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
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Personal Info

Id

515

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

4

Gender

Female

Birthday

1947-03-19

Place of Birth

Greenwich, Connecticut, USA

Also Known As

  • Glenda Veronica Close
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    100

    Yes! Looking good!

    Known For

    Mars Attacks!

    Mars Attacks

    Dangerous Liaisons

    Dangerous Li

    Hook

    Hook

    The House of the Spirits

    The House of

    Hamlet

    Hamlet

    102 Dalmatians

    102 Dalmatia

    Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her

    Things You C

    Hoodwinked!

    Hoodwinked!

    Fatal Attraction

    Fatal Attrac

    The Natural

    The Natural

    The World According to Garp

    The World Ac

    Evening

    Evening

    The Safety of Objects

    The Safety o

    101 Dalmatians

    101 Dalmatia

    Jagged Edge

    Jagged Edge

    The Big Chill

    The Big Chil

    Cookie's Fortune

    Cookie's For

    The Paper

    The Paper

    Mary Reilly

    Mary Reilly

    Le Divorce

    Le Divorce

    The Summer Book

    The Summer B

    Air Force One

    Air Force On

    The Stepford Wives

    The Stepford

    537 Votes

    537 Votes

    The Chumscrubber

    The Chumscru

    Heights

    Heights

    Strip Search

    Strip Search

    Tarzan

    Tarzan

    Nine Lives

    Nine Lives

    In the Gloaming

    In the Gloam

    Sarah, Plain and Tall

    Sarah, Plain

    Skylark

    Skylark

    The Lion in Winter

    The Lion in

    Reversal of Fortune

    Reversal of

    Serving in Silence - The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story

    Serving in S

    The Deliverance

    The Delivera

    South Pacific

    South Pacifi

    Albert Nobbs

    Albert Nobbs

    Brush with Fate

    Brush with F

    Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End

    Sarah, Plain

    Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

    Final Cut: L

    Paradise Road

    Paradise Roa

    Immediate Family

    Immediate Fa

    Maxie

    Maxie

    Love, Marilyn

    Love, Marily

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    Orphan Train

    Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall

    Sondheim: A

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    Too Far to G

    The Stone Boy

    The Stone Bo

    My Dog: An Unconditional Love Story

    My Dog: An U

    Guardians of the Galaxy

    Guardians of

    Meeting Venus

    Meeting Venu

    Something About Amelia

    Something Ab

    Heart of Stone

    Heart of Sto

    Tom Hanks: The Nomad

    Tom Hanks: T

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    Discovering

    Low Down

    Low Down

    Tarzan II

    Tarzan II

    5 to 7

    5 to 7

    The Elephant Man

    The Elephant

    Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil

    Hoodwinked T

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    What I Want

    Baba Yaga

    Baba Yaga

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    The Ballad o

    Anesthesia

    Anesthesia

    Not My Life

    Not My Life

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    Gabon The La

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    The Divine G

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    A Look Throu

    Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

    Super/Man: T

    Back in Action

    Back in Acti

    The Wife

    The Wife

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    The Legend o

    Nos Bastidores de Hollywood

    Nos Bastidor

    Boulevard! A Hollywood Story

    Boulevard! A

    Gates of the Arctic

    Gates of the

    The Girl with All the Gifts

    The Girl wit

    The Great Gilly Hopkins

    The Great Gi

    Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

    Wake Up Dead

    Father Figures

    Father Figur

    Anne Frank Remembered

    Anne Frank R

    SNL: The Best of Adam Sandler

    SNL: The Bes

    Warcraft

    Warcraft

    Crooked House

    Crooked Hous

    What Happened to Monday

    What Happene

    In & Out

    In & Out

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    Saturday Nig

    Welcome to Hollywood

    Welcome to H

    The Wilde Wedding

    The Wilde We

    The Big Chill: A Reunion

    The Big Chil

    Six by Sondheim

    Six by Sondh

    Andrew Lloyd Webber: Tribute to a Superstar

    Andrew Lloyd

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    The Lady wit

    Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Royal Albert Hall Celebration

