Glenn Close

Glenn Close

Birthday: 1947-03-19

Place of birth: Greenwich, Connecticut, USA

Also known as: 글렌 클로즈, گلن کلوز

imdb_id: nm0000335

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.

Played in movies:

The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America

Score: 10.0

Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music

Score: 10.0

Hollywood's Greatest Villains

Score: 10.0

The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful

Score: 10.0

Nos Bastidores de Hollywood

Score: 10.0

Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall

Score: 9.0

My Dog: An Unconditional Love Story

Score: 8.5

The Summer Book

Score: 8.3

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

Score: 8.1

Sunset Boulevard: A Look Back

Score: 8.0

In Search of the Jaguar

Score: 8.0

Gabon The Last Eden

Score: 8.0

Guardians of the Galaxy

Score: 7.9

Anne Frank Remembered

Score: 7.7

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

Score: 7.6

Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary

Score: 7.5

Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End

Score: 7.4

Tarzan

Score: 7.4

What I Want My Words to Do to You

Score: 7.2

Dangerous Liaisons

Score: 7.2

Skylark

Score: 7.2

What Happened to Monday

Score: 7.2

Swan Song

Score: 7.1

Sarah, Plain and Tall

Score: 7.1

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

Score: 7.1

Six by Sondheim

Score: 7.1

5 to 7

Score: 7.1

537 Votes

Score: 7.1

The Wife

Score: 7.1

Casting By

Score: 7.1

Glenn Close, l'art de la transformation

Score: 7.0

Baby

Score: 7.0

Discovering Hamlet

Score: 7.0

The Stone Boy

Score: 6.9

The House of the Spirits

Score: 6.9

The Natural

Score: 6.9

The Big Chill

Score: 6.9

Fatal Attraction

Score: 6.8

Hook

Score: 6.8

Four Good Days

Score: 6.8

Lincoln

Score: 6.8

SNL: The Best of Adam Sandler

Score: 6.8

Heart of Stone

Score: 6.8

Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Royal Albert Hall Celebration

Score: 6.7

Hillbilly Elegy

Score: 6.7

The World According to Garp

Score: 6.7

Reversal of Fortune

Score: 6.6

Hamlet

Score: 6.6

The Great Gilly Hopkins

Score: 6.6

Heights

Score: 6.6

The Paper

Score: 6.6

Love, Marilyn

Score: 6.6

The Girl with All the Gifts

Score: 6.6

The Safety of Objects

Score: 6.5

The Chumscrubber

Score: 6.5

Air Force One

Score: 6.5

In & Out

Score: 6.5

Back in Action

Score: 6.5

Mars Attacks!

Score: 6.4

Paradise Road

Score: 6.4

Warcraft

Score: 6.4

Cookie's Fortune

Score: 6.4

Crooked House

Score: 6.4

Albert Nobbs

Score: 6.3

The Lavender Scare

Score: 6.3

Jagged Edge

Score: 6.3

The Lion in Winter

Score: 6.2

Strip Search

Score: 6.2

Hoodwinked!

Score: 6.2

Let's Dance

Score: 6.1

In the Gloaming

Score: 6.1

Nine Lives

Score: 6.1

Tarzan II

Score: 6.1

The Deliverance

Score: 6.0

Brothers

Score: 6.0

Andrew Lloyd Webber: Tribute to a Superstar

Score: 6.0

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Score: 6.0

101 Dalmatians

Score: 5.9

Meeting Venus

Score: 5.9

Immediate Family

Score: 5.9

Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her

Score: 5.8

Father Figures

Score: 5.8

Evening

Score: 5.8

Orphan Train

Score: 5.8

Brush with Fate

Score: 5.8

Mary Reilly

Score: 5.8

Something About Amelia

Score: 5.8

Anesthesia

Score: 5.7

Serving in Silence - The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story

Score: 5.7

The Stepford Wives

Score: 5.7

The Ballad of Lucy Whipple

Score: 5.7

The Elephant Man

Score: 5.6

Low Down

Score: 5.5

102 Dalmatians

Score: 5.5

Tom Hanks: The Nomad

Score: 5.5

Animal Farm

Score: 5.4

The Wilde Wedding

Score: 5.1

Maxie

Score: 5.1

Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil

Score: 5.1

Boulevard! A Hollywood Story

Score: 5.0

Le Divorce

Score: 5.0

South Pacific

Score: 4.9

The Big Chill: A Reunion

Score: 4.5

Welcome to Hollywood

Score: 3.6

Too Far to Go

Score: 2.5

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping

Score: 0.0

An Amazin' Era

Score: 0.0

Show of Titles

Score: 0.0

Rabbit Ears - The Emperor and the Nightingale

Score: 0.0

An Amazin Era: Revised and Updated

Score: 0.0

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age

Score: 0.0

Tracking 'The Lion in Winter'

Score: 0.0

Electric Blue 29

Score: 0.0

The Rules of the Game

Score: 0.0

Stones for Ibarra

Score: 0.0

The Lady with the Torch

Score: 0.0

Peter Matthiessen: No Boundaries

Score: 0.0

Mel Gibson Goes Back to School

Score: 0.0

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

Score: 0.0

Encore

Score: 0.0

Gates of the Arctic

Score: 0.0

A Look Through His Lens

Score: 0.0

The Divine Garbo

Score: 0.0

Not My Life

Score: 0.0

Baba Yaga

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Score: 8.6

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Score: 8.6

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Score: 8.6

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Score: 8.6

The West Wing

Score: 8.3

The Shield

Score: 8.1

The Simpsons

Score: 8.0

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

Score: 7.8

Inside the Actors Studio

Score: 7.5

Tehran

Score: 7.5

Damages

Score: 7.5

3Below: Tales of Arcadia

Score: 7.4

American Experience

Score: 7.4

Family Guy

Score: 7.4

Golden Globe Awards

Score: 7.2

Golden Globe Awards

Score: 7.2

Golden Globe Awards

Score: 7.2

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Score: 7.2

The Graham Norton Show

Score: 7.2

MADtv

Score: 7.0

The Oscars

Score: 7.0

Saturday Night Live

Score: 7.0

Will & Grace

Score: 6.8

Finding Your Roots

Score: 6.8

Celebrity IOU

Score: 6.6

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

Score: 6.6

Sea Oak

Score: 6.4

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Score: 6.2

Ellen

Score: 6.2

C à vous

Score: 6.1

Please Turn the Page

Score: 6.0

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

Score: 6.0

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

Score: 6.0

Tony Awards

Score: 5.9

Tony Awards

Score: 5.9

Tony Awards

Score: 5.9

Tony Awards

Score: 5.9

Tony Awards

Score: 5.9

Tony Awards

Score: 5.9

Tony Awards

Score: 5.9

Tony Awards

Score: 5.9

Tony Awards

Score: 5.9

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Score: 5.8

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

Score: 5.7

Goldene Kamera Verleihung

Score: 5.7

Great Performances

Score: 5.5

Great Performances

Score: 5.5

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Score: 5.3

Wetten, dass..?

Score: 5.3

This Morning

Score: 5.2

Desus & Mero

Score: 5.1

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

Score: 5.1

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

Score: 5.0

Leute heute

Score: 4.8

The View

Score: 4.3

The Rosie O'Donnell Show

Score: 3.9

Pebble Mill

Score: 3.1

Marcians

Score: 0.0

All's Fair

Score: 0.0

Standing By

Score: 0.0