Glenn Close

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).

In television, Close received her first Primetime Emmy Award nomination for her role in the film Something About Amelia (1984) and later won three—Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for portraying Margarethe Cammermeyer in the NBC film Serving in Silence (1995) and Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series twice consecutively for playing Patty Hewes in Damages (2007–2012).

On stage, Close made her Broadway debut in the play Love for Love (1974). She later won 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 for the musical Sunset Boulevard (1995). She was Tony-nominated for Barnum (1980). She returned to the Broadway stage in a 2014 revival of A Delicate Balance. In 2016, she returned to Sunset Boulevard on the West End stage, earning a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical nomination.

Close is the president of Trillium Productions and co-founder of the website FetchDog. She has made political donations in support of 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.

Known For

Guardians of the Galaxy Not in library

Guardians of the Galaxy

2014

The Simpsons Not in library

The Simpsons

1989

Tarzan Not in library

Tarzan

1999

Warcraft Not in library

Warcraft

2016

What Happened to Monday Not in library

What Happened to Monday

2017

Mars Attacks! Not in library

Mars Attacks!

1996

Hook Not in library

Hook

1991

Family Guy Not in library

Family Guy

1999

101 Dalmatians Not in library

101 Dalmatians

1996

Air Force One Not in library

Air Force One

1997

Acting

2026 Animal Farm as Frieda Pilkington (voice) In Library
2026 The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping as Drusilla Sickle
2026 The Black Ball
2025 The Summer Book as Grandmother
2025 Back in Action as Ginny
2025 Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery as Martha Delacroix
2025 Glenn Close, l'art de la transformation as Self
2025 Glenn Close: A Feminist Force as Self - (archive footage)
2025 All's Fair as Dina Standish (9 episodes)
2025 Hollywood Squares as Self (3 episodes)
2024 The Deliverance as Alberta Jackson
2024 A Look Through His Lens as Self
2024 Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story as Self
2024 Brothers as Cath Munger
2023 Heart of Stone as King of Diamonds
2023 Tom Hanks: The Nomad as Self (archive footage)
2022 The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window as The Woman in Seat 2A (uncredited) (1 episode)
2021 Baba Yaga as Chief (voice)
2021 Boulevard! A Hollywood Story as Self (archive footage)
2021 Four Good Days as Deb
2021 Swan Song as Dr. Eve Scott
2021 Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age as Self
2021 Show of Titles as "Dance a Little Closer" Performer
2020 537 Votes as Self (archive footage)
2020 Hillbilly Elegy as Bonnie "Mamaw" Vance
2020 In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover as Cruella de Vil
2020 The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America as Roy Cohn
2020 Celebrity IOU as Self (1 episode)
2020 Tehran as Marjan Montazeri (8 episodes)
2019 The Lavender Scare as Narrator (voice)
2019 Desus & Mero as Self (1 episode)
2018 Andrew Lloyd Webber: Tribute to a Superstar as Self
2018 Let's Dance as Segment: "Night Shift"
2018 3Below: Tales of Arcadia as Mother (voice) (26 episodes)
2017 The Wife as Joan Castleman
2017 Father Figures as Helen Baxter
2017 Crooked House as Lady Edith de Haviland
2017 What Happened to Monday as Nicolette Cayman
2017 The Wilde Wedding as Eve Wilde
2017 Sea Oak as Aunt Bernie (1 episode)
2017 Marcians as Self - Interviewee (1 episode)
2016 Anesthesia as Marcia Zarrow
2016 The Girl with All the Gifts as Dr. Caroline Caldwell
2016 Warcraft as Alodi (uncredited)
2015 The Great Gilly Hopkins as Nonnie Hopkins
2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self - Guest (1 episode)
