Glenn Close
Birthday: 1947-03-19
Birthplace: Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
Gender: Female
Drafted: 119
Drafted By: Calvin and Nobbs
Owned By: Calvin and Nobbs
Owned Wins: 0
Owned Noms: 2
Win Bonus: 4
Nom Bonus: 4
Total Points: 14
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.
Career Statisics
| Season | Age | Movie | Role | Result | Points | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 36 | The World According to Garp (1982) | Supporting Actress | Nom | 0 | |
| 1984 | 37 | The Big Chill (1983) | Supporting Actress | Nom | 0 | |
| 1985 | 38 | The Natural (1984) | Supporting Actress | Nom | 0 | |
| 1988 | 41 | Fatal Attraction (1987) | Leading Actress | Nom | 0 | |
| 1989 | 42 | Dangerous Liaisons (1988) | Leading Actress | Nom | 0 | |
| 2012 | 65 | Albert Nobbs (2011) | Leading Actress | Nom | 0 | |
| 2019 | 72 | The Wife (2018) | Lead Actress | Nom | 7 | |
| 2021 | 74 | Hillbilly Elegy (2020) | Supporting Actress | Nom | 7 | |
| Career | 14 |
Transaction History
| Date | Location | Team | Receives | Team | Receives | Team | Receives |
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Credits
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Encore | Marie | |
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Sunset Boulevard | Norma Desmond | |
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2026-11-18 | The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping | Drusilla Sickle |
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2026-10-02 | The Black Ball | |
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2026-05-01 | Animal Farm | Frieda Pilkington (voice) |
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2025-11-26 | Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery | Martha Delacroix |
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2025-01-31 | The Summer Book | Grandmother |
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2025-01-15 | Back in Action | Ginny |
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2024-10-10 | Brothers | Cath Munger |
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2024-08-16 | The Deliverance | Alberta Jackson |
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2023-08-09 | Heart of Stone | King of Diamonds |
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2021-12-17 | Swan Song | Dr. Eve Scott |
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2021-06-13 | Show of Titles | "Dance a Little Closer" Performer |
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2021-04-30 | Four Good Days | Deb |
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2021-01-14 | Baba Yaga | Chief (voice) |
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2020-11-09 | Hillbilly Elegy | Bonnie "Mamaw" Vance |
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2020-10-30 | In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover | Cruella de Vil |
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2020-10-08 | The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America | Roy Cohn |
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2018-12-06 | Let's Dance | Segment: "Night Shift" |
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2017-12-21 | Father Figures | Helen Baxter |
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2017-09-15 | The Wilde Wedding | Eve Wilde |
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2017-09-06 | Crooked House | Lady Edith de Haviland |
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2017-08-18 | What Happened to Monday | Nicolette Cayman |
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2017-08-17 | The Wife | Joan Castleman |
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2016-09-23 | The Girl with All the Gifts | Dr. Caroline Caldwell |
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2016-05-25 | Warcraft | Alodi (uncredited) |
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2016-01-08 | Anesthesia | Marcia Zarrow |
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2015-10-05 | The Great Gilly Hopkins | Nonnie Hopkins |
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2014-07-30 | Guardians of the Galaxy | Nova Prime |
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2014-04-19 | 5 to 7 | Arlene Bloom |
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2014-01-19 | Low Down | Gram |
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2011-12-21 | Albert Nobbs | Albert Nobbs |
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2011-04-29 | Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil | Granny (voice) |
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2007-06-09 | Evening | Mrs. Wittenborn |
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2005-12-16 | Hoodwinked! | Granny (voice) |
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2005-09-02 | Nine Lives | Maggie |
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2005-07-15 | Heights | Diana |
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2005-06-13 | Tarzan II | Kala (voice) |
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2005-06-08 | The Chumscrubber | Carrie Johnson |
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2004-06-10 | The Stepford Wives | Claire Wellington |
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2004-04-27 | Strip Search | Karen Moore |
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2003-12-26 | The Lion in Winter | Eleanor of Aquitaine |
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2003-08-08 | Le Divorce | Olivia Pace |
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2003-01-01 | Brush with Fate | Cornelia Engelbrecht |
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2002-10-25 | The Safety of Objects | Esther Gold |
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2001-03-26 | South Pacific | Nellie Forbush |
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2001-01-20 | The Ballad of Lucy Whipple | Arvella Whipple |
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2000-10-27 | Welcome to Hollywood | Glenn Close |
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2000-10-08 | Baby | Adult Sophie (Voice) |
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2000-10-07 | 102 Dalmatians | Cruella de Vil |
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2000-05-27 | Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her | Dr. Elaine Keener (segments "This is Dr. Keener" and "Fantasies about Rebecca") |
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1999-11-20 | Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End | Sarah Witting |
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1999-06-17 | Tarzan | Kala (voice) |
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1999-03-24 | Cookie's Fortune | Camille Dixon |
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1997-09-10 | In & Out | Glenn Close |
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1997-07-25 | Air Force One | Kathryn Bennett |
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1997-04-20 | In the Gloaming | Janet |
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1997-02-11 | Paradise Road | Adrienne Pargiter |
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1996-12-13 | Mars Attacks! | Marsha Dale |
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1996-11-27 | 101 Dalmatians | Cruella de Vil |
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1996-02-23 | Mary Reilly | Mrs. Farraday |
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1995-06-08 | Anne Frank Remembered | Diary Readings (voice) |
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1995-01-23 | Serving in Silence - The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story | Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer |
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1994-03-18 | The Paper | Alicia Clark |
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1993-10-21 | The House of the Spirits | Ferula Trueba |
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1993-02-07 | Skylark | Sarah Witting |
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1992-12-26 | Lincoln | Mary Todd Lincoln (voice) |
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1991-09-18 | Meeting Venus | Karin Anderson |
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1991-04-10 | Hook | Gutless |
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1991-02-03 | Sarah, Plain and Tall | Sarah Wheaton |
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1990-12-19 | Hamlet | Gertrude |
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1989-10-27 | Immediate Family | Linda Spector |
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1988-12-21 | Dangerous Liaisons | Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil |
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1988-01-29 | Stones for Ibarra | Sara Everton |
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1987-09-18 | Fatal Attraction | Alexandra "Alex" Forrest |
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1985-10-04 | Jagged Edge | Teddy Barnes |
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1985-09-27 | Maxie | Jan / Maxie |
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1984-05-11 | The Natural | Iris Gaines |
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1984-04-04 | The Stone Boy | Ruth Hillerman |
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1984-03-30 | Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | Miss Jane Porter (voice) (uncredited) |
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1984-01-09 | Something About Amelia | Gail Bennett |
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1983-09-30 | The Big Chill | Sarah Cooper |
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1982-07-23 | The World According to Garp | Jenny Fields |
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1982-01-04 | The Elephant Man | Princess Alexandra |
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1979-12-22 | Orphan Train | Jessica |
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1979-03-12 | Too Far to Go | Rebecca Kuehn |
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1975-04-30 | The Rules of the Game | Neighbor |