Glenn Close
Acting
Born: March 19, 1947 (age 79) · Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
Highest Rated
Biography
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.
Known for
Guardians of the Galaxy
2014
The Simpsons
1989
Cruella
2021
Tarzan
1999
Warcraft
2016
What Happened to Monday
2017
Mars Attacks!
1996
Hook
1991
Family Guy
1999
101 Dalmatians
1996
Air Force One
1997
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
2025
Photos (11)
Movies (94)
Air Force One
Kathryn Bennett
Fatal Attraction
Alex Forrest
Back in Action
Ginny
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Martha Delacroix
101 Dalmatians
Cruella de Vil
102 Dalmatians
Cruella de Vil
Tarzan
Kala (voice)
Guardians of the Galaxy
Nova Prime
La bola negra
Isabelle Durand
The Deliverance
Alberta Jackson
In & Out
Glenn Close (uncredited)
The Wife
Joan Castleman
Hook
Gutless
Swan Song
Dr. Eve Scott
Hoodwinked!
Granny (voice)
Father Figures
Helen Baxter
The Big Chill
Sarah Cooper
Heart of Stone
King of Diamonds
The House of the Spirits
Ferula Trueba
Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil
Granny (voice)
What Happened to Monday
Nicolette Cayman
Four Good Days
Deb
The Girl with All the Gifts
Dr. Caroline Caldwell
The Stepford Wives
Claire Wellington
Warcraft
Alodi (uncredited)
The Paper
Alicia Clark
Dangerous Liaisons
Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil
Mars Attacks!
Marsha Dale
The Great Gilly Hopkins
Nonnie Hopkins
Hillbilly Elegy
Mamaw
The Natural
Iris Gaines
Animal Farm
Frieda Pilkington (voice)
Jagged Edge
Teddy Barnes
Crooked House
Lady Edith de Haviland
The World According to Garp
Jenny Fields
Tarzan II
Kala (voice)
Reversal of Fortune
Sunny von Bülow / Narrator
The Safety of Objects
Esther Gold
Mary Reilly
Mrs. Farraday
The Wilde Wedding
Eve Wilde
Albert Nobbs
Albert Nobbs
Le Divorce
Olivia Pace
5 to 7
Arlene Bloom
Hamlet
Gertrude
Brothers
Cath Munger
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Miss Jane Porter (voice) (uncredited)
Nine Lives
Maggie
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
(archive footage)
The Chumscrubber
Carrie Johnson
Evening
Mrs. Wittenborn
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
Dr. Elaine Keener (segments "This is Dr. Keener" and "Fantasies about Rebecca")
South Pacific
Nellie Forbush
Cookie's Fortune
Camille Dixon
The Summer Book
Grandmother
The Green Fog
2018
The Lion in Winter
Eleanor of Aquitaine
SNL: The Best of Adam Sandler
Gina (archive footage) (uncredited)
Orphan Train
Jessica
Anesthesia
Marcia Zarrow
Immediate Family
Linda Spector
Show of Titles
"Dance a Little Closer" Performer
Paradise Road
Adrienne Pargiter
The Lavender Scare
Narrator (voice)
Anne Frank Remembered
Diary Readings (voice)
Low Down
Gram
Something About Amelia
Gail Bennett
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
Arvella Whipple
Meeting Venus
Karin Anderson
Let's Dance
Segment: "Night Shift"
Sarah, Plain and Tall
Sarah Wheaton
Welcome to Hollywood
Glenn Close
Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End
Sarah Witting
Baba Yaga
Chief (voice)
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
Roy Cohn
Too Far to Go
Rebecca Kuehn
Skylark
Sarah Witting
Serving in Silence - The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story
Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer
The Stone Boy
Ruth Hillerman
Discovering Hamlet
Gertrude (archive footage)
Brush with Fate
Cornelia Engelbrecht
Gates of the Arctic
Narrator (voice)
Strip Search
Karen Moore
In the Gloaming
Janet
The Elephant Man
Princess Alexandra
Heights
Diana
Gabon The Last Eden
Narrator
The Rules of the Game
Neighbor
In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
Cruella de Vil
Maxie
Jan / Maxie
Not My Life
Narrator (voice)
Baby
Adult Sophie (Voice)
Electric Blue 29
(archive footage)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Narrator (voice)
Stones for Ibarra
Sara Everton
TV Shows (18)
The Simpsons
Mona Simpson (voice) · 13 eps
Family Guy
Glenn Close (voice) · 1 eps
The West Wing
Evelyn Baker Lang · 1 eps
Will & Grace
Fannie Lieber · 1 eps
The Shield
Captain Monica Rawling · 13 eps
Great Performances
Neighbor · 1 eps
Damages
Patty Hewes · 59 eps
Tony Awards
Hillary Clinton · 1 eps
All's Fair
Dina Standish · 13 eps
Ellen
Glenn Close · 1 eps
