Glenn Close

ActorProducerWriter Mar 19 (age 79) Greenwich, Connecticut, USA 1951–2030 (79 year career)

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Biography

Glenda Veronica Close (born March 19, 1947) 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 fem…

Known For

Film

Guardians of the Galaxy

Nova Prime

Film

Cruella

Producer

Film

Tarzan

Kala (voice)

Film

What Happened to Monday

Nicolette Cayman

Film

Hook

Gutless

Film

Warcraft

Alodi (uncredited)

Film

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

Martha Delacroix

Film

Mars Attacks!

Marsha Dale

Filmography

Acting (183)

Movies (132)

To Be A Terrorist

2030 Upcoming

as Bentley's Mom

Mar 15

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping

2026 Upcoming

as Drusilla Sickle

Nov 18

Animal Farm

2026 Upcoming

as Frieda Pilkington (voice)

May 1

The Black Ball

2026 Upcoming

Oct 2

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

as Martha Delacroix

Back in Action

as Ginny

Glenn Close, l'art de la transformation

as Self

The Summer Book

as Grandmother

Glenn Close: A Feminist Force

2025

as Self - (archive footage)

Brothers

as Cath Munger

The Deliverance

as Alberta Jackson

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

2024

as Self

8.1

A Look Through His Lens

2024

as Self

Heart of Stone

2023

as King of Diamonds

6.7

Tom Hanks: The Nomad

2023

as Self (archive footage)

Swan Song

as Dr. Eve Scott

Four Good Days

as Deb

Baba Yaga

as Chief (voice)

Show of Titles

2021

as "Dance a Little Closer" Performer

Boulevard! A Hollywood Story

2021

as Self (archive footage)

6.2

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age

2021

as Self

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

2020

as Cruella de Vil

7.1

Hillbilly Elegy

2020

as Bonnie "Mamaw" Vance

6.7

The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America

2020

as Roy Cohn

10.0

537 Votes

2020

as Self (archive footage)

The Lavender Scare

as Narrator (voice)

The Wife

as Joan Castleman

Let's Dance

as Segment: "Night Shift"

6.1

Andrew Lloyd Webber: Tribute to a Superstar

2018

as Self

6.0

What Happened to Monday

2017

as Nicolette Cayman

7.1

Crooked House

2017

as Lady Edith de Haviland

Father Figures

as Helen Baxter

The Wilde Wedding

as Eve Wilde

Warcraft

as Alodi (uncredited)

6.4

The Girl with All the Gifts

2016

as Dr. Caroline Caldwell

6.6

Anesthesia

2016

as Marcia Zarrow

5.8

The Great Gilly Hopkins

2015

as Nonnie Hopkins

6.6

Guardians of the Galaxy

as Nova Prime

5 to 7

as Arlene Bloom

Low Down

as Gram

Six by Sondheim

as Self (archive footage)

7.1

Love, Marilyn

2013

as Self

6.6

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

as (archive footage)

Casting By

as Self

Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil

as Granny (voice)

Albert Nobbs

as Albert Nobbs

Discovering Hamlet

as Gertrude (archive footage)

7.0

Not My Life

2011

as Narrator (voice)

My Dog: An Unconditional Love Story

2009

as Self

8.5

Peter Matthiessen: No Boundaries

2009

as Self - Hostess

Gates of the Arctic

2008

as Narrator (voice)

Evening

as Mrs. Wittenborn

Gabon The Last Eden

as Narrator

Hoodwinked!

as Granny (voice)

Tarzan II

as Kala (voice)

The Chumscrubber

as Carrie Johnson

Nos Bastidores de Hollywood

2005

as Self (archive footage)

Nine Lives

as Maggie

Heights

as Diana

Hollywood's Greatest Villains

as Self

The Stepford Wives

as Claire Wellington

Strip Search

as Karen Moore

Tracking 'The Lion in Winter'

2004

as Self

The Lion in Winter

2003

as Eleanor of Aquitaine

Le Divorce

as Olivia Pace

Brush with Fate

as Cornelia Engelbrecht

5.8

What I Want My Words to Do to You

2003

as Self

7.2

In Search of the Jaguar

2003

as Narrator

8.0

The Safety of Objects

2002

as Esther Gold

6.4

Sunset Boulevard: A Look Back

as Self

South Pacific

as Nellie Forbush

The Ballad of Lucy Whipple

as Arvella Whipple

102 Dalmatians

as Cruella de Vil

Welcome to Hollywood

as Glenn Close

Baby

as Adult Sophie (Voice)

7.0

Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her

2000

as Dr. Elaine Keener (segments "This is Dr. Keener" and "Fantasies about Rebecca")

5.8

Tarzan

1999

as Kala (voice)

7.4

The Lady with the Torch

1999

as Self - Host

Cookie's Fortune

1999

as Camille Dixon

6.3

SNL: The Best of Adam Sandler

1999

as Gina (archive footage) (uncredited)

