Glenn Close
Birthdate
March 19, 1947 (77 years old)
Place of Birth
Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
Known For
Acting
Details
Birthdate
March 19, 1947 (77 years old)
Place of Birth
Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
Known For
Acting
Biography
Glenn Close (born March 19, 1947) is an American actress. In a career spanning over five decades of 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 and three Grammy Awards. She is one of the few performers to be nominated for the Triple Crown of Acting and EGOT. In 2009, she received a motion picture star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and in 2016, she was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame. Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2019.
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Glenn Close's LGBTQ+ Titles
In & Out
Glenn Close (uncredited)
The World According to Garp
Jenny Fields
Acting (179)
Standing By (1 episode)
All's Fair (1 episode)
Encore as Marie
Sunset Boulevard as Norma Desmond
2025
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
2025
The Summer Book as Grandmother
2025
Back in Action
2024
Brothers as Cath Munger
2024
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story as Self
2024
The Deliverance as Alberta Jackson
2024
A Look Through His Lens as Self
2023
Heart of Stone as King of Diamonds
2023
Tom Hanks: The Nomad as Self (archive footage)
2022
The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window as The Woman in Seat 2A (uncredited) (1 episode)
2021
Swan Song as Dr. Eve Scott
2021
Boulevard! A Hollywood Story as Self (archive footage)
2021
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age as Self
2021
Four Good Days as Deb
2021
Baba Yaga as Chief (voice)
2020
Hillbilly Elegy as Bonnie "Mamaw" Vance
2020
In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover as Cruella de Vil
2020
537 Votes as Self (archive footage)
2020
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America as Roy Cohn
2020
Tehran as Marjan Montazeri (8 episodes)
2020
Celebrity IOU as Self (1 episode)
2019
The Lavender Scare as Narrator (voice)
2019
Desus & Mero as Self (1 episode)
2018
3Below: Tales of Arcadia as Mother (voice) (26 episodes)
2018
Let's Dance as Segment: "Night Shift"
2018
The Wife as Joan Castleman
2018
Andrew Lloyd Webber: Tribute to a Superstar as Self
2017
Father Figures as Helen Baxter
2017
Marcians as Self - Interviewee (1 episode)
2017
Sea Oak as Aunt Bernie (1 episode)
2017
The Wilde Wedding as Eve Wilde
2017
Crooked House as Lady Edith de Haviland
2017
What Happened to Monday as Nicolette Cayman
2016
The Girl with All the Gifts as Dr. Caroline Caldwell
2016
Warcraft as Alodi (uncredited)
2016
Anesthesia as Marcia Zarrow
2015
The Great Gilly Hopkins as Nonnie Hopkins
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self (1 episode)
2015
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self (1 episode)
2014
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self (1 episode)
2014
Guardians of the Galaxy as Nova Prime
2014
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver as Self (1 episode)
2014
5 to 7 as Arlene Bloom
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self (1 episode)
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (1 episode)
2014
Low Down as Gram
2013
Six by Sondheim as Self (archive footage)
2013
Love, Marilyn as Self
2012
Casting By as Self
2012
Finding Your Roots as Self (1 episode)
2012
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
2011
Albert Nobbs as Albert Nobbs
2011
Touch of Evil as The Vamp
2011
Discovering Hamlet as Gertrude (archive footage)
2011
Not My Life as Narrator (voice)
2011
Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil as Granny (voice)
2009
My Dog: An Unconditional Love Story as Self
2009
C à vous as Self (1 episode)
2009
Home as Narrator (english voice)
2009
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon as Self (1 episode)
2009
Peter Matthiessen: No Boundaries as Self - Hostess
2008
Gates of the Arctic as Narrator (voice)
2007
Damages as Patty Hewes (59 episodes)
2007
Evening as Mrs. Wittenborn
2007
Gabon The Last Eden as Narrator
2007
The Graham Norton Show as Self (1 episode)
2005
Hoodwinked! as Granny (voice)
2005
Hollywood's Greatest Villains as Self
2005
Nine Lives as Maggie
2005
Heights as Diana
2005
Tarzan II as Kala (voice)
2005
The Chumscrubber as Carrie Johnson
2005
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood as Self
2004
The Stepford Wives as Claire Wellington
2004
Strip Search as Karen Moore
2004
Tracking 'The Lion in Winter' as Self
2003
The Lion in Winter as Eleanor of Aquitaine
2003
What I Want My Words to Do to You as Self
2003
In Search of the Jaguar as Narrator
2003
The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self (1 episode)
2003
Le Divorce as Olivia Pace
2003
Brush with Fate as Cornelia Engelbrecht
2002
The Safety of Objects as Esther Gold
2002
Sunset Boulevard: A Look Back as Self
2002
The Shield as Captain Monica Rawling (13 episodes)
2001
South Pacific as Nellie Forbush
2001
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple as Arvella Whipple
2000
Baby as Adult Sophie (voice)
2000
