0.0
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
2026
Glenn Close
Acting
Born March 19, 1947Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
Biography
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.
Movies
See All
8.4
La bola negra
2026
6.3
Animal Farm
2026
7.2
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
2025
0.0
Glenn Close: A Feminist Force
2025
6.3
Glenn Close, l'art de la transformation
2025
7.3
The Summer Book
2025
6.4
Back in Action
2025
5.9
Brothers
2024
8.1
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
2024
6.0
The Deliverance
2024
A Look Through His Lens
0.0
A Look Through His Lens
2024
6.7
Heart of Stone
2023
5.5
Tom Hanks: The Nomad
2023
7.1
Swan Song
2021
6.2
Boulevard! A Hollywood Story
2021
0.0
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
2021
0.0
Show of Titles
2021
6.8
Four Good Days
2021
0.0
Baba Yaga
2021
6.7
Hillbilly Elegy
2020
7.1
In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
2020
7.1
537 Votes
2020
10.0
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
2020
5.6
The Lavender Scare
2019
6.1
Let's Dance
2018
6.0
Andrew Lloyd Webber: Tribute to a Superstar
2018
6.0
The Green Fog
2018
5.8
Father Figures
2017
5.1
The Wilde Wedding
2017
6.4
Crooked House
2017
7.1
What Happened to Monday
2017
7.1
The Wife
2017
5.0
The Fabulous Allan Carr
2017
6.6
The Girl with All the Gifts
2016
6.4
Warcraft
2016
5.7
Anesthesia
2016
6.6
The Great Gilly Hopkins
2015
7.9
Guardians of the Galaxy
2014
7.1
5 to 7
2014
5.6
Low Down
2014
7.1
Six by Sondheim
2013
6.5
Love, Marilyn
2013
6.9
Casting By
2012
7.5
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
6.3
Albert Nobbs
2011
7.5
Discovering Hamlet
2011
0.0
Not My Life
2011
5.2
Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil
2011
8.5
My Dog: An Unconditional Love Story
2009
Peter Matthiessen: No Boundaries
0.0
Peter Matthiessen: No Boundaries
2009
0.0
Gates of the Arctic
2008
5.8
Evening
2007
8.0
Gabon The Last Eden
2007
6.3
Hoodwinked!
2005
9.5
Hollywood's Greatest Villains
2005
6.1
Nine Lives
2005
6.3
Heights
2005
6.1
Tarzan II
2005
6.5
The Chumscrubber
2005
10.0
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005
5.7
The Stepford Wives
2004
6.2
Strip Search
2004
Tracking 'The Lion in Winter'
0.0
Tracking 'The Lion in Winter'
2004
5.9
The Lion in Winter
2003
7.8
What I Want My Words to Do to You
2003
In Search of the Jaguar
8.0
In Search of the Jaguar
2003
4.9
Le Divorce
2003
6.0
Brush with Fate
2003
6.5
The Safety of Objects
2002
9.0
Sunset Boulevard: A Look Back
2002
5.3
South Pacific
2001
5.6
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
2001
4.2
Welcome to Hollywood
2000
8.0
Baby
2000
5.5
102 Dalmatians
2000
5.8
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
2000
7.5
Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End
1999
6.8
SNL: The Best of Adam Sandler
1999
6.9
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
1999
0.0
Tarzan in Concert with Phil Collins
1999
7.4
Tarzan
1999
6.4
Cookie's Fortune
1999
6.3
The Big Chill: A Reunion
1999
10.0
The Lady with the Torch
1999
7.6
Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Royal Albert Hall Celebration
1998
6.5
In & Out
1997
6.5
Air Force One
1997
6.0
In the Gloaming
1997
6.3
Paradise Road
1997
6.4
Mars Attacks!
1996
5.9
101 Dalmatians
1996
10.0
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
1996
5.8
Mary Reilly
1996
7.6
Anne Frank Remembered
1995
5.7
Serving in Silence - The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story
1995
6.6
The Paper
1994
7.0
Sesame Street's 25th Birthday: A Musical Celebration
1993
6.9
The House of the Spirits
1993
7.0
Skylark
1993
Lincoln
7.3
Lincoln
1992
7.0
Blast 'Em
1992
9.0
Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall
1992
5.8
Meeting Venus
1991
6.8
Hook
1991
7.1
Sarah, Plain and Tall
1991
6.6
Hamlet
1990
0.0
The Divine Garbo
1990
6.7
Reversal of Fortune
1990
9.0
Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music
1990
0.0
An Amazin Era: Revised and Updated
1989
5.9
Immediate Family
1989
7.8
Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary
1989
7.2
Dangerous Liaisons
1988
6.0
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
1988
9.0
Stones for Ibarra
1988
0.0
Electric Blue 29
1988
6.8
Fatal Attraction
1987
Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?
0.0
Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?
1987
Rabbit Ears - The Emperor and the Nightingale
0.0
Rabbit Ears - The Emperor and the Nightingale
1987
0.0
An Amazin' Era
1986
6.3
Jagged Edge
1985
5.0
Maxie
1985
6.9
The Natural
1984
7.0
The Stone Boy
1984
6.4
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
1984
5.6
Something About Amelia
1984
6.8
The Big Chill
1983
6.7
The World According to Garp
1982
5.9
The Elephant Man
1982
5.9
Orphan Train
1979
3.5
Too Far to Go
1979
8.0
The Rules of the Game
1975
Encore
0.0
Encore
The Plague Monkeys
0.0
The Plague Monkeys
0.0
Sunset Boulevard
Diamonds on the Silver Screen
0.0
Diamonds on the Silver Screen
The Midnight Library
0.0
The Midnight Library
TV Shows
See All
4.8
All's Fair
4.4
Hollywood Squares
6.5
The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window
7.5
Tehran
6.7
Celebrity IOU
5.1
Desus & Mero
7.5
3Below: Tales of Arcadia
0.0
Marcians
6.4
Sea Oak
6.1
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
6.2
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
4.2
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
7.8
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
5.1
Late Night with Seth Meyers
5.8
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
6.5
Finding Your Roots
6.1
C à vous
4.9
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
5.9
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
7.5
Damages
7.2
The Graham Norton Show
5.6
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
8.2
The Shield
8.3
The West Wing
7.4
Family Guy
6.9
Will & Grace
4.3
The View
5.2
Leute heute
4.1
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
7.1
MADtv
0.0
Inside the Actors Studio
6.2
Ellen
7.3
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Pebble Mill
4.1
Pebble Mill
8.0
The Simpsons
6.5
American Experience
5.2
This Morning
Goldene Kamera
5.7
Goldene Kamera
5.6
Wetten, dass..?
Please Turn the Page
6.0
Please Turn the Page
6.9
Saturday Night Live
6.1
Great Performances
6.1
Great Performances
0.0
Tony Awards
0.0
Tony Awards
0.0
Tony Awards
0.0
Tony Awards
0.0
Tony Awards
0.0
Tony Awards
0.0
Tony Awards
0.0
Tony Awards
7.1
The Oscars
8.8
Hallmark Hall of Fame
8.8
Hallmark Hall of Fame
8.8
Hallmark Hall of Fame
8.8
Hallmark Hall of Fame
7.0
Golden Globe Awards
7.0
Golden Globe Awards
7.0
Golden Globe Awards
Standing By
0.0
Standing By
Maud
0.0