Glenn Close
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1947-03-19
Place of Birth
Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
Glenn Close
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.
Also Known For
Mars Attacks!
Dec 13, 1996
Dangerous Liaisons
Dec 21, 1988
Hook
Apr 10, 1991
The House of the Spirits
Oct 21, 1993
Hamlet
Dec 19, 1990
102 Dalmatians
Oct 07, 2000
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
May 27, 2000
Hoodwinked!
Dec 16, 2005
Fatal Attraction
Sep 18, 1987
The Natural
May 11, 1984
The World According to Garp
Jul 23, 1982
Evening
Jun 09, 2007
The Safety of Objects
Oct 25, 2002
101 Dalmatians
Nov 27, 1996
Jagged Edge
Oct 04, 1985
The Big Chill
Sep 30, 1983
Cookie's Fortune
Mar 24, 1999
The Paper
Mar 18, 1994
Mary Reilly
Feb 23, 1996
Le Divorce
Aug 08, 2003
The Summer Book
Jan 31, 2025
Air Force One
Jul 25, 1997
The Stepford Wives
Jun 10, 2004
537 Votes
Oct 21, 2020
The Chumscrubber
Jun 08, 2005
Heights
Jul 15, 2005
Strip Search
Apr 27, 2004
Tarzan
Jun 17, 1999
Nine Lives
Sep 02, 2005
In the Gloaming
Apr 20, 1997
Sarah, Plain and Tall
Feb 03, 1991
Skylark
Feb 07, 1993
The Lion in Winter
Dec 26, 2003
Reversal of Fortune
Oct 19, 1990
Serving in Silence - The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story
Jan 23, 1995
The Deliverance
Aug 16, 2024
South Pacific
Mar 26, 2001
Albert Nobbs
Dec 21, 2011
Brush with Fate
Jan 01, 2003
Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End
Nov 20, 1999
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Feb 04, 2012
Paradise Road
Feb 11, 1997
Immediate Family
Oct 27, 1989
Maxie
Sep 27, 1985
Love, Marilyn
May 30, 2013
Orphan Train
Dec 22, 1979
Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall
Jun 10, 1992
Too Far to Go
Mar 12, 1979
The Stone Boy
Apr 04, 1984
My Dog: An Unconditional Love Story
Oct 17, 2009
Guardians of the Galaxy
Jul 30, 2014
Meeting Venus
Sep 18, 1991
Something About Amelia
Jan 09, 1984
Heart of Stone
Aug 09, 2023
Tom Hanks: The Nomad
May 20, 2023
Discovering Hamlet
Nov 01, 2011
Low Down
Jan 19, 2014
Tarzan II
Jun 13, 2005
5 to 7
Apr 19, 2014
The Elephant Man
Jan 04, 1982
Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil
Apr 29, 2011
What I Want My Words to Do to You
Dec 16, 2003
Baby
Oct 08, 2000
Baba Yaga
Jan 14, 2021
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
Jan 20, 2001
Anesthesia
Jan 08, 2016
Not My Life
Oct 28, 2011
Gabon The Last Eden
May 11, 2007
The Divine Garbo
Dec 03, 1990
A Look Through His Lens
Jan 06, 2024
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
Sep 21, 2024
Back in Action
Jan 15, 2025
Lincoln
Dec 26, 1992
The Wife
Aug 02, 2018
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
May 26, 1988
In Search of the Jaguar
Nov 26, 2003
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
Mar 01, 2005
Boulevard! A Hollywood Story
Aug 16, 2021
Gates of the Arctic
May 29, 2008
The Girl with All the Gifts
Sep 23, 2016
The Great Gilly Hopkins
Oct 05, 2015
Encore
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Nov 26, 2025
Father Figures
Dec 21, 2017
Anne Frank Remembered
Jun 08, 1995
SNL: The Best of Adam Sandler
Oct 26, 1999
Warcraft
May 25, 2016
Crooked House
Sep 06, 2017
What Happened to Monday
Aug 18, 2017
In & Out
Sep 10, 1997
Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary
Sep 24, 1989
Welcome to Hollywood
Oct 27, 2000
The Wilde Wedding
Sep 15, 2017
The Big Chill: A Reunion
Jan 26, 1999
Peter Matthiessen: No Boundaries
Jan 01, 2009
Six by Sondheim
Dec 09, 2013
Andrew Lloyd Webber: Tribute to a Superstar
