Glenn Close
Acting
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Acting Credits
Biography
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 fem...
Known For
Filmography
Animal Farm
2026
as Frieda Pilkington (voice)
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
2026
as Drusilla Sickle
The Black Ball
2026
The Summer Book
2025
as Grandmother
Back in Action
2025
as Ginny
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
2025
as Martha Delacroix
Glenn Close, l'art de la transformation
2025
as Self
Glenn Close: A Feminist Force
2025
as Self - (archive footage)
All's Fair
2025
as Dina Standish
Hollywood Squares
2025
as Self
The Deliverance
2024
as Alberta Jackson
A Look Through His Lens
2024
as Self
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
2024
as Self
Brothers
2024
as Cath Munger
Heart of Stone
2023
as King of Diamonds
Tom Hanks: The Nomad
2023
as Self (archive footage)
The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window
2022
as The Woman in Seat 2A (uncredited)
Baba Yaga
2021
as Chief (voice)
Boulevard! A Hollywood Story
2021
as Self (archive footage)
Four Good Days
2021
as Deb
Swan Song
2021
as Dr. Eve Scott
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
2021
as Self
Show of Titles
2021
as "Dance a Little Closer" Performer
537 Votes
2020
as Self (archive footage)
Hillbilly Elegy
2020
as Bonnie "Mamaw" Vance
In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
2020
as Cruella de Vil
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
2020
as Roy Cohn
Celebrity IOU
2020
as Self
Tehran
2020
as Marjan Montazeri
The Lavender Scare
2019
as Narrator (voice)
Desus & Mero
2019
as Self
Andrew Lloyd Webber: Tribute to a Superstar
2018
as Self
Let's Dance
2018
as Segment: "Night Shift"
3Below: Tales of Arcadia
2018
as Mother (voice)
The Wife
2017
as Joan Castleman
Father Figures
2017
as Helen Baxter
Crooked House
2017
as Lady Edith de Haviland
What Happened to Monday
2017
as Nicolette Cayman
The Wilde Wedding
2017
as Eve Wilde
Sea Oak
2017
as Aunt Bernie
Marcians
2017
as Self - Interviewee
Anesthesia
2016
as Marcia Zarrow
The Girl with All the Gifts
2016
as Dr. Caroline Caldwell
Warcraft
2016
as Alodi (uncredited)
The Great Gilly Hopkins
2015
as Nonnie Hopkins
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self - Guest
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
as Self
Guardians of the Galaxy
2014
as Nova Prime
Low Down
2014
as Gram
5 to 7
2014
as Arlene Bloom
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
as Self
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
as Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
as Self
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
2014
as Self
Love, Marilyn
2013
as Self
Six by Sondheim
2013
as Self (archive footage)
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
as (archive footage)
Casting By
2012
as Self
Finding Your Roots
2012
as Self
Albert Nobbs
2011
as Albert Nobbs
Discovering Hamlet
2011
as Gertrude (archive footage)
Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil
2011
as Granny (voice)
Not My Life
2011
as Narrator (voice)
My Dog: An Unconditional Love Story
2009
as Self
Peter Matthiessen: No Boundaries
2009
as Self - Hostess
C à vous
2009
as Self
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
2009
as Self - Guest
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
as Self - Guest
Gates of the Arctic
2008
as Narrator (voice)
Evening
2007
as Mrs. Wittenborn
Gabon The Last Eden
2007
as Narrator
Damages
2007
as Patty Hewes
The Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self
Hoodwinked!
