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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
March 19, 1947
Place of Birth
Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
Also Known As
- Glenda Veronica Close
Glenn Close
4.2 Popularity
Biography
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
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Drusilla Sickle
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
2026
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The Black Ball
2026
0.0
Frieda Pilkington (voice)
Animal Farm
2026
7.3
Martha Delacroix
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
2025
4.6
Dina Standish
All's Fair
2025
0.0
Self - (archive footage)
Glenn Close: A Feminist Force
2025
6.3
Self
Glenn Close, l'art de la transformation
2025
7.3
Grandmother
The Summer Book
2025
6.4
Ginny
Back in Action
2025
6.0
Cath Munger
Brothers
2024
Credits
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
as Drusilla Sickle
2026
0.0
The Black Ball
2026
0.0
Animal Farm
as Frieda Pilkington (voice)
2026
0.0
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
as Martha Delacroix
2025
7.3
All's Fair
as Dina Standish
2025
4.6
Glenn Close: A Feminist Force
as Self - (archive footage)
2025
0.0
Glenn Close, l'art de la transformation
as Self
2025
6.3
The Summer Book
as Grandmother
2025
7.3
Back in Action
as Ginny
2025
6.4
Brothers
as Cath Munger
2024
6.0
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
as Self
2024
8.1
The Deliverance
as Alberta Jackson
2024
6.0
🎬
A Look Through His Lens
as Self
2024
0.0
Heart of Stone
as King of Diamonds
2023
6.8
Tom Hanks: The Nomad
as Self (archive footage)
2023
5.5
The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window
as The Woman in Seat 2A (uncredited)
2022
6.6
Swan Song
as Dr. Eve Scott
2021
7.1
Boulevard! A Hollywood Story
as Self (archive footage)
2021
6.2
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
as Self
2021
0.0
Show of Titles
as "Dance a Little Closer" Performer
2021
0.0
Four Good Days
as Deb
2021
6.8
Baba Yaga
as Chief (voice)
2021
0.0
Hillbilly Elegy
as Bonnie "Mamaw" Vance
2020
6.7
In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
as Cruella de Vil
2020
7.1
537 Votes
as Self (archive footage)
2020
7.1
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
as Roy Cohn
2020
10.0
Tehran
as Marjan Montazeri
2020
7.5
Celebrity IOU
as Self
2020
6.6
The Lavender Scare
as Narrator (voice)
2019
5.6
Desus & Mero
as Self
2019
5.1
3Below: Tales of Arcadia
as Mother (voice)
2018
7.5
Let's Dance
as Segment: "Night Shift"
2018
6.1
The Wife
as Joan Castleman
2018
7.1
Andrew Lloyd Webber: Tribute to a Superstar
as Self
2018
6.0
Father Figures
as Helen Baxter
2017
5.8
Marcians
as Self - Interviewee
2017
0.0
Sea Oak
as Aunt Bernie
2017
6.4
The Wilde Wedding
as Eve Wilde
2017
5.1
Crooked House
as Lady Edith de Haviland
2017
6.4
What Happened to Monday
as Nicolette Cayman
2017
7.2
The Girl with All the Gifts
as Dr. Caroline Caldwell
2016
6.6
Warcraft
as Alodi (uncredited)
2016
6.4
Anesthesia
as Marcia Zarrow
2016
5.7
The Great Gilly Hopkins
as Nonnie Hopkins
2015
6.6
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
2015
6.2
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
as Self
2015
6.2
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
2014
4.6
Guardians of the Galaxy
as Nova Prime
2014
7.9
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
as Self
2014
7.8
5 to 7
as Arlene Bloom
2014
7.1
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
2014
5.3
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
2014
5.9
Low Down
as Gram
2014
5.5
Six by Sondheim
as Self (archive footage)
2013
7.1
Love, Marilyn
as Self
2013
6.6
Casting By
as Self
2012
6.9
Finding Your Roots
as Self
2012
6.4
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)
2012
7.6
Albert Nobbs
as Albert Nobbs
2011
6.3
Discovering Hamlet
as Gertrude (archive footage)
2011
7.0
Not My Life
as Narrator (voice)
2011
0.0
Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil
as Granny (voice)
2011
5.1
My Dog: An Unconditional Love Story
as Self
2009
8.5
C à vous
as Self
2009
6.1
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
2009
5.1
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
as Self - Guest
2009
6.1
🎬
Peter Matthiessen: No Boundaries
as Self - Hostess
2009
0.0
Gates of the Arctic
as Narrator (voice)
2008
0.0
Damages
as Patty Hewes
2007
7.4
Evening
as Mrs. Wittenborn
2007
5.8
Gabon The Last Eden
as Narrator
2007
8.0
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2007
7.2
Hoodwinked!