    Andrew Lloyd

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    The Good, Th

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    Let's Dance

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    Stones for I

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    Hollywood's

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    Sing! Sesame

    The Lavender Scare

    The Lavender

    Sunset Boulevard: A Look Back

    Sunset Boule

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    The Rules of

    Hillbilly Elegy

    Hillbilly El

    Four Good Days

    Four Good Da

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    Electric Blu

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

    In Search of

    Swan Song

    Swan Song

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    The Great Wo

    Brothers

    Brothers

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    Casting By

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    Broadway: Be

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    An Amazin Er

    Show of Titles

    Show of Titl

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    An Amazin' E

    Animal Farm

    Animal Farm

    Glenn Close, l'art de la transformation

    Glenn Close,

    The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping

    The Hunger G

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    Sunset Boule

    The Black Ball

    The Black Ba

    Glenn Close: A Feminist Force

    Glenn Close:

    Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration

    Sesame Stree

    Gandahar

    Gandahar

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    Baby

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    Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

    asMartha Delacroix

    2025

    The Summer Book

    asGrandmother

    2025

    Back in Action

    asGinny

    2024

    Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

    asSelf

    2024

    The Deliverance

    asAlberta Jackson

    2024

    A Look Through His Lens

    asSelf

    2023

    Heart of Stone

    asKing of Diamonds

    2023

    Tom Hanks: The Nomad

    asSelf (archive footage)

    2021

    Boulevard! A Hollywood Story

    asSelf (archive footage)

    2021

    Baba Yaga

    asChief (voice)

    2020

    537 Votes

    asSelf (archive footage)

    2018

    The Wife

    asJoan Castleman

    2018

    Andrew Lloyd Webber: Tribute to a Superstar

    asSelf

    2017

    Father Figures

    asHelen Baxter

    2017

    The Wilde Wedding

    asEve Wilde

    2017

    Crooked House

    asLady Edith de Haviland

    2017

    What Happened to Monday

    asNicolette Cayman

    2016

    The Girl with All the Gifts

    asDr. Caroline Caldwell

    2016

    Warcraft

    asAlodi (uncredited)

    2016

    Anesthesia

    asMarcia Zarrow

    2015

    The Great Gilly Hopkins

    asNonnie Hopkins

    2014

    Guardians of the Galaxy

    asNova Prime

    2014

    5 to 7

    asArlene Bloom

    2014

    Low Down

    asGram

    2013

    Six by Sondheim

    asSelf (archive footage)

    2013

    Love, Marilyn

    asSelf

    2012

    Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

    as(archive footage)

    2011

    Albert Nobbs

    asAlbert Nobbs

    2011

    Discovering Hamlet

    asGertrude (archive footage)

    2011

    Not My Life

    asNarrator (voice)

    2011

    Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil

    asGranny (voice)

    2009

    My Dog: An Unconditional Love Story

    asSelf

    2009

    Peter Matthiessen: No Boundaries

    asSelf - Hostess

    2008

    Gates of the Arctic

    asNarrator (voice)

    2007

    Evening

    asMrs. Wittenborn

    2007

    Gabon The Last Eden

    asNarrator

    2005

    Hoodwinked!

    asGranny (voice)

    2005

    Nine Lives

    asMaggie

    2005

    Heights

    asDiana

    2005

    Tarzan II

    asKala (voice)

    2005

    The Chumscrubber

    asCarrie Johnson

    2005

    Nos Bastidores de Hollywood

    asSelf (archive footage)

    2004

    The Stepford Wives

    asClaire Wellington

    2004

    Strip Search

    asKaren Moore

    2003

    The Lion in Winter

    asEleanor of Aquitaine

    2003

    What I Want My Words to Do to You

    asSelf

    2003

    In Search of the Jaguar

    asNarrator

    2003

    Le Divorce

    asOlivia Pace

    2003

    Brush with Fate

    asCornelia Engelbrecht

    2002

    The Safety of Objects

    asEsther Gold

    2001

    South Pacific

    asNellie Forbush

    2001

    The Ballad of Lucy Whipple

    asArvella Whipple

    2000

    Welcome to Hollywood

    asGlenn Close

    2000

    102 Dalmatians

    asCruella de Vil

    2000

    Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her

    asDr. Elaine Keener (segments "This is Dr. Keener" and "Fantasies about Rebecca")

    1999

    Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End

    asSarah Witting

    1999

    SNL: The Best of Adam Sandler

    asGina (archive footage) (uncredited)

    1999

    Tarzan

    asKala (voice)

