
Glenn Close
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Biography
Glenda Veronica Close 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

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

Late Night with Seth Meyers

The Simpsons

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

The Oscars

Family Guy

Saturday Night Live

Tony Awards

MADtv

Will & Grace

Finding Your Roots

Golden Globe Awards

Pebble Mill

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

Desus & Mero

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

The Graham Norton Show

The West Wing

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

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

In & Out

Hook

Warcraft

Heart of Stone

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping

Guardians of the Galaxy

Tehran

Father Figures

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

Tarzan II

Back in Action

The Shield

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Sunset Boulevard: A Look Back

The Stepford Wives

Swan Song

3Below: Tales of Arcadia

The Girl with All the Gifts

The Natural

Brothers

Tarzan

Air Force One

Lincoln

All's Fair

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

Fatal Attraction

Standing By

Hillbilly Elegy

The Deliverance

Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil

Hamlet

Mars Attacks!

What Happened to Monday

Hoodwinked!

In the Gloaming

102 Dalmatians

101 Dalmatians

Dangerous Liaisons

Four Good Days

Sea Oak

Paradise Road

The Wife

The Lion in Winter

Damages
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