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 (2017), and an eccentric grandmother in Hillbilly Elegy (2020). Her other films include Reversal of Fortune (1990), The Paper (1994), and Mars Attacks! (1996), Air Force One (1997), and Guardians of the Galaxy (2014). Close also portrayed Cruella de Vil in 101 Dalmatians (1996) and its 2000 sequel and voiced Kala in Tarzan (1999).
In television, Close received her first Primetime Emmy Award nomination for her role in the film Something About Amelia (1984) and later won three—Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for portraying Margarethe Cammermeyer in the NBC film Serving in Silence (1995) and Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series twice consecutively for playing Patty Hewes in Damages (2007–2012).
On stage, Close made her Broadway debut in the play Love for Love (1974). She later won three Tony Awards, two for Best Actress in a Play for her roles in the plays The Real Thing (1983) and Death and the Maiden (1992), and one for Best Actress in a Musical for the musical Sunset Boulevard (1995). She was Tony-nominated for Barnum (1980). She returned to the Broadway stage in a 2014 revival of A Delicate Balance. In 2016, she returned to Sunset Boulevard on the West End stage, earning a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical nomination.
Close is the president of Trillium Productions and co-founder of the website FetchDog. She has made political donations in support of Democratic politicians. She is vocal on issues such as women's rights, same-sex marriage, and mental health. Married three times, she has one daughter, Annie Starke, from her relationship with producer John Starke.
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| 1 | The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping (2026) | Drusilla Sickle | - | - |
| 2 | Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) | Martha Delacroix | 7.5 | |
| 3 | The Summer Book (2025) | Grandmother | - | - |
| 4 | Back in Action (2025) | Ginny | 6.5 | |
| 5 | Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (2024) | Self | 8.3 | |
| 6 | Brothers (2024) | Cath Munger | 7.5 | |
| 7 | The Deliverance (2024) | Alberta Jackson | 6 | |
| 8 | Heart of Stone (2023) | King of Diamonds | 6.2 | |
| 9 | Tom Hanks: The Nomad (2023) | Self (archive footage) | 5 | |
| 10 | Baba Yaga (2021) | Chief (voice) | - | - |
| 11 | Swan Song (2021) | Dr. Eve Scott | 7 | |
| 12 | Four Good Days (2021) | Deb | - | - |
| 13 | In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover (2020) | Cruella de Vil | - | - |
| 14 | 537 Votes (2020) | Self (archive footage) | - | - |
| 15 | Hillbilly Elegy (2020) | Bonnie "Mamaw" Vance | 6.5 | |
| 16 | What Happened to Monday (2017) | Nicolette Cayman | 7.2 | |
| 17 | Crooked House (2017) | Lady Edith de Haviland | 6 | |
| 18 | The Wilde Wedding (2017) | Eve Wilde | 4 | |
| 19 | Father Figures (2017) | Helen Baxter | 7 | |
| 20 | The Wife (2017) | Joan Castleman | 7.3 | |
| 21 | The Girl with All the Gifts (2016) | Dr. Caroline Caldwell | 7.1 | |
| 22 | Warcraft (2016) | Alodi (uncredited) | 6.8 | |
| 23 | Anesthesia (2016) | Marcia Zarrow | 6 | |
| 24 | The Great Gilly Hopkins (2015) | Nonnie Hopkins | 7.3 | |
| 25 | Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) Top 100 by FilmGator | Nova Prime | 8.5 | |
| 26 | 5 to 7 (2014) | Arlene Bloom | 6.5 | |
| 27 | Love, Marilyn (2013) | Self | 9 | |
| 28 | Casting By (2012) | Self | - | - |
| 29 | Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012) | (archive footage) | 8 | |
| 30 | Touch of Evil (2011) | The Vamp | - | - |
| 31 | Albert Nobbs (2011) Oscars 2012 | Director / Writer | 6.1 | |
| 32 | Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil (2011) | Granny (voice) | 5.1 | |
| 33 | Evening (2007) | Mrs. Wittenborn | 6 | |
| 34 | The Chumscrubber (2005) | Carrie Johnson | 7.2 | |
| 35 | Hoodwinked! (2005) | Granny (voice) | 6.6 | |
| 36 | Heights (2005) | Diana | - | - |
| 37 | Tarzan II (2005) | Kala (voice) | 5.8 | |
| 38 | Nine Lives (2005) | Maggie | 5 | |
| 39 | The Stepford Wives (2004) | Claire Wellington | 5.8 | |
| 40 | Strip Search (2004) | Karen Moore | - | - |
| 41 | Brush with Fate (2003) | Cornelia Engelbrecht | - | - |
| 42 | The Lion in Winter (2003) | Eleanor of Aquitaine | - | - |
| 43 | Le Divorce (2003) | Olivia Pace | 6 | |
| 44 | The Safety of Objects (2002) | Esther Gold | - | - |
| 45 | The Ballad of Lucy Whipple (2001) | Arvella Whipple | - | - |
| 46 | Baby (2000) | Adult Sophie (Voice) | - | - |
| 47 | Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (2000) | Dr. Elaine Keener (segments "This is Dr. Keener" and "Fantasies about Rebecca") | 7 | |
| 48 | Welcome to Hollywood (2000) | Glenn Close | - | - |
| 49 | 102 Dalmatians (2000) Oscars 2001 | Cruella de Vil | 5.4 | |
| 50 | Tarzan (1999) Oscars 2000 | Kala (voice) | 7.2 | |
| 51 | Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End (1999) | Sarah Witting | 6 | |
| 52 | Cookie's Fortune (1999) | Camille Dixon | - | - |
| 53 | SNL: The Best of Adam Sandler (1999) | Gina (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2 | |
| 54 | In the Gloaming (1997) | Janet | 7 | |
| 55 | Paradise Road (1997) | Adrienne Pargiter | 10 | |
| 56 | Air Force One (1997) Oscars 1998 | Kathryn Bennett | 6.8 | |
| 57 | In & Out (1997) Oscars 1998 | Glenn Close | 5.9 | |
| 58 | Mars Attacks! (1996) | Marsha Dale | 6.3 | |
| 59 | 101 Dalmatians (1996) | Cruella de Vil | 6.3 | |
| 60 | Mary Reilly (1996) | Mrs. Farraday | 5.8 | |
| 61 | Serving in Silence - The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (1995) | Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer | - | - |
| 62 | Anne Frank Remembered (1995) | Diary Readings (voice) | 6 | |
| 63 | The Paper (1994) | Alicia Clark | 7.6 | |
| 64 | Skylark (1993) | Sarah Witting | 6 | |
| 65 | The House of the Spirits (1993) | Ferula Trueba | 7.5 | |
| 66 | Sarah, Plain and Tall (1991) | Sarah Wheaton | 6 | |
| 67 | Hook (1991) | Gutless | 7.3 | |
| 68 | Reversal of Fortune (1990) | Sunny von Bülow / Narrator | 4 | |
| 69 | Hamlet (1990) | Gertrude | 5.8 | |
| 70 | Immediate Family (1989) | Linda Spector | - | - |
| 71 | Dangerous Liaisons (1988) | Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil | 6.6 | |
| 72 | Fatal Attraction (1987) | Alexandra "Alex" Forrest | 7 | |
| 73 | Jagged Edge (1985) | Teddy Barnes | 5.5 | |
| 74 | Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984) | Miss Jane Porter (voice) (uncredited) | 7.2 | |
| 75 | The Natural (1984) | Iris Gaines | 7.3 | |
| 76 | The Big Chill (1983) | Sarah Cooper | 6.6 | |
| 77 | The World According to Garp (1982) | Jenny Fields | 7.3 |