102 Dalmatians as Cruella de Vil
2000
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her as Dr. Elaine Keener (segments "This is Dr. Keener" and "Fantasies about Rebecca")
1999
Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End as Sarah Witting
1999
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Adam Sandler as Gina (archive footage) (uncredited)
1999
The West Wing as Evelyn Baker Lang (1 episode)
1999
Tarzan as Kala (voice)
1999
Cookie's Fortune as Camille Dixon
1999
Family Guy as Glenn Close (voice) (1 episode)
1999
The Big Chill: A Reunion as Self
1999
The Lady with the Torch as Self - Host
1998
Welcome to Hollywood as Glenn Close
1998
Will & Grace as Fannie Lieber (1 episode)
1998
Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Royal Albert Hall Celebration as Self - Performer
1997
In & Out as Glenn Close (uncredited)
1997
The View as Self (3 episodes)
1997
Air Force One as Vice President Kathryn Bennett
1997
Leute heute as Self (2 episodes)
1997
In the Gloaming as Janet
1997
Paradise Road as Adrienne Pargiter
1996
Mars Attacks! as Marsha Dale
1996
101 Dalmatians as Cruella de Vil
1996
The Rosie O'Donnell Show as Self - Guest (1 episode)
1996
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful as Self
1996
Mary Reilly as Mrs. Farraday
1995
MADtv as Self (1 episode)
1995
Anne Frank Remembered as Diary Readings (voice)
1995
Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story as Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer
1994
Inside the Actors Studio as Self (1 episode)
1994
Ellen as Glenn Close (1 episode)
1994
The Paper as Alicia Clark
1993
The House of the Spirits as Ferula Trueba
1993
Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest (1 episode)
1993
Skylark as Sarah Witting
1992
Lincoln as Mary Todd Lincoln (voice)
1992
Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall as Self
1991
Pebble Mill as Self (1 episode)
1991
Meeting Venus as Karin Anderson
1991
Hook as Gutless
1991
Sarah, Plain and Tall as Sarah Wheaton
1991
Mel Gibson Goes Back to School as Gertrude (archive footage)
1990
Hamlet as Gertrude
1990
The Divine Garbo as Self - Host / Narrator
1990
Reversal of Fortune as Sunny von Bülow / Narrator
1990
Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music as Self
1989
The Simpsons as Mona Simpson (voice) (12 episodes)
1989
An Amazin Era: Revised and Updated as Self
1989
Immediate Family as Linda Spector
1989
Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary as Self
1988
Dangerous Liaisons as Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil
1988
American Experience as Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
1988
This Morning as Self - Guest (1 episode)
1988
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow as Narrator (voice)
1988
Stones for Ibarra as Sara Everton
1988
Electric Blue 29 as (archive footage)
1987
Fatal Attraction as Alexandra "Alex" Forrest
1987
Rabbit Ears - The Emperor and the Nightingale as Narrator (voice)
1985
Jagged Edge as Teddy Barnes
1985
Maxie as Jan / Maxie
1984
The Natural as Iris Gaines
1984
The Stone Boy as Ruth Hillerman
1984
Something About Amelia as Gail Bennett
1983
The Big Chill as Sarah Cooper
1982
The World According to Garp as Jenny Fields
1982
The Elephant Man as Princess Alexandra
1981
Wetten, dass..? as Self (1 episode)
1979
Orphan Train as Jessica
1979
Too Far to Go as Rebecca Kuehn
1977
Bitte umblättern as Self (1 episode)
1975
Saturday Night Live as Self - Host (2 episodes)
1975
The Rules of the Game as Neighbor
1971
Great Performances as Neighbor (1 episode)
1971
Great Performances as Self - Host (2 episodes)
1966
Goldene Kamera Verleihung as Self (1 episode)
1956
Tony Awards as Hillary Clinton (1 episode)
1956
Tony Awards as Self (archive footage) (2 episodes)
1956
Tony Awards as Self - Audience Member (1 episode)
1956
Tony Awards as Self - Host (2 episodes)
1956
Tony Awards as Self - Host/Performer/Winner (1 episode)
1956
Tony Awards as Self - Nominee (1 episode)
1956
Tony Awards as Self - Presenter (4 episodes)
1953
The Oscars as Self (6 episodes)
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame as Cornelia Englebrecht (1 episode)
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame as Sara Everton (1 episode)
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame as Sarah (1 episode)
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame as Sarah Wheaton (1 episode)
1944
Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee (2 episodes)
1944
Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter/Winner (1 episode)
Production (13)
All's Fair (1 episode)
• Executive Producer (1 episode)
Sunset Boulevard
• Producer
2021
Cruella
• Producer
2017
Sea Oak (1 episode)
• Producer (1 episode)
2017
The Wilde Wedding
• Executive Producer
2011
Albert Nobbs
• Producer
2001
South Pacific
• Executive Producer
2001
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
• Executive Producer
2000
Baby
• Executive Producer
1995
Journey
• Executive Producer
1995
Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story
• Executive Producer
1993
Skylark
• Executive Producer
1991
Sarah, Plain and Tall
• Executive Producer
Writing (1)
2011
Albert Nobbs
• Screenplay