Glenn Close | |
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![]() Close at the Guardians of the Galaxy premiere in Julie 2014 | |
Born | [1] Greenwich, Connecticut, U.S. | 19 Mairch 1947
Alma mater | College o William & Mary |
Thrift | Actress, producer |
Years active | 1974–present |
Hauf-marrae(s) | Cabot Wade (1969–1971) James Marlas (1984–1987) David Shaw (2006–present) |
Pairtner(s) | John Starke (1987–1991) |
Bairns | 1 (with Starke) |
Pawrents | William Close Bettine Moore Close |
Glenn Close (born 19 Mairch 1947)[1] is an American film, telly an stage actress. She is the recipient o numerous accolades, includin three Tony Awairds, three Gowden Globe Awairds, an three Primetime Emmy Awairds. A seiven-time Academy Awaird nominee, she haes mair nominations withoot a win nor ony ither leevin actor, an hauds the record for bein the actress wi the maist nominations withoot winnin.[2] In 2016, Close wis inducted intae the American Theater Hall of Fame.
Born tae the surgeon William Close in Greenwich, Connecticut, Close majored in theatre an anthropology at the College of William & Mary. She begoud her perfaisional career on stage in 1974 wi Love for Love an wis maistly a New York stage actress till the early 1980s. Her wark includit Broadway productions o Barnum in 1980 an The Real Thing in 1983, for that she wan the Tony Awaird for Best Actress in a Play. Her film debut cam in The World According to Garp (1982), that wis follaed bi supportin roles in the films The Big Chill (1983) an The Natural (1984); aw three earned her nominations for the Academy Awaird for Best Supportin Actress. Close went on to establish hersel wi lead roles in Fatal Attraction (1987) an Dangerous Liaisons (1988), baith o that earned her nominations for the Academy Awaird for Best Actress.
Close wan twa mair Tony Awairds for Death and the Maiden in 1992 an Sunset Boulevard in 1995. She wan her first Primetime Emmy Awaird for the 1995 telly drama film Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story, an she conteena'd a successfu career in Hollywood wi starnin roles in Reversal of Fortune (1990), 101 Dalmatians (1996), an Air Force One (1997), amang ithers. Faur telly wark cam for Close in the 2000s, wi her portrayal o Eleanor o Aquitaine in the 2003 telly film The Lion in Winter earnin her a Golden Globe Awaird. Frae 2007 tae 2012, Close starned as Patty Hewes in the drama series Damages, that won her a Gowden Globe Awaird an twa mair Primetime Emmy Awairds. She returned tae the Broadway stage in a 2014 revival o A Delicate Balance.[3] In this period, she received twa Academy Awaird nominations for Albert Nobbs (2011) an The Wife (2017), an aw wan a third Gowden Globe for the latter.
Close haes been mairied three times, an she haes a dochter frae her relationship wi producer John Starke. She is the preses o Trillium Productions an haes co-foondit the wabsteid FetchDog. She haes made poleetical donations in support o Democratic politeecians, an is vocal on issues sic as gay mairiage, weemen's richts, an mental heal.
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1982 | The World According to Garp | Jenny Fields | |
1983 | The Big Chill | Sarah Cooper | |
1984 | The Natural | Iris Gaines | |
1984 | The Stone Boy | Ruth Hillerman | |
1984 | Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | Jane Porter | Vyce, uncreditit |
1985 | Jagged Edge | Teddy Barnes | |
1985 | Maxie | Jan / Maxie | |
1987 | Fatal Attraction | Alexandra "Alex" Forrest | |
1988 | Dangerous Liaisons | Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil | |
1988 | Light Years | Queen Ambisextra | Vyice |
1989 | Immediate Family | Linda Spector | |
1990 | Reversal of Fortune | Sunny von Bulow | |
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 | Mars Attacks! | First Lady Marsha Dale | |
1996 | 101 Dalmatians | Cruella de Vil | |
1997 | Paradise Road | Adrienne Pargiter | |
1997 | Air Force One | Vice Preses Kathryn Bennett | |
1999 | Cookie's Fortune | Camille Dixon | |
1999 | Tarzan | Kala | Vyce |
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 Gowd | |
2003 | Le Divorce | Olivia Pace | |
2003 | Pinocchio | The Blue Fairy | Vyce; Inglis dub |
2004 | Heights | Diana | |
2004 | The Stepford Wives | Claire Wellington | |
2005 | Tarzan II | Kala | Voice, direct-to-DVD |
2005 | The Chumscrubber | Carrie Johnson | |
2005 | Nine Lives | Maggie | |
2006 | Hoodwinked! | Granny | Vyce |
2007 | Evening | Mrs. Wittenborn | |
2011 | Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil | Granny | Vyce |
2011 | Albert Nobbs | Albert Nobbs | An aa producer, co-writer an author o the lyrics o the sang "Lay Your Head Down" |
2014 | Low Down | Gram | |
2014 | Guardians of the Galaxy | Nova Prime Irani Rael | |
2015 | Anesthesia | Marcia Zarrow | Completit |
TBA | 5 to 7 | Arlene | Completit |
TBA | Always on My Mind | Completit | |
TBA | The Great Gilly Hopkins | Completit |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1975 | The Rules of the Game | Neighbour | TV film |
1979 | Too Far To Go | Rebecca Kuehn | TV film |
1979 | Orphan Train | Jessica | TV film |
1982 | The Elephant Man | Princess Alexandra | TV film |
1984 | Something About Amelia | Gail Bennett | TV film |
1988 | Stones for Ibarra | Sara Everton | TV film |
1991 | Sarah, Plain and Tall | Sarah Wheaton | TV film, an aa executive producer |
1993 | Skylark | Sarah Witting | TV film, an aa executive producer |
1995 | Serving in Silence | Margarethe Cammermeyer | TV film, an aa executive producer |
1995–2014 | The Simpsons | Mona Simpson | 5 episodes |
1997 | In the Gloaming | Janet | TV film |
1999 | Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End | Sarah Witting | TV film, an aa executive producer |
2000 | Baby | Adult Sophie | TV film, narrator |
2001 | The Ballad of Lucy Whipple | Arvella Whipple | TV film, an aa executive producer |
2001 | South Pacific | Nellie Forbush | TV film, an aa executive producer |
2002 | Will & Grace | Fanny Lieber | Episode: "Hocus Pocus" |
2003 | Brush with Fate | Cornelia Engelbrecht | TV film |
2003 | The Lion in Winter | Eleanor of Aquitaine | TV film |
2004 | The West Wing | Evelyn Baker Lang | Episode: "The Supremes" |
2004 | Strip Search | Karen Moore | TV film |
2005 | The Shield | Captain Monica Rawling | Saison 4 (13 episodes) |
2007–2012 | Damages | Patty Hewes | Saisons 1-5 (59 episodes) |