Glenn Close on screen and stage

Last updated February 14, 2024

Glenn Close is an American actress, screenwriter and film producer with an extensive career in film, television, and stage. She began her professional career on stage in 1974 with Love for Love and was mostly a New York stage actress 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. 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, while being also well known for her portrayal as the villainous Cruella de Vil in 101 Dalmatians (1996) and the sequel 102 Dalmatians (2000). Further television work came for Close in the 2000s, with her portrayal of Eleanor of Aquitaine in the 2003 television film The Lion in Winter earning her a Golden Globe Award. From 2007 to 2012, Close starred as Patty Hewes in the drama series Damages , which won her a Golden Globe Award and two Primetime Emmy Awards. She returned to the Broadway stage in a 2014 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), winning a third Golden Globe for the latter. In 2020, she starred in Hillbilly Elegy and received her fourth Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress, her eight nomination overall, making her one of the five most-nominated actresses in Academy history.

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
1985	Maxie	Jan Cheyney / Maxie Malone
1987	Fatal Attraction	Alexandra "Alex" Forrest
1988	Dangerous Liaisons	Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil
1988	Light Years	Queen Ambisextra	Voice
1989	Immediate Family	Linda Spector
1990	Reversal of Fortune	Martha "Sunny" von Bülow
1990	Hamlet	Queen Gertrude
1991	Hook	Gutless	Cameo
1991	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
1999	Cookie's Fortune	Camille Dixon
1999	Tarzan	Kala	Voice
2000	102 Dalmatians	Cruella de Vil
2000	Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her	Dr. Elaine Keener
2001	The Safety of Objects	Esther Gold
2003	Le Divorce	Olivia Pace
2003	Pinocchio	The Blue Fairy	Voice
2004	Heights	Diana
2004	The Stepford Wives	Claire Wellington
2005	Tarzan II	Kala	Voice, direct-to-DVD
	The Chumscrubber	Carrie Johnson
	Nine Lives	Maggie
2006	Hoodwinked!	Granny	Voice
2007	Evening	Mrs. Wittenborn
2011	Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil	Granny	Voice
2011	Albert Nobbs	Albert Nobbs	Also writer and producer
2014	Low Down	Gram
2014	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
2016	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
2020	Hillbilly Elegy	Bonnie "Mamaw" Vance
2021	Cruella	—	Executive producer
2021	Swan Song	Dr. Scott
2023	Heart of Stone	King of Diamonds	Cameo
2024	The Deliverance	Morgan	Post-production
2024	Back in Action	TBA	Post-production^[2]
TBD	Brothers	TBA	Post-production^[3]

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1975	Great Performances	Neighbor	Episode: "The Rules of the Game"
1979	Too Far to Go	Rebecca Kuehn	Television film
1979	Orphan Train	Jessica
1982	The Elephant Man	Princess Alexandra
1984	Something About Amelia	Gail Bennett
1988	Stones for Ibarra	Sara Everton
1989–1992	Saturday Night Live	Herself (host)	2 episodes
1991	Sarah, Plain and Tall	Sarah Wheaton	Television film, also executive producer
1993	Skylark	Sarah Witting
1995	Serving in Silence	Margarethe Cammermeyer
1995	Inside the Actors Studio	Herself	Season 2, episode 4
1995–2021	The Simpsons	Mona Simpson (voice)	11 episodes
1996–1998	The Little Lulu Show	Mrs. Van Snobbe Mrs. Hoggenswallow	Voice; 9 episodes
1997	In the Gloaming	Janet	Television film
1999	Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End	Sarah Witting	Television film, also executive producer
2000	Baby	Adult Sophie	Television film, narrator, also executive producer
2001	The Ballad of Lucy Whipple	Arvella Whipple	Television film, also executive producer
2001	South Pacific	Nellie Forbush	Television film, also executive producer
2002	Will & Grace	Fanny Lieber	Episode: "Hocus Focus"
2003	Brush with Fate	Cornelia Engelbrecht	Television film
2003	The Lion in Winter ^[4]	Eleanor of Aquitaine	Television film
2004	The West Wing	Evelyn Baker Lang	Episode: "The Supremes"
2004	Strip Search	Karen Moore	Television film
2005	The Shield	Captain Monica Rawling	Main role; 13 episodes (season 4)
2007–2012	Damages ^[5]	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 ^[6]
2022	Tehran	Marjan Montazeri	Main role; season 2
2024	The New Look	Carmel Snow	3 episodes

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
2015	Mind/Game: The Unquiet Journey of Chamique Holdsclaw
2016	Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age	Herself
2021	The Me You Can't See	Herself

