Glenn Close

Acting · Born 1947-03-19 in Greenwich, Connecticut, USA

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 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…

Filmography

• Dangerous Liaisons as Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil
• The House of the Spirits as Ferula Trueba
• Tarzan as Kala (voice)
• Guardians of the Galaxy as Nova Prime
• 5 to 7 as Arlene Bloom
• The Wife as Joan Castleman
• Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery as Martha Delacroix
• What Happened to Monday as Nicolette Cayman
• Swan Song as Dr. Eve Scott
• Mars Attacks! as Marsha Dale

TV

• The Simpsons as Mona Simpson (voice)
• The Shield as Captain Monica Rawling
• The West Wing as Evelyn Baker Lang
• Last Week Tonight with John Oliver as Self
• This Morning as Self - Guest
• Inside the Actors Studio as Self
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
• The View as Self
• Finding Your Roots as Self
• C à vous as Self