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.
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Fotos
Películas (139)
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
2026 · Drusilla Sickle
La Bola Negra
2026 · Isabelle Durand
Animal Farm
2026 · Frieda Pilkington (voice)
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
2025 · Martha Delacroix
Glenn Close, l'art de la transformation
2025 · Self
The Summer Book
2025 · Grandmother, Producer
Back in Action
2025 · Ginny
Brothers
2024 · Cath Munger
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
2024 · Self
The Deliverance
2024 · Alberta Jackson
A Look Through His Lens
2024 · Self
Heart of Stone
2023 · King of Diamonds
Tom Hanks: The Nomad
2023 · Self (archive footage)
Swan Song
2021 · Dr. Eve Scott
Boulevard! A Hollywood Story
2021 · Self (archive footage)
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
2021 · Self
Show of Titles
2021 · "Dance a Little Closer" Performer
Cruella
2021 · Producer
Four Good Days
2021 · Deb
Baba Yaga
2021 · Chief (voice)
Hillbilly Elegy
2020 · Mamaw
In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
2020 · Cruella de Vil
537 Votes
2020 · Self (archive footage)
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
2020 · Roy Cohn
The Lavender Scare
2019 · Narrator (voice)
Let's Dance
2018 · Segment: "Night Shift"
Andrew Lloyd Webber: Tribute to a Superstar
2018 · Self
The Green Fog
2018
Father Figures
2017 · Helen Baxter
The Wilde Wedding
2017 · Eve Wilde, Executive Producer
Crooked House
2017 · Lady Edith de Haviland
What Happened to Monday
2017 · Nicolette Cayman
The Wife
2017 · Joan Castleman
The Fabulous Allan Carr
2017 · Self (archive footage)
The Girl with All the Gifts
2016 · Dr. Caroline Caldwell
Warcraft
2016 · Alodi (uncredited)
Anesthesia
2016 · Marcia Zarrow
The Great Gilly Hopkins
2015 · Nonnie Hopkins
Guardians of the Galaxy
2014 · Nova Prime
5 to 7
2014 · Arlene Bloom
Low Down
2014 · Gram
Six by Sondheim
2013 · Self (archive footage)
Love, Marilyn
2013 · Self
Casting By
2012 · Self
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012 · (archive footage)
Albert Nobbs
2011 · Albert Nobbs, Screenplay, Producer, Lyricist
Discovering Hamlet
2011 · Gertrude (archive footage)
Not My Life
2011 · Narrator (voice)
Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil
2011 · Granny (voice)
My Dog: An Unconditional Love Story
2009 · Self
Peter Matthiessen: No Boundaries
2009 · Self - Hostess
Gates of the Arctic
2008 · Narrator (voice)
Evening
2007 · Mrs. Wittenborn
Gabon The Last Eden
2007 · Narrator
Hoodwinked!
2005 · Granny (voice)
Hollywood's Greatest Villains
2005 · Self
Nine Lives
2005 · Maggie
Heights
2005 · Diana
Tarzan II
2005 · Kala (voice)
The Chumscrubber
2005 · Carrie Johnson
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005 · Self (archive footage)
The Stepford Wives
2004 · Claire Wellington
Strip Search
2004 · Karen Moore
Tracking 'The Lion in Winter'
2004 · Self
The Lion in Winter
2003 · Eleanor of Aquitaine
What I Want My Words to Do to You
2003 · Self
In Search of the Jaguar
2003 · Narrator
Le Divorce
2003 · Olivia Pace
Brush with Fate
2003 · Cornelia Engelbrecht
The Safety of Objects
2002 · Esther Gold
Sunset Boulevard: A Look Back
2002 · Self
South Pacific
2001 · Nellie Forbush, Executive Producer
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
2001 · Arvella Whipple, Executive Producer
Welcome to Hollywood
2000 · Glenn Close
Baby
2000 · Adult Sophie (Voice), Executive Producer
102 Dalmatians
2000 · Cruella de Vil
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
2000 · Dr. Elaine Keener (segments "This is Dr. Keener" and "Fantasies about Rebecca")
Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End
1999 · Sarah Witting
SNL: The Best of Adam Sandler
1999 · Gina (archive footage) (uncredited)
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
1999 · Self
Tarzan in Concert with Phil Collins
1999 · Self
Tarzan
1999 · Kala (voice)
Cookie's Fortune
1999 · Camille Dixon
The Big Chill: A Reunion
1999 · Self
The Lady with the Torch
1999 · Self - Host
Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Royal Albert Hall Celebration
1998 · Self - Performer
In & Out
1997 · Glenn Close (uncredited)
Air Force One
1997 · Kathryn Bennett
In the Gloaming
1997 · Janet
Paradise Road
1997 · Adrienne Pargiter
Mars Attacks!
