Glenn Close

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

189

Gender

Female

Birthday

1947-03-19 (78 years old)

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.

Known For

  • The Simpsons

    The Simpsons

  • Family Guy

    Family Guy

  • The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

    The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

  • Late Night with Seth Meyers

    Late Night with Seth Meyers

  • Saturday Night Live

    Saturday Night Live

  • Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

    Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

  • The Graham Norton Show

    The Graham Norton Show

  • Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

    Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

  • The West Wing

    The West Wing

  • The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

    The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

  • The Shield

    The Shield

  • Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

    Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

  • Golden Globe Awards

    Golden Globe Awards

  • Golden Globe Awards

    Golden Globe Awards

  • Golden Globe Awards

    Golden Globe Awards

  • The View

    The View

  • Will & Grace

    Will & Grace

  • Leute heute

    Leute heute

  • Tony Awards

    Tony Awards

  • Tony Awards

    Tony Awards

  • Tony Awards

    Tony Awards

  • Tony Awards

    Tony Awards

  • Tony Awards

    Tony Awards

  • Tony Awards

    Tony Awards

  • Tony Awards

    Tony Awards

  • Tony Awards

    Tony Awards

  • Tony Awards

    Tony Awards

  • Great Performances

    Great Performances

  • Great Performances

    Great Performances

  • All's Fair

    All's Fair

  • Ellen

    Ellen

  • Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

    Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

  • American Experience

    American Experience

  • Late Night with Conan O'Brien

    Late Night with Conan O'Brien

  • Tehran

    Tehran

  • Pebble Mill

    Pebble Mill

  • Tarzan

    Tarzan

  • Damages

    Damages

  • The Ellen DeGeneres Show

    The Ellen DeGeneres Show

  • Wetten, dass..?

    Wetten, dass..?

  • Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

    Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

  • Finding Your Roots

    Finding Your Roots

  • Back in Action

    Back in Action

  • Hoodwinked!

    Hoodwinked!

  • Brothers

    Brothers

  • The Oscars

    The Oscars

  • Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

    Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

  • Guardians of the Galaxy

    Guardians of the Galaxy

  • Goldene Kamera

    Goldene Kamera

  • Dangerous Liaisons

    Dangerous Liaisons

  • Warcraft

    Warcraft

  • What Happened to Monday

    What Happened to Monday

  • Hook

    Hook

  • The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping

    The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping

  • 101 Dalmatians

    101 Dalmatians

  • 102 Dalmatians

    102 Dalmatians

  • Tarzan II

    Tarzan II

  • Swan Song

    Swan Song

  • 3Below: Tales of Arcadia

    3Below: Tales of Arcadia

  • Heart of Stone

    Heart of Stone

  • Animal Farm

    Animal Farm

  • Desus & Mero

    Desus & Mero

  • C à vous

    C à vous

  • Mars Attacks!

    Mars Attacks!

  • Air Force One

    Air Force One

  • Hillbilly Elegy

    Hillbilly Elegy

  • Love, Marilyn

    Love, Marilyn

  • Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

    Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

  • Crooked House

    Crooked House

  • Jagged Edge

    Jagged Edge

  • Skylark

    Skylark

  • Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil

    Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil

  • Low Down

    Low Down

  • The Chumscrubber

    The Chumscrubber

  • Nine Lives

    Nine Lives

  • The House of the Spirits

    The House of the Spirits

  • Hamlet

    Hamlet

  • Mary Reilly

    Mary Reilly

  • Evening

    Evening

  • The Girl with All the Gifts

    The Girl with All the Gifts

  • Anesthesia

    Anesthesia

  • Albert Nobbs

    Albert Nobbs

  • Fatal Attraction

    Fatal Attraction

  • The Paper

    The Paper

  • In & Out

    In & Out

  • Paradise Road

    Paradise Road

  • South Pacific

    South Pacific

  • The Stepford Wives

    The Stepford Wives

  • Casting By

    Casting By

  • Le Divorce

    Le Divorce

  • The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window

    The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window

  • The Wilde Wedding

    The Wilde Wedding

  • Immediate Family

    Immediate Family

  • Four Good Days

    Four Good Days

  • The Summer Book

    The Summer Book

  • Lincoln

    Lincoln

  • The Rosie O'Donnell Show

    The Rosie O'Donnell Show

  • The Great Gilly Hopkins

    The Great Gilly Hopkins

  • Celebrity IOU

    Celebrity IOU

  • Meeting Venus

    Meeting Venus

  • Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

    Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

  • The Deliverance

    The Deliverance

  • Reversal of Fortune

    Reversal of Fortune

  • Baba Yaga

    Baba Yaga

  • Marcians

    Marcians

  • The Natural

    The Natural

  • Cookie's Fortune

    Cookie's Fortune

  • Please Turn the Page

    Please Turn the Page

  • Brush with Fate

    Brush with Fate

  • Electric Blue 29

    Electric Blue 29

  • Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Royal Albert Hall Celebration

    Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Royal Albert Hall Celebration

  • 5 to 7

    5 to 7

  • Baby

    Baby

  • Maxie

    Maxie

  • The Lion in Winter

    The Lion in Winter

  • The World According to Garp

    The World According to Garp

  • The Big Chill

    The Big Chill

  • Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall

    Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall

  • Six by Sondheim

    Six by Sondheim

  • Boulevard! A Hollywood Story

    Boulevard! A Hollywood Story

  • Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music

    Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music

  • My Dog: An Unconditional Love Story

    My Dog: An Unconditional Love Story

  • Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her

    Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her

  • Sunset Boulevard

    Sunset Boulevard

  • The Stone Boy

    The Stone Boy

  • Anne Frank Remembered

    Anne Frank Remembered

  • Father Figures

    Father Figures

  • Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary

    Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary

  • Tracking 'The Lion in Winter'

    Tracking 'The Lion in Winter'

  • The Rules of the Game

    The Rules of the Game

  • The Wife

    The Wife

  • The Safety of Objects

    The Safety of Objects

  • Sarah, Plain and Tall

    Sarah, Plain and Tall

  • Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age

    Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age

  • The Ballad of Lucy Whipple

    The Ballad of Lucy Whipple

  • Welcome to Hollywood

    Welcome to Hollywood

  • Encore

    Encore

  • Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End

    Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End

  • Hallmark Hall of Fame

    Hallmark Hall of Fame

  • Hallmark Hall of Fame

    Hallmark Hall of Fame

  • Hallmark Hall of Fame

    Hallmark Hall of Fame

  • Hallmark Hall of Fame

    Hallmark Hall of Fame

  • An Amazin' Era

    An Amazin' Era

  • Show of Titles

    Show of Titles

  • An Amazin Era: Revised and Updated

    An Amazin Era: Revised and Updated

  • Stones for Ibarra

    Stones for Ibarra

  • What I Want My Words to Do to You

    What I Want My Words to Do to You

  • The Elephant Man

    The Elephant Man

  • Heights

    Heights

  • Tom Hanks: The Nomad

    Tom Hanks: The Nomad

  • In the Gloaming

    In the Gloaming

  • The Lady with the Torch

    The Lady with the Torch

  • Let's Dance

    Let's Dance

  • MADtv

    MADtv

  • The Lavender Scare

    The Lavender Scare

  • The Black Ball

    The Black Ball

  • Sea Oak

    Sea Oak

  • Strip Search

    Strip Search

  • The Divine Garbo

    The Divine Garbo

  • 537 Votes

    537 Votes

  • Standing By

    Standing By

  • Discovering Hamlet

    Discovering Hamlet

  • This Morning

    This Morning

  • Andrew Lloyd Webber: Tribute to a Superstar

    Andrew Lloyd Webber: Tribute to a Superstar

  • Nos Bastidores de Hollywood

    Nos Bastidores de Hollywood

  • Something About Amelia

    Something About Amelia

  • Serving in Silence - The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story

    Serving in Silence - The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story

  • Inside the Actors Studio

    Inside the Actors Studio

  • Maud

    Maud

  • Orphan Train

    Orphan Train

  • SNL: The Best of Adam Sandler

    SNL: The Best of Adam Sandler

  • The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America

    The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America

  • In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover

    In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover

  • Hollywood's Greatest Villains

    Hollywood's Greatest Villains

  • The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful

    The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful

  • Too Far to Go

    Too Far to Go

  • A Look Through His Lens

    A Look Through His Lens

  • The Big Chill: A Reunion

    The Big Chill: A Reunion

  • Glenn Close, l'art de la transformation

    Glenn Close, l'art de la transformation

  • Sunset Boulevard: A Look Back

    Sunset Boulevard: A Look Back

  • Not My Life

    Not My Life

  • Gates of the Arctic

    Gates of the Arctic

  • Peter Matthiessen: No Boundaries

    Peter Matthiessen: No Boundaries

  • The Plague Monkeys

    The Plague Monkeys

  • Gabon The Last Eden

    Gabon The Last Eden

  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

    The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

  • Glenn Close: A Feminist Force

    Glenn Close: A Feminist Force

  • In Search of the Jaguar

    In Search of the Jaguar

  • Rabbit Ears - The Emperor and the Nightingale

    Rabbit Ears - The Emperor and the Nightingale