Glenn Close

Known for ActingBorn 1947-03-19 (age 79)Greenwich, Connecticut, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America

Nos Bastidores de Hollywood

The Lady with the Torch

The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful

Hollywood's Greatest Villains

Sunset Boulevard: A Look Back

Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall

Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music

Stones for Ibarra

My Dog: An Unconditional Love Story

LA BOLA NEGRA

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

Hallmark Hall of Fame

The West Wing

The Shield

Cruella

Gabon The Last Eden

Guardians of the Galaxy

In Search of the Jaguar

Baby

The Simpsons

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

What I Want My Words to Do to You

The Rules of the Game

Tehran

Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary

3Below: Tales of Arcadia

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

Discovering Hamlet

Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Royal Albert Hall Celebration

Damages

Anne Frank Remembered

Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End

The Summer Book

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

Family Guy

Tarzan

Swan Song

What Happened to Monday

537 Votes

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

The Wife

The Graham Norton Show

5 to 7

Six by Sondheim

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Lincoln

Dangerous Liaisons