as Granny (voice)
2005
6.3
Hollywood's Greatest Villains
as Self
2005
10.0
Nine Lives
as Maggie
2005
6.0
Heights
as Diana
2005
6.3
Tarzan II
as Kala (voice)
2005
6.1
The Chumscrubber
as Carrie Johnson
2005
6.5
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
2005
10.0
The Stepford Wives
as Claire Wellington
2004
5.7
Strip Search
as Karen Moore
2004
6.2
🎬
Tracking 'The Lion in Winter'
as Self
2004
0.0
The Lion in Winter
as Eleanor of Aquitaine
2003
5.9
What I Want My Words to Do to You
as Self
2003
7.2
🎬
In Search of the Jaguar
as Narrator
2003
8.0
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
as Self
2003
5.6
Le Divorce
as Olivia Pace
2003
5.0
Brush with Fate
as Cornelia Engelbrecht
2003
5.8
The Safety of Objects
as Esther Gold
2002
6.4
Sunset Boulevard: A Look Back
as Self
2002
9.0
The Shield
as Captain Monica Rawling
2002
8.1
South Pacific
as Nellie Forbush
2001
4.9
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
as Arvella Whipple
2001
5.3
Welcome to Hollywood
as Glenn Close
2000
3.8
Baby
as Adult Sophie (voice)
2000
7.0
102 Dalmatians
as Cruella de Vil
2000
5.5
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
as Dr. Elaine Keener (segments "This is Dr. Keener" and "Fantasies about Rebecca")
2000
5.8
Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End
as Sarah Witting
1999
7.4
SNL: The Best of Adam Sandler
as Gina (archive footage) (uncredited)
1999
6.8
The West Wing
as Evelyn Baker Lang
1999
8.2
Tarzan
as Kala (voice)
1999
7.4
Cookie's Fortune
as Camille Dixon
1999
6.3
Family Guy
as Glenn Close (voice)
1999
7.4
The Big Chill: A Reunion
as Self
1999
4.5
The Lady with the Torch
as Self - Host
1999
0.0
Will & Grace
as Fannie Lieber
1998
6.8
Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Royal Albert Hall Celebration
as Self - Performer
1998
6.7
In & Out
as Glenn Close
1997
6.5
The View
as Self
1997
4.3
Air Force One
as Kathryn Bennett
1997
6.5
🎬
Leute heute
as Self
1997
4.8
In the Gloaming
as Janet
1997
5.9
Paradise Road
as Adrienne Pargiter
1997
6.4
Mars Attacks!
as Marsha Dale
1996
6.4
101 Dalmatians
as Cruella de Vil
1996
5.9
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
as Self - Guest
1996
3.9
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
as Self
1996
10.0
Mary Reilly
as Mrs. Farraday
1996
5.8
MADtv
as Self
1995
7.0
Anne Frank Remembered
as Diary Readings (voice)
1995
7.7
Serving in Silence - The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story
as Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer
1995
5.4
Inside the Actors Studio
as Self
1994
7.5
Ellen
as Glenn Close
1994
6.1
The Paper
as Alicia Clark
1994
6.6
Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration
as Self(segment "Monster in the Mirror")
1993
6.0
The House of the Spirits
as Ferula Trueba
1993
6.9
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
1993
7.2
Skylark
as Sarah Witting
1993
7.0
🎬
Lincoln
as Mary Todd Lincoln (voice)
1992
6.8
Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall
as Self
1992
9.0
🎬
Pebble Mill
as Self
1991
3.1
Meeting Venus
as Karin Anderson
1991
5.7
Hook
as Gutless
1991
6.8
Sarah, Plain and Tall
as Sarah Wheaton
1991
7.1
Hamlet
as Gertrude
1990
6.6
The Divine Garbo
as Self - Host / Narrator
1990
0.0
Reversal of Fortune
as Sunny von Bülow / Narrator
1990
6.6
Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music
as Self
1990
10.0
The Simpsons
as Mona Simpson (voice)
1989
8.0
An Amazin Era: Revised and Updated
as Self
1989
0.0
Immediate Family
as Linda Spector
1989
5.8
Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary
as Self
1989
7.6
Dangerous Liaisons
as Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil
1988
7.2
American Experience
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1988
6.9
This Morning
as Self - Guest
1988
5.2
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
as Narrator (voice)
1988
6.0
Stones for Ibarra
as Sara Everton
1988
0.0
Electric Blue 29
as (archive footage)
1988
0.0
Gandahar
as Ambisextra (voice: English version)
1987
6.9
Fatal Attraction
as Alexandra "Alex" Forrest
1987
6.8
🎬
Rabbit Ears - The Emperor and the Nightingale
as Narrator (voice)
1987
0.0
An Amazin' Era
as Self
1986
0.0
Jagged Edge
as Teddy Barnes
1985
6.3
Maxie
as Jan / Maxie
1985
4.9
The Natural
as Iris Gaines
1984
6.9
The Stone Boy
as Ruth Hillerman
1984
6.9
🎬
Goldene Kamera
as Self
1984
5.7
Something About Amelia
as Gail Bennett
1984
5.5
The Big Chill
as Sarah Cooper
1983
6.9
The World According to Garp
as Jenny Fields
1982
6.7
The Elephant Man
as Princess Alexandra
1982
5.6
Wetten, dass..?
as Self
1981
5.3
Orphan Train
as Jessica
1979
4.8
Too Far to Go
as Rebecca Kuehn
1979
2.0
🎬
Please Turn the Page
as Self
1977
6.0
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
1975
7.0
The Rules of the Game
as Neighbor
1975
0.0
Great Performances
as Neighbor
1971
5.8
Great Performances
as Self - Host
1971
5.8
Tony Awards
as Self - Presenter
1956
5.9
Tony Awards
as Self (archive footage)
1956
5.9
Tony Awards
as Self - Host/Performer/Winner
1956
5.9
Tony Awards
as Self - Audience Member
1956
5.9
Tony Awards
as Self - Host
1956
5.9
Tony Awards
as Hillary Clinton
1956
5.9
Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee
1956
5.9
Tony Awards
as Self - Winner
1956
5.9
Tony Awards
as Self - Host/Winner
1956
5.9
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Sara Everton
1951
8.6
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Sarah Wheaton
1951
8.6
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Sarah
1951
8.6
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Cornelia Englebrecht
1951
8.6
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
1944
7.2
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Presenter/Nominee
1944
7.2
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Presenter
1944
7.2
🎬
Encore
as Marie
N/A
0.0
🎬
Standing By
N/A
0.0
Sunset Boulevard
as Norma Desmond
N/A
0.0
🎬
Maud
as Maud Oldcastle
N/A
0.0
🎬
The Plague Monkeys
as Narrator
N/A
0.0