    1999

    Cookie's Fortune

    asCamille Dixon

    1999

    The Big Chill: A Reunion

    asSelf

    1997

    In & Out

    asGlenn Close

    1997

    Air Force One

    asKathryn Bennett

    1997

    In the Gloaming

    asJanet

    1997

    Paradise Road

    asAdrienne Pargiter

    1996

    Mars Attacks!

    asMarsha Dale

    1996

    101 Dalmatians

    asCruella de Vil

    1996

    Mary Reilly

    asMrs. Farraday

    1995

    Anne Frank Remembered

    asDiary Readings (voice)

    1995

    Serving in Silence - The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story

    asCol. Margarethe Cammermeyer

    1994

    The Paper

    asAlicia Clark

    1993

    The House of the Spirits

    asFerula Trueba

    1993

    Skylark

    asSarah Witting

    1992

    Lincoln

    asMary Todd Lincoln (voice)

    1992

    Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall

    asSelf

    1991

    Meeting Venus

    asKarin Anderson

    1991

    Hook

    asGutless

    1991

    Sarah, Plain and Tall

    asSarah Wheaton

    1990

    Hamlet

    asGertrude

    1990

    The Divine Garbo

    asSelf - Host / Narrator

    1990

    Reversal of Fortune

    asSunny von Bülow / Narrator

    1989

    Immediate Family

    asLinda Spector

    1989

    Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary

    asSelf

    1988

    Dangerous Liaisons

    asMarquise Isabelle de Merteuil

    1988

    The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

    asNarrator (voice)

    1987

    Fatal Attraction

    asAlexandra "Alex" Forrest

    1985

    Jagged Edge

    asTeddy Barnes

    1985

    Maxie

    asJan / Maxie

    1984

    The Natural

    asIris Gaines

    1984

    The Stone Boy

    asRuth Hillerman

    1984

    Something About Amelia

    asGail Bennett

    1983

    The Big Chill

    asSarah Cooper

    1982

    The World According to Garp

    asJenny Fields

    1982

    The Elephant Man

    asPrincess Alexandra

    1979

    Orphan Train

    asJessica

    1979

    Too Far to Go

    asRebecca Kuehn

    Encore

    asMarie

    2026

    The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping

    asDrusilla Sickle

    2026

    The Black Ball

    as

    2026

    Animal Farm

    asFrieda Pilkington (voice)

    2025

    Glenn Close: A Feminist Force

    asSelf - (archive footage)

    2025

    Glenn Close, l'art de la transformation

    asSelf

    2024

    Brothers

    asCath Munger

    2021

    Swan Song

    asDr. Eve Scott

    2021

    Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age

    asSelf

    2021

    Show of Titles

    as"Dance a Little Closer" Performer

    2021

    Four Good Days

    asDeb

    2020

    Hillbilly Elegy

    asBonnie "Mamaw" Vance

    2020

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

    asCruella de Vil

    2020

    The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America

    asRoy Cohn

    2019

    The Lavender Scare

    asNarrator (voice)

    2018

    Let's Dance

    asSegment: "Night Shift"

    2012

    Casting By

    asSelf

    2005

    Hollywood's Greatest Villains

    asSelf

    2004

    Tracking 'The Lion in Winter'

    asSelf

    2002

    Sunset Boulevard: A Look Back

    asSelf

    2000

    Baby

    asAdult Sophie (Voice)

    1999

    The Lady with the Torch

    asSelf - Host

    1998

    Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Royal Albert Hall Celebration

    asSelf - Performer

    1996

    The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful

    asSelf

    1993

    Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration

    asSelf(segment "Monster in the Mirror")

    1990

    Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music

    asSelf

    1989

    An Amazin Era: Revised and Updated

    asSelf

    1988

    Stones for Ibarra

    asSara Everton

    1988

    Electric Blue 29

    as(archive footage)

    1987

    Gandahar

    asAmbisextra (voice: English version)

    1987

    Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?

    asSelf - Narrator

    1987

    Rabbit Ears - The Emperor and the Nightingale

    asNarrator (voice)

    1986

    An Amazin' Era

    asSelf

    1975

    The Rules of the Game

    asNeighbor

    The Plague Monkeys

    asNarrator

    Sunset Boulevard

    asNorma Desmond

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    (8 episode)asMarjan Montazeri

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    (1 episode)asThe Woman in Seat 2A (uncredited)

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    (1 episode)asAunt Bernie

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    (1 episode)asSarah Wheaton

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    (1 episode)asCornelia Englebrecht

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