Glenn Close on screen and stage
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Glenn Close is an American actress, screenwriter and film producer with an extensive career in film, television, and stage work. She began her professional career in 1974 with a role in the stage play Love for Love and was mostly a stage actress in New York until the early 1980s. Her work included Broadway productions of Barnum in 1980 and The Real Thing in 1983, for which she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play.
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Her film debut came in The World According to Garp (1982), which was followed by supporting roles in the films The Big Chill (1983) and The Natural (1984); all three earned her nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Close went on to establish herself as a Hollywood leading lady with roles in Fatal Attraction (1987) and Dangerous Liaisons (1988), both of which earned her nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Close won two more Tony Awards for Death and the Maiden in 1992 and Sunset Boulevard in 1995. She won her first Primetime Emmy Award for the 1995 television drama film Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story, and she continued a successful film career with starring roles in Reversal of Fortune (1990) and Air Force One (1997), among others, and became even more widely known as a result of her portrayal as the villainous Cruella de Vil in 101 Dalmatians (1996) and its sequel 102 Dalmatians (2000). In 2003, Close portrayed Eleanor of Aquitaine in the television film The Lion in Winter, which earned her a Golden Globe Award. From 2007 to 2012 she starred as Patty Hewes in the television drama series Damages, which won her a Golden Globe Award and two Primetime Emmy Awards. In 2014, she returned to the Broadway stage, appearing in a revival of A Delicate Balance.[1] During this period, she received two additional Best Actress Academy Award nominations for Albert Nobbs (2011) and The Wife (2017). She also won her third Golden Globe for her performance in The Wife. In 2020, she starred in Hillbilly Elegy, earning her a fourth Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress (her eighth nomination in any category), making her one of the five most-nominated actresses in Academy history.
Filmography
| † | Denotes works that have not yet been released |
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | The World According to Garp | Jenny Fields | |
| 1983 | The Big Chill | Sarah Cooper | |
| 1984 | The Natural | Iris Gaines | |
| The Stone Boy | Ruth Hillerman | ||
| Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | Jane Porter | Voice, uncredited | |
| 1985 | Jagged Edge | Theodosia "Teddy" Barnes | |
| Maxie | Jan Cheyney / Maxie Malone | ||
| 1987 | Fatal Attraction | Alexandra "Alex" Forrest | |
| 1988 | Dangerous Liaisons | Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil | |
| Light Years | Queen Ambisextra | Voice, English dub of French film | |
| 1989 | Immediate Family | Linda Spector | |
| 1990 | Reversal of Fortune | Sunny von Bülow | |
| Hamlet | Queen Gertrude | ||
| 1991 | Hook | Gutless | Cameo |
| Meeting Venus | Karin Anderson | ||
| 1993 | The House of the Spirits | Ferula Trueba | |
| 1994 | The Paper | Alicia Clark | |
| 1996 | Mary Reilly | Mrs. Farraday | |
| 101 Dalmatians | Cruella de Vil | ||
| Mars Attacks! | First Lady Marsha Dale | ||
| 1997 | Paradise Road | Adrienne Pargiter | |
| Air Force One | Vice President Kathryn Bennett | ||
| In & Out | Herself | Cameo | |
| 1998 | Welcome to Hollywood | ||
| 1999 | Cookie's Fortune | Camille Dixon | |
| Tarzan | Kala | Voice, Reprised role in 2002 DVD Read-Along | |
| 2000 | 102 Dalmatians | Cruella de Vil | |
| Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her | Dr. Elaine Keener | ||
| 2001 | The Safety of Objects | Esther Gold | |
| 2003 | Le Divorce | Olivia Pace | |
| Pinocchio | The Blue Fairy | Voice | |
| 2004 | The Stepford Wives | Claire Wellington | |
| 2005 | Heights | Diana | |