2015 Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self (1 episode)
2014 Guardians of the Galaxy as Nova Prime
2014 Low Down as Gram
2014 5 to 7 as Arlene Bloom
2014 Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self (2 episodes)
2014 Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self (1 episode)
2014 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self (1 episode)
2014 Last Week Tonight with John Oliver as Self (1 episode)
2013 Love, Marilyn as Self
2013 Six by Sondheim as Self (archive footage)
2012 Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
2012 Casting By as Self
2012 Finding Your Roots as Self (1 episode)
2011 Albert Nobbs as Albert Nobbs
2011 Discovering Hamlet as Gertrude (archive footage)
2011 Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil as Granny (voice)
2011 Not My Life as Narrator (voice)
2009 My Dog: An Unconditional Love Story as Self
2009 Peter Matthiessen: No Boundaries as Self - Hostess
2009 C à vous as Self (1 episode)
2009 Late Night with Jimmy Fallon as Self - Guest (1 episode)
2009 Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest (1 episode)
2008 Gates of the Arctic as Narrator (voice)
2007 Evening as Mrs. Wittenborn
2007 Gabon The Last Eden as Narrator
2007 Damages as Patty Hewes (59 episodes)
2007 The Graham Norton Show as Self (2 episodes)
2005 Hoodwinked! as Granny (voice)
2005 The Chumscrubber as Carrie Johnson
2005 Heights as Diana
2005 Nine Lives as Maggie
2005 Tarzan II as Kala (voice)
2005 Nos Bastidores de Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
2005 Hollywood's Greatest Villains as Self
2004 The Stepford Wives as Claire Wellington
2004 Strip Search as Karen Moore
2004 Tracking 'The Lion in Winter' as Self
2003 Le Divorce as Olivia Pace
2003 The Lion in Winter as Eleanor of Aquitaine
2003 Brush with Fate as Cornelia Engelbrecht
2003 What I Want My Words to Do to You as Self
2003 In Search of the Jaguar as Narrator
2003 The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self (1 episode)
2002 The Safety of Objects as Esther Gold
2002 Sunset Boulevard: A Look Back as Self
2002 The Shield as Captain Monica Rawling (13 episodes)
2001 South Pacific as Nellie Forbush
2001 The Ballad of Lucy Whipple as Arvella Whipple
2000 102 Dalmatians as Cruella de Vil
2000 Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her as Dr. Elaine Keener (segments "This is Dr. Keener" and "Fantasies about Rebecca")
2000 Welcome to Hollywood as Glenn Close
2000 Baby as Adult Sophie (Voice)
1999 Cookie's Fortune as Camille Dixon
1999 Tarzan as Kala (voice)
1999 Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End as Sarah Witting
1999 SNL: The Best of Adam Sandler as Gina (archive footage) (uncredited)
1999 The Big Chill: A Reunion as Self
1999 The Lady with the Torch as Self - Host
1999 The West Wing as Evelyn Baker Lang (1 episode)
1999 Family Guy as Glenn Close (voice) (1 episode)
1998 Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Royal Albert Hall Celebration as Self - Performer
1998 Will & Grace as Fannie Lieber (1 episode)
1997 Air Force One as Kathryn Bennett
1997 In the Gloaming as Janet
1997 Paradise Road as Adrienne Pargiter
1997 In & Out as Glenn Close
1997 The View as Self (3 episodes)
1997 Leute heute as Self (2 episodes)
1996 Mars Attacks! as Marsha Dale
1996 101 Dalmatians as Cruella de Vil
1996 Mary Reilly as Mrs. Farraday
1996 The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful as Self
1996 The Rosie O'Donnell Show as Self - Guest (1 episode)
1995 Serving in Silence - The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story as Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer
1995 Anne Frank Remembered as Diary Readings (voice)
1995 MADtv as Self (1 episode)
1994 The Paper as Alicia Clark
1994 Inside the Actors Studio as Self (1 episode)
1994 Ellen as Glenn Close (1 episode)
1993 The House of the Spirits as Ferula Trueba