1996 · Marsha Dale
101 Dalmatians
1996 · Cruella de Vil
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
1996 · Self
Mary Reilly
1996 · Mrs. Farraday
Journey
1995 · Executive Producer
Anne Frank Remembered
1995 · Diary Readings (voice)
Serving in Silence - The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story
1995 · Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer, Executive Producer
The Paper
1994 · Alicia Clark
Sesame Street's 25th Birthday: A Musical Celebration
1993 · Self (segment "Monster in the Mirror")
The House of the Spirits
1993 · Ferula Trueba
Skylark
1993 · Sarah Witting, Executive Producer
Lincoln
1992 · Mary Todd Lincoln (voice)
Blast 'Em
1992 · Self (uncredited)
Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall
1992 · Self
Meeting Venus
1991 · Karin Anderson
Hook
1991 · Gutless
Sarah, Plain and Tall
1991 · Sarah Wheaton, Executive Producer
Hamlet
1990 · Gertrude
The Divine Garbo
1990 · Self - Host / Narrator
Reversal of Fortune
1990 · Sunny von Bülow / Narrator
Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music
1990 · Self
An Amazin Era: Revised and Updated
1989 · Self
Immediate Family
1989 · Linda Spector
Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary
1989 · Self
Dangerous Liaisons
1988 · Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
1988 · Narrator (voice)
Stones for Ibarra
1988 · Sara Everton
Electric Blue 29
1988 · (archive footage)
Fatal Attraction
1987 · Alex Forrest
Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?
1987 · Self - Narrator
Rabbit Ears - The Emperor and the Nightingale
1987 · Narrator (voice)
An Amazin' Era
1986 · Self
Jagged Edge
1985 · Teddy Barnes
Maxie
1985 · Jan / Maxie
The Natural
1984 · Iris Gaines
The Stone Boy
1984 · Ruth Hillerman
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
1984 · Miss Jane Porter (voice) (uncredited)
Something About Amelia
1984 · Gail Bennett
The Big Chill
1983 · Sarah Cooper
The World According to Garp
1982 · Jenny Fields
The Elephant Man
1982 · Princess Alexandra
Orphan Train
1979 · Jessica
Too Far to Go
1979 · Rebecca Kuehn
The Rules of the Game
1975 · Neighbor
Encore
· Marie
The Plague Monkeys
· Narrator
Sunset Boulevard
· Norma Desmond, Producer
Diamonds on the Silver Screen
· Self
The Midnight Library
· Mrs.Elm
Series (48)
All's Fair
2025 · Dina Standish, Executive Producer
Hollywood Squares
2025 · Self
The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window
2022 · The Woman in Seat 2A (uncredited)
Tehran
2020 · Marjan Montazeri
Celebrity IOU
2020 · Self
Desus & Mero
2019 · Self
3Below: Tales of Arcadia
2018 · Mother (voice)
Marcians
2017 · Self - Interviewee
Sea Oak
2017 · Aunt Bernie, Producer
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · Self - Guest
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015 · Self
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014 · Self
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
2014 · Self
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 · Self
Finding Your Roots
2012 · Self
C à vous
2009 · Self
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009 · Self - Guest
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
2009 · Self - Guest
Damages
2007 · Patty Hewes
The Graham Norton Show
2007 · Self
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003 · Self
The Shield
2002 · Captain Monica Rawling
The West Wing
1999 · Evelyn Baker Lang
Padre de Familia
1999 · Glenn Close (voice)
Will & Grace
1998 · Fannie Lieber
The View
1997 · Self
Leute heute
1997 · Self
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996 · Self - Guest
MADtv
1995 · Self
Inside the Actors Studio
1994 · Self
Ellen
1994 · Glenn Close
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993 · Self - Guest
Pebble Mill
1991 · Self
Los Simpson
1989 · Mona Simpson (voice)
American Experience
1988 · Self - Narrator (voice)
This Morning
1988 · Self - Guest
Goldene Kamera
1984 · Self
Wetten, dass..?
1981 · Self
Please Turn the Page
1977 · Self
Saturday Night Live
1975 · Self - Host
Great Performances
1971 · Neighbor, Self - Host
Tony Awards
1956 · Self - Host, Self - Audience Member, Self - Nominee, Self - Winner, Self - Presenter, Self - Host / Performer / Winner, Self (archive footage), Hillary Clinton
The Oscars
1953 · Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Sara Everton, Sarah Wheaton, Sarah, Cornelia Englebrecht
Golden Globe Awards
1944 · Self - Nominee, Self - Presenter/Nominee, Self - Presenter
Standing By
Maud
· Maud Oldcastle, Executive Producer