| Tarzan II | Kala | Voice, direct-to-DVD | |
| The Chumscrubber | Carrie Johnson | ||
| Nine Lives | Maggie | ||
| 2006 | Hoodwinked! | Granny Puckett | Voice |
| 2007 | Evening | Mrs. Wittenborn | |
| 2011 | Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil | Granny Puckett | Voice |
| Albert Nobbs | Albert Nobbs | Also writer and producer | |
| Touch of Evil | The Vamp | Short from A Video Gallery of Cinematic Villainy | |
| 2014 | Low Down | Gram | |
| Guardians of the Galaxy | Nova Prime Irani Rael | ||
| 2015 | 5 to 7 | Arlene | |
| Anesthesia | Marcia Zarrow | ||
| The Great Gilly Hopkins | Nonnie Hopkins | ||
| 2016 | Warcraft | Alodi | Uncredited cameo |
| The Girl with All the Gifts | Dr. Caroline Caldwell | ||
| 2017 | What Happened to Monday | Nicolette Cayman | |
| The Wilde Wedding | Eve Wilde | Also executive producer | |
| The Wife | Joan Castleman | ||
| Crooked House | Lady Edith | ||
| Father Figures | Helen Baxter | ||
| 2020 | Four Good Days | Deb Wheeler | |
| Hillbilly Elegy | Bonnie "Mamaw" Vance | ||
| 2021 | Cruella | N/a | Executive producer |
| Swan Song | Dr. Scott | ||
| 2023 | Heart of Stone | King of Diamonds | Cameo |
| 2024 | The Deliverance | Alberta Jackson | |
| Brothers | Cath Munger | ||
| The Summer Book | Grandmother | [2] | |
| 2025 | Back in Action | Ginny Curtis | |
| Animal Farm | Freida Pilkington | Voice | |
| Wake Up Dead Man | Martha Delacroix | ||
| 2026 | La bola negra | Isabelle Durand | |
| The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping † | Drusilla Sickle | Post-production |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | Great Performances | Neighbor | Episode: "The Rules of the Game" |
| 1979 | Too Far to Go | Rebecca Kuehn | Television film |
| Orphan Train | Jessica | ||
| 1982 | The Elephant Man | Princess Alexandra | |
| 1984 | Something About Amelia | Gail Bennett | |
| 1987–1988 | Rabbit Ears Storybook Classics | Narrator | Episodes: "The Emperor and the Nightingale, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" |
| 1988 | Stones for Ibarra | Sara Everton | Television film |
| 1989–1992 | Saturday Night Live | Herself (host) | 2 episodes |
| 1990 | The Tracey Ullman Show | Virginia | Episode: "Creative Differences" |
| 1991 | Sarah, Plain and Tall | Sarah Wheaton | Television film, also executive producer |
| 1992 | Lincoln | Mary Todd Lincoln (voice) | Television film |
| 1993 | Skylark | Sarah Witting | Television film, also executive producer |
| 1995 | Serving in Silence | Margarethe Cammermeyer | Television film |
| Inside the Actors Studio | Herself | Season 2, episode 4 | |
| 1995–2024 | The Simpsons | Mona Simpson (voice) | 12 episodes |
| 1996–1998 | The Little Lulu Show | Mrs. Van Snobbe / Mrs. Hoggenswallow | Voice; 9 episodes |
| 1997 | In the Gloaming | Janet | Television film |
| 1998 | Ellen | Herself | Episode: Ellen: A Hollywood Tribute: Part 1 |
| 1999 | Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End | Sarah Witting | Television film, also executive producer |
| 2000 | Baby | Adult Sophie (voice) | Television film, narrator, also executive producer |
| 2001 | The Ballad of Lucy Whipple | Arvella Whipple | Television film, also executive producer |
| South Pacific | Nellie Forbush | ||
| 2002 | Will & Grace | Fanny Lieber | Episode: "Hocus Focus" |
| 2003 | Brush with Fate | Cornelia Engelbrecht | Television film |
| The Lion in Winter[3] | Eleanor of Aquitaine | ||
| Freedom: A History of US | Eliza Andrews, Mary Antin | PBS Documentary | |
| 2004 | The West Wing | Evelyn Baker Lang | Episode: "The Supremes" |
| Strip Search | Karen Moore | Television film | |
| 2005 | The Shield | Captain Monica Rawling | Main role; 13 episodes (season 4) |
| 2007–2012 | Damages[4] | Patricia "Patty" Hewes | Main role; 59 episodes |
| 2015 | Louie | Woman | Episode: "Sleepover" |
| 2016 | Family Guy | Herself (voice) | Episode: "A Lot Going on Upstairs" |
| 2017 | Sea Oak | Aunt Bernie | Pilot; also executive producer |
| 2018–2019 | 3Below: Tales of Arcadia | Mothership (voice) | 22 episodes |