6.8

Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End

1999

as Sarah Witting

7.4

The Big Chill: A Reunion

1999

as Self

4.5

Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Royal Albert Hall Celebration

as Self - Performer

Air Force One

as Kathryn Bennett

In & Out

as Glenn Close

Paradise Road

as Adrienne Pargiter

In the Gloaming

as Janet

101 Dalmatians

as Cruella de Vil

Mars Attacks!

as Marsha Dale

Mary Reilly

as Mrs. Farraday

The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful

1996

as Self

10.0

Serving in Silence - The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story

1995

as Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer

5.4

Anne Frank Remembered

1995

as Diary Readings (voice)

7.6

The Paper

1994

as Alicia Clark

6.6

The House of the Spirits

1993

as Ferula Trueba

6.9

Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration

1993

as Self (segment "Monster in the Mirror")

Skylark

as Sarah Witting

Lincoln

as Mary Todd Lincoln (voice)

6.8

Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall

as Self

Hook

as Gutless

Meeting Venus

as Karin Anderson

Sarah, Plain and Tall

1991

as Sarah Wheaton

7.1

The Divine Garbo

1990

as Self - Host / Narrator

Hamlet

1990

as Gertrude

6.6

Reversal of Fortune

1990

as Sunny von Bülow / Narrator

6.6

Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music

1990

as Self

10.0

An Amazin Era: Revised and Updated

1989

as Self

Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary

as Self

Immediate Family

as Linda Spector

Dangerous Liaisons

as Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil

7.2

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

1988

as Narrator (voice)

6.0

Electric Blue 29

1988

as (archive footage)

Stones for Ibarra

1988

as Sara Everton

Fatal Attraction

1987

as Alexandra "Alex" Forrest

6.8

Rabbit Ears - The Emperor and the Nightingale

1987

as Narrator (voice)

Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?

1987

as Self - Narrator

An Amazin' Era

1986

as Self

Jagged Edge

as Teddy Barnes

Maxie

as Jan / Maxie

The Natural

as Iris Gaines

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

1984

as Miss Jane Porter (voice) (uncredited)

6.4

The Stone Boy

1984

as Ruth Hillerman

6.9

Something About Amelia

as Gail Bennett

The Big Chill

as Sarah Cooper

The Elephant Man

as Princess Alexandra

5.6

The World According to Garp

as Jenny Fields

Orphan Train

as Jessica

Too Far to Go

as Rebecca Kuehn

The Rules of the Game

1975

as Neighbor

Encore

as Marie

Sunset Boulevard

as Norma Desmond

The Plague Monkeys

as Narrator

Television (51)

Hollywood Squares

as Self

All's Fair

as Dina Standish

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

2022

as The Woman in Seat 2A (uncredited)

Tehran

as Marjan Montazeri

Celebrity IOU

as Self

Desus & Mero

as Self

3Below: Tales of Arcadia

2018

as Mother (voice)

7.5

Marcians

2017

as Self - Interviewee

Sea Oak

2017

as Aunt Bernie

6.4

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

2015

as Self - Guest

6.1

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

2015

as Self

6.2

Late Night with Seth Meyers

2014

as Self

5.2

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

2014

as Self

5.9

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

2014

as Self

7.8

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

as Self

Finding Your Roots

as Self

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

2009

as Self - Guest

5.1

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

as Self - Guest

C à vous

as Self

The Graham Norton Show

as Self

Damages

as Patty Hewes

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

2003

as Self

5.6

The Shield

2002

as Captain Monica Rawling

8.1

Family Guy

1999

as Glenn Close (voice)

The West Wing

as Evelyn Baker Lang

Will & Grace

as Fannie Lieber

The View

as Self

Leute heute

as Self

The Rosie O'Donnell Show

as Self - Guest

MADtv

as Self

Ellen

as Glenn Close

Inside the Actors Studio

1994

as Self

7.5

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

as Self - Guest

Pebble Mill

as Self

The Simpsons

as Mona Simpson (voice)

8.0

American Experience

1988

as Self - Narrator (voice)

This Morning

as Self - Guest

Goldene Kamera

as Self

Wetten, dass..?

as Self

Please Turn the Page

as Self

Saturday Night Live

as Self

Great Performances

as Neighbor

Tony Awards

as Self - Host

Tony Awards

as Self - Audience Member

5.9

Tony Awards

1956

as Self - Host

Tony Awards

1956

as Self - Audience Member

The Oscars

1953

as Self

7.0

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951

as Sara Everton

8.6

Golden Globe Awards

1944

as Self - Presenter/Nominee

7.2

Standing By

Maud

as Maud Oldcastle

Crew (17)

Movies (14)

The Summer Book

Producer

Cruella

Producer

The Wilde Wedding

Executive Producer

Albert Nobbs

Lyricist

Albert Nobbs

Producer

Albert Nobbs

Screenplay

South Pacific

Executive Producer

The Ballad of Lucy Whipple

Executive Producer

Baby

Executive Producer

Serving in Silence - The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story

Executive Producer

Journey

Executive Producer

Skylark

Executive Producer

Sarah, Plain and Tall

1991

Executive Producer

7.1

Sunset Boulevard

Producer

Television (3)

All's Fair

Executive Producer

Sea Oak

Producer

Maud

Executive Producer