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
	The Member of the Wedding	Janice
1976	Rex	Princess Mary	Broadway musical (Lunt-Fontanne Theatre)
1977	The Crazy Locomotive	Sophia Tenser / Jeanne Cackleson^[7]	Off-Broadway (Chelsea Theater Center)
1977	Uncommon Women and Others	Leilah^[8]	Off-Broadway
1978	The Crucifer of Blood	Irene St. Claire	Broadway play (Helen Hayes Theatre)
1979	Wine Untouched		Off-Broadway
1979	The Winter Dancers	Kettle^[9]	Off-Broadway
1980	Barnum	Chairy Barnum	Broadway musical (St. James Theatre)
1981	Uncle Vanya	Elena	Yale Repertory Theatre
1982	The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs	Albert Nobbs	Off-Broadway
1983	The Real Thing	Annie	Broadway play (Plymouth Theatre)
1985	For No Good Reason/Childhood		Off-Broadway
	Joan of Arc at the Stake		Concert^[10]
	Benefactors	Jane	Broadway play (Brooks Atkinson Theatre)
1991	Brooklyn Laundry		Los Angeles
1992	Death and the Maiden	Paulina Salas	Broadway play (Brooks Atkinson Theatre)
1993	Sunset Boulevard	Norma Desmond	Shubert Theatre, Los Angeles (musical)
1994	Sunset Boulevard	Norma Desmond	Broadway musical (Minskoff Theatre)
2002	A Streetcar Named Desire	Blanche DuBois	London (National Theatre)
2003	The Play What I Wrote	Mystery Guest Star	Broadway musical (Lyceum Theatre)
2006	Busker Alley	Dame Libby St. Albans	Off-Broadway musical (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
2014	A Delicate Balance	Agnes	Broadway play (John Golden Theatre)
2016	Sunset Boulevard	Norma Desmond	West End (London Coliseum)
2017	Sunset Boulevard	Norma Desmond	Broadway Revival (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	^[11]

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

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↑ "What Play Can Come Along Next Season That Will Be More Star-Studded Than A Delicate Balance?".
↑ Kroll, Justin (November 15, 2022). "Kyle Chandler And Glenn Close Join Cameron Diaz And Jamie Foxx In Netflix's Back In Action". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved March 3, 2023.
↑ Davis, Clayton (August 29, 2022). "Brendan Fraser's 12 Best Performances: From 'The Mummy' to 'Encino Man'". Variety . Retrieved November 25, 2022.
↑ Patterson, John; McLean, Gareth (May 20, 2006). "Feature: The golden age of TV". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved April 25, 2019.
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↑ Thoman, Lauren (January 28, 2022). "The End of The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window Explained". Looper. Retrieved January 29, 2022.
↑ "The Crazy Locomotive". www.iobdb.com. Retrieved June 20, 2021.
↑ "Uncommon Women and Others". www.iobdb.com. Retrieved June 20, 2021.
↑ "The Winter Dancers". www.iobdb.com. Retrieved June 20, 2021.
↑ Holland, Bernard (May 5, 1985). "CONCERT: 'JOAN OF ARC' BY HONEGGER". The New York Times . New York City. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved September 21, 2016.
↑ "Tina Fey Reunites With '30 Rock' Co-Stars in Booking.com Super Bowl Ad". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved February 10, 2024.

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[broadwaybox.com-1] "What Play Can Come Along Next Season That Will Be More Star-Studded Than A Delicate Balance?".

[2] Kroll, Justin (November 15, 2022). "Kyle Chandler And Glenn Close Join Cameron Diaz And Jamie Foxx In Netflix's Back In Action". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved March 3, 2023.

[3] Davis, Clayton (August 29, 2022). "Brendan Fraser's 12 Best Performances: From 'The Mummy' to 'Encino Man'". Variety . Retrieved November 25, 2022.

[4] Patterson, John; McLean, Gareth (May 20, 2006). "Feature: The golden age of TV". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved April 25, 2019.

[5] MAKERS. "Glenn Close". MAKERS. Retrieved April 25, 2019.

[6] Thoman, Lauren (January 28, 2022). "The End of The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window Explained". Looper. Retrieved January 29, 2022.

[7] "The Crazy Locomotive". www.iobdb.com. Retrieved June 20, 2021.

[8] "Uncommon Women and Others". www.iobdb.com. Retrieved June 20, 2021.

[9] "The Winter Dancers". www.iobdb.com. Retrieved June 20, 2021.

[10] Holland, Bernard (May 5, 1985). "CONCERT: 'JOAN OF ARC' BY HONEGGER". The New York Times . New York City. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved September 21, 2016.

[11] "Tina Fey Reunites With '30 Rock' Co-Stars in Booking.com Super Bowl Ad". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved February 10, 2024.

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