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

Self

Le Divorce

Olivia Pace

Brush with Fate

Cornelia Engelbrecht

The Safety of Objects

Esther Gold

Sunset Boulevard: A Look Back

Self

The Shield

Captain Monica Rawling

South Pacific

Nellie Forbush

The Ballad of Lucy Whipple

Arvella Whipple

Welcome to Hollywood

Glenn Close

Baby

Adult Sophie (Voice)

102 Dalmatians

Cruella de Vil

Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her

Dr. Elaine Keener (segments "This is Dr. Keener" and "Fantasies about Rebecca")

Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End

Sarah Witting

SNL: The Best of Adam Sandler

Gina (archive footage) (uncredited)

The West Wing

Evelyn Baker Lang

Tarzan in Concert with Phil Collins

Self

Tarzan

Kala (voice)

Cookie's Fortune

Camille Dixon

Family Guy

Glenn Close (voice)

The Big Chill: A Reunion

Self

The Lady with the Torch

Self - Host

Will & Grace

Fannie Lieber

Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Royal Albert Hall Celebration

Self - Performer

In & Out

Glenn Close

The View

Self

Air Force One

Kathryn Bennett

Leute heute

Self

In the Gloaming

Janet

Paradise Road

Adrienne Pargiter

Mars Attacks!

Marsha Dale

101 Dalmatians

Cruella de Vil

The Rosie O'Donnell Show

Self - Guest

The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful

Self

Mary Reilly

Mrs. Farraday

Journey

MADtv

Self

Anne Frank Remembered

Diary Readings (voice)

Serving in Silence - The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story

Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer

Inside the Actors Studio

Self

Ellen

Glenn Close

The Paper

Alicia Clark

Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration

Self (segment "Monster in the Mirror")

The House of the Spirits

Ferula Trueba

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Self - Guest

Skylark

Sarah Witting

Blast 'Em

Self (uncredited)

Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall

Self

Meeting Venus

Karin Anderson

Hook

Gutless

Sarah, Plain and Tall

Sarah Wheaton

Hamlet

Gertrude

The Divine Garbo

Self - Host / Narrator

Reversal of Fortune

Sunny von Bülow / Narrator

Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music

Self

The Simpsons

Mona Simpson (voice)

An Amazin Era: Revised and Updated

Self

Immediate Family

Linda Spector

Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary

Self

Dangerous Liaisons

Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil

American Experience

Self - Narrator (voice)

This Morning

Self - Guest

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Narrator (voice)

Stones for Ibarra

Sara Everton

Electric Blue 29

(archive footage)

Fatal Attraction

Alexandra "Alex" Forrest

An Amazin' Era

Self

Jagged Edge

Teddy Barnes

Maxie

Jan / Maxie

The Natural

Iris Gaines

The Stone Boy

Ruth Hillerman

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

Miss Jane Porter (voice) (uncredited)

Something About Amelia

Gail Bennett

The Big Chill

Sarah Cooper

The World According to Garp

Jenny Fields

The Elephant Man

Princess Alexandra

Wetten, dass..?

Self

Orphan Train

Jessica

Too Far to Go

Rebecca Kuehn

Saturday Night Live

Self - Host

The Rules of the Game

Neighbor

Great Performances

Neighbor

Tony Awards

Self - Host

The Oscars

Self

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Sara Everton

Golden Globe Awards

Self - Nominee