| 2020 | Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time | Herself - Clue Giver / Video Clue Presenter | 2 episodes |
| 2022 | The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window | Woman in the seat 2A | Episode: "Episode 8"; Cameo[5] |
| 2022 | Tehran | Marjan Montazami | Main role (season 2) |
| 2024 | The New Look | Carmel Snow | 3 episodes |
| 2025–present | All's Fair | Dina Standish | Main role; also executive producer[6] |
| 2026 | Hollywood Squares | Self | Panelist; 2 episodes[7] |
| Up to No Good † | Maud Oldcastle | Main role; upcoming series Also executive producer[8] | |
| TBA | Standing By † | TBA | Upcoming series[9] |
Documentaries
| Year | Title | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1988 | American Experience | Executive producer |
| 1990 | Divine Garbo | Host |
| 1992 | Broken Hearts, Broken Homes | Executive producer |
| 1999 | The Lady with the Torch | Host |
| 2003 | In Search of the Jaguar | Narrator |
| What I Want My Words to Do to You | ||
| A Closer Walk | ||
| 2007 | Gabon: The Last Eden | |
| 2009 | Home | |
| 2010 | Pax | Executive producer and director |
| 2011 | Not My Life | Narrator |
| 2012 | Love, Marilyn | |
| Casting By | Herself | |
| 2015 | Mind/Game: The Unquiet Journey of Chamique Holdsclaw | Narrator |
| 2016 | Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age | Herself |
| 2021 | The Me You Can't See |
Stage
| Year | Title | Role(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | Love for Love | Angelica | Broadway play (New Phoenix Rep at Helen Hayes Theatre) |
| The Rules of the Game | Neighbour | ||
| Rex | Princess Mary | ||
| The Member of the Wedding | Janice | ||
| 1975 | King Lear | Cordelia | Milwaukee Repertory Theatre |
| 1976 | A Streetcar Named Desire | Stella Kowalski | McCarter Theatre |
| 1977 | The Crazy Locomotive | Sophia Tenser / Jeanne Cackleson[10] | Off-Broadway (Chelsea Theater Center) |
| Uncommon Women and Others | Leilah[11] | Off-Broadway (Phoenix Theatre) | |
| 1978 | The Crucifer of Blood | Irene St. Claire | Helen Hayes Theatre |
| 1979 | Wine Untouched | Off-Broadway (Clurman Theater) (Marymount Manhattan Theatre) | |
| The Winter Dancers | Kettle[12] | ||
| 1980 | Barnum | Chairy Barnum | St. James Theatre |
| 1981 | Uncle Vanya | Elena | Yale Repertory Theatre |
| 1982 | The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs | Albert Nobbs | Off-Broadway (Manhattan Theater Club) |
| 1983 | The Real Thing | Annie | Plymouth Theatre |
| 1985 | For No Good Reason/Childhood | Off-Broadway (Samuel Beckett Theatre) | |
| Joan of Arc at the Stake | Concert (Theatre of the Church of the Heavenly Rest)[13] | ||
| Benefactors | Jane | Brooks Atkinson Theatre | |
| 1991 | Brooklyn Laundry | Los Angeles (Coronet Theatre) | |
| 1992 | Death and the Maiden | Paulina Salas | Brooks Atkinson Theatre |
| 1993 | Sunset Boulevard | Norma Desmond | Shubert Theatre |
| 1994 | Minskoff Theatre | ||
| 2002 | A Streetcar Named Desire | Blanche DuBois | National Theatre |
| 2003 | The Play What I Wrote | Mystery Guest Star | Lyceum Theatre |
| 2006 | Busker Alley | Dame Libby St. Albans | Off-Broadway musical at the Kaye Playhouse Theater at Hunter College (one-performance benefit concert) |
| 2010 | The Normal Heart | Dr. Emma Brookner | Walter Kerr Theatre (one-performance benefit concert) |
| 2012 | Into the Woods | The Giant (pre-recorded voice) | Delacorte Theater |
| 2013 | The Pirates of Penzance | Ruth | |
| 2014 | A Delicate Balance | Agnes | John Golden Theatre |
| 2016 | Sunset Boulevard | Norma Desmond | London Coliseum |
| 2017 | Palace Theatre | ||
| 2018 | Mother of the Maid | Isabelle Romée | The Public Theater |
Commercials
| Year | Organization | Title | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Booking.com | Tina Fey Books Whoever She Wants to Be | [14] |
Video game
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Quest for the Code | Chalktisha | Voice |
Theme park attractions
| Year | Title | Role | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind | Nova Prime Irani Rael | Epcot |