1993 Skylark as Sarah Witting
1993 Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration as Self (segment "Monster in the Mirror")
1993 Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest (1 episode)
1992 Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall as Self
1992 Lincoln as Mary Todd Lincoln (voice)
1991 Hook as Gutless
1991 Sarah, Plain and Tall as Sarah Wheaton
1991 Meeting Venus as Karin Anderson
1991 Pebble Mill as Self (1 episode)
1990 Hamlet as Gertrude
1990 Reversal of Fortune as Sunny von Bülow / Narrator
1990 The Divine Garbo as Self - Host / Narrator
1990 Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music as Self
1989 Immediate Family as Linda Spector
1989 Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary as Self
1989 An Amazin Era: Revised and Updated as Self
1989 The Simpsons as Mona Simpson (voice) (13 episodes)
1988 Dangerous Liaisons as Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil
1988 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow as Narrator (voice)
1988 Stones for Ibarra as Sara Everton
1988 Electric Blue 29 as (archive footage)
1988 This Morning as Self - Guest (1 episode)
1988 American Experience as Self - Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
1987 Fatal Attraction as Alexandra "Alex" Forrest
1987 Rabbit Ears - The Emperor and the Nightingale as Narrator (voice)
1987 Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys? as Self - Narrator
1986 An Amazin' Era as Self
1985 Jagged Edge as Teddy Barnes
1985 Maxie as Jan / Maxie
1984 The Natural as Iris Gaines
1984 The Stone Boy as Ruth Hillerman
1984 Something About Amelia as Gail Bennett
1984 Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes as Miss Jane Porter (voice) (uncredited)
1984 Goldene Kamera as Self (1 episode)
1983 The Big Chill as Sarah Cooper
1982 The World According to Garp as Jenny Fields
1982 The Elephant Man as Princess Alexandra
1981 Wetten, dass..? as Self (1 episode)
1979 Orphan Train as Jessica
1979 Too Far to Go as Rebecca Kuehn
1977 Please Turn the Page as Self (1 episode)
1975 The Rules of the Game as Neighbor
1975 Saturday Night Live as Self - Host (2 episodes)
1971 Great Performances as Neighbor (1 episode)
1971 Great Performances as Self - Host (2 episodes)
1956 Tony Awards as Self - Host (2 episodes)
1956 Tony Awards as Self - Audience Member (1 episode)
1956 Tony Awards as Self - Nominee (1 episode)
1956 Tony Awards as Self - Winner (1 episode)
1956 Tony Awards as Self - Presenter (5 episodes)
1956 Tony Awards as Self - Host / Performer / Winner (1 episode)
1956 Tony Awards as Self (archive footage) (2 episodes)
1956 Tony Awards as Hillary Clinton (1 episode)
1953 The Oscars as Self (6 episodes)
1951 Hallmark Hall of Fame as Sara Everton (1 episode)
1951 Hallmark Hall of Fame as Sarah Wheaton (1 episode)
1951 Hallmark Hall of Fame as Sarah (1 episode)
1951 Hallmark Hall of Fame as Cornelia Englebrecht (1 episode)
1944 Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee (5 episodes)
1944 Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter/Nominee (1 episode)
1944 Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter (2 episodes)
Encore as Marie
The Plague Monkeys as Narrator
Sunset Boulevard as Norma Desmond
Standing By
Maud as Maud Oldcastle (1 episode)

Writing

2011 Albert Nobbs Screenplay
2011 Albert Nobbs Lyricist

Production

2025 The Summer Book Producer
2025 All's Fair Executive Producer
2021 Cruella Producer
2017 The Wilde Wedding Executive Producer
2017 Sea Oak Producer
2011 Albert Nobbs Producer
2001 The Ballad of Lucy Whipple Executive Producer
2001 South Pacific Executive Producer
2000 Baby Executive Producer
1995 Journey Executive Producer
1995 Serving in Silence - The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story Executive Producer
1993 Skylark Executive Producer
1991 Sarah, Plain and Tall Executive Producer
Sunset Boulevard Producer
Maud Executive Producer