Acting
Glenn Close
Glenn 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
Animal Farm
Film · 2026
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
Film · 2026
La bola negra
Film · 2026
The Summer Book
Film · 2025
Back in Action
Film · 2025
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Film · 2025
Glenn Close, l'art de la transformation
Film · 2025
Glenn Close: A Feminist Force
Film · 2025
All's Fair
Series · 2025
Hollywood Squares
Series · 2025
The Deliverance
Film · 2024
A Look Through His Lens
Film · 2024
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
Film · 2024
Brothers
Film · 2024
Heart of Stone
Film · 2023
Tom Hanks: The Nomad
Film · 2023
The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window
Series · 2022
Baba Yaga
Film · 2021
Boulevard! A Hollywood Story
Film · 2021
Four Good Days
Film · 2021
Swan Song
Film · 2021
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
Film · 2021
Show of Titles
Film · 2021
537 Votes
Film · 2020
Hillbilly Elegy
Film · 2020
In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
Film · 2020
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
Film · 2020
Celebrity IOU
Series · 2020
Tehran
Series · 2020
The Lavender Scare
Film · 2019
Desus & Mero
Series · 2019
Andrew Lloyd Webber: Tribute to a Superstar
Film · 2018
Let's Dance
Film · 2018
The Green Fog
Film · 2018
3Below: Tales of Arcadia
Series · 2018
The Wife
Film · 2017
Father Figures
Film · 2017
Crooked House
Film · 2017
What Happened to Monday
Film · 2017
The Wilde Wedding
Film · 2017
The Fabulous Allan Carr
Film · 2017
Sea Oak
Series · 2017
Marcians
Series · 2017
Anesthesia
Film · 2016
The Girl with All the Gifts
Film · 2016
Warcraft
Film · 2016
The Great Gilly Hopkins
Film · 2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Series · 2015
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Series · 2015
Guardians of the Galaxy
Film · 2014
Low Down
Film · 2014
5 to 7
Film · 2014
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Series · 2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Series · 2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Series · 2014
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Series · 2014
Love, Marilyn
Film · 2013
Six by Sondheim
Film · 2013
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Film · 2012
Casting By
Film · 2012
Finding Your Roots
Series · 2012
Albert Nobbs
Film · 2011
Discovering Hamlet
Film · 2011
Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil
Film · 2011
Not My Life
Film · 2011
My Dog: An Unconditional Love Story
Film · 2009
Peter Matthiessen: No Boundaries
Film · 2009
C à vous
Series · 2009
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Series · 2009
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Series · 2009
Gates of the Arctic
Film · 2008
Evening
Film · 2007
Gabon The Last Eden
Film · 2007
Damages
Series · 2007
The Graham Norton Show
Series · 2007
Hoodwinked!
Film · 2005
The Chumscrubber
Film · 2005
Heights
Film · 2005
Nine Lives
Film · 2005
Tarzan II
Film · 2005
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
Film · 2005
Hollywood's Greatest Villains
Film · 2005
The Stepford Wives
Film · 2004
Strip Search
Film · 2004
Tracking 'The Lion in Winter'
Film · 2004
Le Divorce
Film · 2003
The Lion in Winter
Film · 2003
Brush with Fate
Film · 2003
What I Want My Words to Do to You
Film · 2003
In Search of the Jaguar
Film · 2003
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Series · 2003
The Safety of Objects
Film · 2002
Sunset Boulevard: A Look Back
Film · 2002
The Shield
Series · 2002
South Pacific
Film · 2001
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
Film · 2001
102 Dalmatians
Film · 2000
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
Film · 2000
Welcome to Hollywood
Film · 2000
Baby
Film · 2000
Cookie's Fortune
Film · 1999
Tarzan
Film · 1999
Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End
Film · 1999
SNL: The Best of Adam Sandler
Film · 1999
The Big Chill: A Reunion
Film · 1999
The Lady with the Torch
Film · 1999
Tarzan in Concert with Phil Collins
Film · 1999
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
Film · 1999
The West Wing
Series · 1999
Family Guy
Series · 1999
Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Royal Albert Hall Celebration
Film · 1998
Will & Grace
Series · 1998
Air Force One
Film · 1997
In the Gloaming
Film · 1997
Paradise Road
Film · 1997
In & Out
Film · 1997
The View
Series · 1997
Leute heute
Series · 1997
Mars Attacks!
Film · 1996
101 Dalmatians
Film · 1996
Mary Reilly
Film · 1996
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
Film · 1996
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Series · 1996
Serving in Silence - The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story
Film · 1995
Anne Frank Remembered
Film · 1995
MADtv
Series · 1995
The Paper
Film · 1994
Inside the Actors Studio
Series · 1994
Ellen
Series · 1994
The House of the Spirits
Film · 1993
Skylark
Film · 1993
Sesame Street's 25th Birthday: A Musical Celebration
Film · 1993
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Series · 1993
Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall
Film · 1992
Lincoln
Film · 1992
Blast 'Em
Film · 1992
Hook
Film · 1991
Sarah, Plain and Tall
Film · 1991
Meeting Venus
Film · 1991
Pebble Mill
Series · 1991
Hamlet
Film · 1990
Reversal of Fortune
Film · 1990
The Divine Garbo
Film · 1990
Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music
Film · 1990
Immediate Family
Film · 1989
Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary
Film · 1989
An Amazin Era: Revised and Updated
Film · 1989
The Simpsons
Series · 1989
Dangerous Liaisons
Film · 1988
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Film · 1988
Stones for Ibarra
Film · 1988
Electric Blue 29
Film · 1988
This Morning
Series · 1988
American Experience
Series · 1988
Fatal Attraction
Film · 1987
Rabbit Ears - The Emperor and the Nightingale
Film · 1987
Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?
Film · 1987
An Amazin' Era
Film · 1986
Jagged Edge
Film · 1985
Maxie
Film · 1985
The Natural
Film · 1984
The Stone Boy
Film · 1984
Something About Amelia
Film · 1984
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Film · 1984
Goldene Kamera
Series · 1984
The Big Chill
Film · 1983
The World According to Garp
Film · 1982
The Elephant Man
Film · 1982
Wetten, dass..?
Series · 1981
Orphan Train
Film · 1979
Too Far to Go
Film · 1979
Please Turn the Page
Series · 1977
The Rules of the Game
Film · 1975
Saturday Night Live
Series · 1975
Great Performances
Series · 1971
Great Performances
Series · 1971
Tony Awards
Series · 1956
Tony Awards
Series · 1956
Tony Awards
Series · 1956
Tony Awards
Series · 1956
Tony Awards
Series · 1956
Tony Awards
Series · 1956
Tony Awards
Series · 1956
Tony Awards
Series · 1956
The Oscars
Series · 1953
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Series · 1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Series · 1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Series · 1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Series · 1951
Golden Globe Awards
Series · 1944
Golden Globe Awards
Series · 1944
Golden Globe Awards
Series · 1944
Encore
Film
The Plague Monkeys
Film
Sunset Boulevard
Film
Diamonds on the Silver Screen
Film
The Midnight Library
Film
Standing By
Series
Maud
Series