
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.

Nos Bastidores de Hollywood

The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful

Hollywood's Greatest Villains

Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music

The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America

Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall

Sunset Boulevard: A Look Back

Hallmark Hall of Fame

My Dog: An Unconditional Love Story

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The Shield

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

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Gabon The Last Eden

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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

Anne Frank Remembered

Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary

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Final Cut: Hölgyeim és uraim

Inside the Actors Studio

ミッシング・スリー: アルカディア物語

Damages

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ファミリー・ガイ

Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End

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ナイブズ・アウト: ウェイク・アップ・デッドマン

What I Want My Words to Do to You

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ゴールデングローブ賞

危険な関係

スワン・ソング

5 to 7

Sarah, Plain and Tall

The Summer Book

セブン・シスターズ

In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover

Six by Sondheim

537 Votes

天才作家の妻 40年目の真実

Skylark

Discovering Hamlet

Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Royal Albert Hall Celebration

Baby

MADtv

アカデミー賞

サタデー・ナイト・ライブ

愛と精霊の家

The Stone Boy

Casting By

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ふたりは友達? ウィル&グレイス

危険な情事

再会の時

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SNL: The Best of Adam Sandler

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ヒルビリー・エレジー -郷愁の哀歌-

ガープの世界

運命の逆転

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Celebrity IOU

窓辺の女の向かいの家の女

American Experience

The Great Gilly Hopkins

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マリリン・モンロー 瞳の中の秘密

The Chumscrubber

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イン&アウト

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マーズ・アタック!

The Safety of Objects

Paradise Road

グレイストーク -類人猿の王者- ターザンの伝説

Sea Oak

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アガサ・クリスティー ねじれた家

アルバート氏の人生

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Cookie's Fortune

Glenn Close, l'art de la transformation

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Heights

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Strip Search

Boulevard! A Hollywood Story

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Hollywood Squares

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

Let's Dance

C à vous

Ellen

Nine Lives

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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Andrew Lloyd Webber: Tribute to a Superstar

Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration

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デリヴァランス -悪霊の家-

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In the Gloaming

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The Lion in Winter

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Brush with Fate

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Great Performances

Immediate Family

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彼女を見ればわかること

Anesthesia

ミーティング・ヴィーナス

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The Elephant Man

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The Lavender Scare

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Something About Amelia

Tom Hanks: The Nomad

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Serving in Silence - The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story

The Ballad of Lucy Whipple

Wetten, dass..?

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オール・イズ・フェア 女神たちの法廷

リトル・レッド2 ~ヘンゼルとグレーテル誘拐事件!?~

The Wilde Wedding

Desus & Mero

This Morning

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

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South Pacific

Maxie

Orphan Train

The Big Chill: A Reunion

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

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The Rosie O'Donnell Show

Welcome to Hollywood

Too Far to Go

Baba Yaga

Not My Life

The Divine Garbo

Gates of the Arctic

The Lady with the Torch

Stones for Ibarra

The Rules of the Game

Electric Blue 29

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age

An Amazin Era: Revised and Updated

Show of Titles

An Amazin' Era

Animal Farm

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping

Sunset Boulevard

La bola negra

Glenn Close: A Feminist Force

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