Mar 28, 2018
The Lady with the Torch
Jan 08, 1999
Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Royal Albert Hall Celebration
Jun 06, 1998
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
Mar 17, 1996
Let's Dance
Dec 06, 2018
Stones for Ibarra
Jan 29, 1988
Hollywood's Greatest Villains
Dec 01, 2005
Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music
May 16, 1990
The Lavender Scare
Jun 07, 2019
Sunset Boulevard: A Look Back
Jul 01, 2002
The Rules of the Game
Apr 30, 1975
Hillbilly Elegy
Nov 09, 2020
Four Good Days
Apr 30, 2021
Electric Blue 29
Jan 01, 1988
Tracking 'The Lion in Winter'
Apr 20, 2004
In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
Oct 30, 2020
Swan Song
Dec 17, 2021
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
Oct 08, 2020
Brothers
Oct 10, 2024
Casting By
Nov 01, 2012
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
Aug 14, 2021
An Amazin Era: Revised and Updated
Nov 01, 1989
Rabbit Ears - The Emperor and the Nightingale
Sep 01, 1987
Show of Titles
Jun 13, 2021
An Amazin' Era
Jul 01, 1986
Animal Farm
Nov 14, 2025
Glenn Close, l'art de la transformation
Apr 06, 2025
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
Nov 18, 2026
Rabbit Ears: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Oct 10, 1988
The Plague Monkeys
This Morning
Oct 03, 1988
Inside the Actors Studio
Aug 14, 1994
The Simpsons
Dec 17, 1989
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Sep 08, 2003
The Shield
Mar 12, 2002
The View
Aug 11, 1997
Finding Your Roots
Mar 24, 2012
C à vous
Sep 07, 2009
Will & Grace
Sep 21, 1998
MADtv
Oct 14, 1995
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Dec 24, 1951
Damages
Jul 24, 2007
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Sep 13, 1993
Desus & Mero
Feb 21, 2019
Pebble Mill
Oct 14, 1991
The Oscars
Mar 19, 1953
Saturday Night Live
Oct 11, 1975
The West Wing
Sep 22, 1999
Tony Awards
Apr 01, 1956
Wetten, dass..?
Feb 14, 1981
Celebrity IOU
Apr 13, 2020
Tony Awards
Apr 01, 1956
The Graham Norton Show
Feb 22, 2007
Tehran
Jun 22, 2020
The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window
Jan 28, 2022
American Experience
Oct 04, 1988
Sea Oak
Nov 10, 2017
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Sep 08, 2015
Tony Awards
Apr 01, 1956
Tony Awards
Apr 01, 1956
Leute heute
Jul 23, 1997
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Dec 21, 2014
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Dec 24, 1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Dec 24, 1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Dec 24, 1951
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Feb 25, 2014
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Jun 10, 1996
Ellen
Mar 29, 1994
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Feb 17, 2014
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Aug 02, 2015
Goldene Kamera
Feb 03, 1984
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Apr 27, 2014
3Below: Tales of Arcadia
Dec 21, 2018
Tony Awards
Apr 01, 1956
Standing By
Family Guy
Jan 31, 1999
Please Turn the Page
Apr 20, 1977
All's Fair
Nov 04, 2025
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Mar 02, 2009
Golden Globe Awards
Jan 20, 1944
Great Performances
Jan 28, 1971
Great Performances
Jan 28, 1971
Tony Awards
Apr 01, 1956
Tony Awards
Apr 01, 1956
Marcians
Nov 16, 2017
Golden Globe Awards
Jan 20, 1944
Golden Globe Awards
Jan 20, 1944
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Jul 16, 2009
Tony Awards
Apr 01, 1956
Tony Awards
Apr 01, 1956