3Below: Tales of Arcadia
Mother (voice) · 26 eps
Tehran
Marjan Montazeri · 8 eps
The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window
The Woman in Seat 2A (uncredited) · 1 eps
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Sara Everton · 1 eps
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Sarah Wheaton · 1 eps
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Sarah · 1 eps
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Cornelia Englebrecht · 1 eps
Sea Oak
Aunt Bernie · 1 eps
Self / Appearances (69)
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest · 1 eps
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self · 1 eps
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self · 1 eps
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest · 2 eps
The View
Self · 3 eps
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host · 2 eps
The Graham Norton Show
Self · 3 eps
Leute heute
Self · 2 eps
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Self · 1 eps
Great Performances
Self - Host · 2 eps
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest · 1 eps
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee · 5 eps
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Presenter/Nominee · 1 eps
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Presenter · 2 eps
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self · 2 eps
Tony Awards
Self - Host · 2 eps
Tony Awards
Self - Audience Member · 1 eps
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee · 1 eps
Tony Awards
Self - Winner · 1 eps
Tony Awards
Self - Presenter · 5 eps
Tony Awards
Self - Host / Performer / Winner · 1 eps
Tony Awards
Self (archive footage) · 2 eps
American Experience
Self - Narrator (voice) · 1 eps
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self · 2 eps
Wetten, dass..?
Self · 1 eps
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Self · 1 eps
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Self - Guest · 1 eps
C à vous
Self · 1 eps
The Oscars
Self · 6 eps
Finding Your Roots
Self · 1 eps
Desus & Mero
Self · 1 eps
Marcians
Self - Interviewee · 1 eps
Hollywood Squares
Self · 3 eps
Celebrity IOU
Self · 1 eps
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Self - Guest · 1 eps
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
Self
This Morning
Self - Guest · 1 eps
Glenn Close: A Feminist Force
Self
Sesame Street's 25th Birthday: A Musical Celebration
Self (segment "Monster in the Mirror")
MADtv
Self · 1 eps
537 Votes
Self (archive footage)
Boulevard! A Hollywood Story
Self (archive footage)
My Dog: An Unconditional Love Story
Self
Love, Marilyn
Self
Six by Sondheim
Self (archive footage)
Inside the Actors Studio
Self · 1 eps
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
The Fabulous Allan Carr
Self (archive footage)
Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Royal Albert Hall Celebration
Self - Performer
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
Self
Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall
Self
The Big Chill: A Reunion
Self
Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary
Self
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
Self
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
Self
Casting By
Self
Sunset Boulevard: A Look Back
Self
An Amazin Era: Revised and Updated
Self
Tarzan in Concert with Phil Collins
Self
Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music
Self
Glenn Close, l'art de la transformation
Self
Blast 'Em
Self (uncredited)
Tom Hanks: The Nomad
Self (archive footage)
Andrew Lloyd Webber: Tribute to a Superstar
Self
Hollywood's Greatest Villains
Self
What I Want My Words to Do to You
Self
The Lady with the Torch
Self - Host
The Divine Garbo
Self - Host / Narrator
An Amazin' Era
Self
Upcoming (3)
Writing (2)
Producing (13)
Cruella
Producer
All's Fair
Executive Producer
The Wilde Wedding
Executive Producer
Albert Nobbs
Producer
South Pacific
Executive Producer
The Summer Book
Producer
Sea Oak
Producer
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
Executive Producer
Sarah, Plain and Tall
Executive Producer
Journey
Executive Producer
Skylark
Executive Producer
Serving in Silence - The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story
Executive Producer
Baby
Executive Producer