2005
as Granny (voice)
The Chumscrubber
2005
as Carrie Johnson
Heights
2005
as Diana
Nine Lives
2005
as Maggie
Tarzan II
2005
as Kala (voice)
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005
as Self (archive footage)
Hollywood's Greatest Villains
2005
as Self
The Stepford Wives
2004
as Claire Wellington
Strip Search
2004
as Karen Moore
Tracking 'The Lion in Winter'
2004
as Self
Le Divorce
2003
as Olivia Pace
The Lion in Winter
2003
as Eleanor of Aquitaine
Brush with Fate
2003
as Cornelia Engelbrecht
What I Want My Words to Do to You
2003
as Self
In Search of the Jaguar
2003
as Narrator
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
as Self
The Safety of Objects
2002
as Esther Gold
Sunset Boulevard: A Look Back
2002
as Self
The Shield
2002
as Captain Monica Rawling
South Pacific
2001
as Nellie Forbush
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
2001
as Arvella Whipple
102 Dalmatians
2000
as Cruella de Vil
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
2000
as Dr. Elaine Keener (segments "This is Dr. Keener" and "Fantasies about Rebecca")
Welcome to Hollywood
2000
as Glenn Close
Baby
2000
as Adult Sophie (Voice)
Cookie's Fortune
1999
as Camille Dixon
Tarzan
1999
as Kala (voice)
Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End
1999
as Sarah Witting
SNL: The Best of Adam Sandler
1999
as Gina (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Big Chill: A Reunion
1999
as Self
The Lady with the Torch
1999
as Self - Host
The West Wing
1999
as Evelyn Baker Lang
Family Guy
1999
as Glenn Close (voice)
Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Royal Albert Hall Celebration
1998
as Self - Performer
Will & Grace
1998
as Fannie Lieber
Air Force One
1997
as Kathryn Bennett
In the Gloaming
1997
as Janet
Paradise Road
1997
as Adrienne Pargiter
In & Out
1997
as Glenn Close
The View
1997
as Self
Leute heute
1997
as Self
Mars Attacks!
1996
as Marsha Dale
101 Dalmatians
1996
as Cruella de Vil
Mary Reilly
1996
as Mrs. Farraday
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
1996
as Self
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996
as Self - Guest
Serving in Silence - The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story
1995
as Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer
Anne Frank Remembered
1995
as Diary Readings (voice)
MADtv
1995
as Self
The Paper
1994
as Alicia Clark
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
as Self
Ellen
1994
as Glenn Close
The House of the Spirits
1993
as Ferula Trueba
Skylark
1993
as Sarah Witting
Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration
1993
as Self (segment "Monster in the Mirror")
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
as Self - Guest
Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall
1992
as Self
Lincoln
1992
as Mary Todd Lincoln (voice)
Hook
1991
as Gutless
Sarah, Plain and Tall
1991
as Sarah Wheaton
Meeting Venus
1991
as Karin Anderson
Pebble Mill
1991
as Self
Hamlet
1990
as Gertrude
Reversal of Fortune
1990
as Sunny von Bülow / Narrator
The Divine Garbo
1990
as Self - Host / Narrator
Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music
1990
as Self
Immediate Family
1989
as Linda Spector
Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary
1989
as Self
An Amazin Era: Revised and Updated
1989
as Self
The Simpsons
1989
as Mona Simpson (voice)
Dangerous Liaisons
1988
as Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
1988
as Narrator (voice)
Stones for Ibarra
1988
as Sara Everton
Electric Blue 29
1988
as (archive footage)
This Morning
1988
as Self - Guest
American Experience
1988
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Fatal Attraction
1987
as Alexandra "Alex" Forrest
Rabbit Ears - The Emperor and the Nightingale
1987
as Narrator (voice)
Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?
1987
as Self - Narrator
An Amazin' Era
1986
as Self
Jagged Edge
1985
as Teddy Barnes
Maxie
1985
as Jan / Maxie
The Natural
1984
as Iris Gaines
The Stone Boy
1984
as Ruth Hillerman
Something About Amelia
1984
as Gail Bennett
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
1984
as Miss Jane Porter (voice) (uncredited)
Goldene Kamera
1984
as Self
The Big Chill
1983
as Sarah Cooper
The World According to Garp
1982
as Jenny Fields
The Elephant Man
1982
as Princess Alexandra
Wetten, dass..?
1981
as Self
Orphan Train
1979
as Jessica
Too Far to Go
1979
as Rebecca Kuehn
Please Turn the Page
1977
as Self
The Rules of the Game
1975
as Neighbor
Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Host
Great Performances
1971
as Neighbor
Great Performances
1971
as Self - Host
The Oscars
1953
as Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Sara Everton
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Sarah Wheaton
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Sarah
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Cornelia Englebrecht
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Presenter/Nominee
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Presenter