Glenn Close

Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (January)

Cast as ruthless litigator Patty Hewes in the FX legal drama, "Damages"; earned a 2008 SAG nomination for Best Actress in a Drama Series

Appeared in Rodrigo Garcia's "Nine Lives," an ensemble feature about nine short, loosely intertwining tales

Joined the cast of FX's "The Shield" in season four, playing the new captain of the Farmington precinct; earned Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for Best Actress in a Drama Series

Cast opposite Nicole Kidman and Bette Midler in the remake of ''The Stepford Wives,'' Bryan Forbes' 1975 cult classic about upper-crust women being replaced by robots with sunny dispositions

Guest starring role as a potential Supreme Court justice on the NBC drama "The West Wing"

Cast opposite Timothy Olyphant in "The Safety of Objects"; screened at Toronto Film Festival

Co-starred with Patrick Stewart in Showtime's remake of "A Lion in Winter," story by James Goldman; received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Actress in a Miniseries or Movie

Produced and starred in the TNT original movie "Rachel Carson's Silent Spring"

Portrayed Nelly Forbush in the small screen remake of "South Pacific" (ABC)

Reprised role of Cruella de Vil in "102 Dalmatians"

Reprised role of Sarah in "Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End," the third installment for CBS and "Hallmark Hall of Fame"

Starred as an eccentric Southerner in Robert Altman's "Cookie's Fortune"

Delivered a delicately nuanced turn as a mother whose son has returned home to die in the HBO movie "In the Gloaming"; directed by Christopher Reeve; received another Emmy nomination

Played the US Vice President coping with a hostage crisis involving the First Family in "Air Force One"

Cast as First Lady to Jack Nicholson's President in "Mars Attacks!"

Portrayed Cruella de Vil in the live-action Disney film, "101 Dalmatians"

Earned a Best Actress Emmy playing Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer who disclosed her lesbianism in NBC's "Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story"; also executive produced

Returned to the musical stage as Norma Desmond in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical version of "Sunset Boulevard"; first played the role in the L.A. production; chosen by Lloyd Webber to star in the Broadway version instead of Patti LuPone who originated the role in London; garnered third Tony Award

Reprised the role of Sarah in the sequel "Skylark" (CBS)

First Broadway role in six years, "Death and the Maiden"; co-starred with Richard Dreyfuss and Gene Hackman; won second Tony Award

First TV-movie as executive producer (also starred in the title role), "Sarah, Plain and Tall" on "Hallmark Hall of Fame"; received Emmy nomination

Made cameo appearance as a male pirate in Steven Spielberg's "Hook"

Cast opposite Jeremy Irons as Sunny von Bulow in "Reversal of Fortune"

Played Gertrude to Mel Gibson's "Hamlet"; directed by Franco Zeffirelli

Associate produced first project (a documentary; also narrated), "Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?" for PBS, the "American Experience" series

Received fifth Oscar nomination and second as Best Actress playing the manipulative Marquise de Merteuil in "Dangerous Liaisons"

Changed image by playing the psychotic Alex in "Fatal Attraction"; earned first Best Actress Academy Award nomination

Appeared on Broadway opposite Sam Waterston in "Benefactors"

Co-starred with William Hurt in the staging of the oratorio "Joan of Arc at the Stake" in NYC

First leading film roles, "Jagged Edge" and "Maxie"

Co-starred with Ted Danson in the ground-breaking ABC TV-movie about incest "Something About Amelia"

Dubbed Andie MacDowell's dialogue in "Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes"

Earned third Oscar nomination for her turn as Robert Redford's girlfriend in "The Natural"

Returned to Broadway as co-star of Tom Stoppard's "The Real Thing"; directed by Mike Nichols and co-starred Jeremy Irons; won first of three Tony Awards

Garnered second Academy Award nomination for "The Big Chill"

Played lead role in the Off-Broadway production "The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs"

Screen acting debut in "The World According to Garp"; received first of three consecutive Oscar nominations as Best Supporting Actress

Portrayed Charity Barnum in the stage musical biography "Barnum"; earned first Tony Award nomination; also appeared in the show's national tour

TV-movie debut in "Too Far to Go" (NBC)

Broadway musical debut as Mary Tudor in the Richard Rodgers-Sheldon Harnick show "Rex"

Joined Phoenix Theatre Company in NYC and made Broadway debut in their production of "Love for Love"

Began performing with repertory group, Fingernails, then toured country with conservative folk-singing group, Up With People for five years before college

Father left to run medical clinics in the Congo (later Zaire) for Moral Rearmament when Close was 13

Recreated her Off-Broadway role in "Albert Nobbs" (lensed 2001); director Istvan Szabo's adaptation of the one-person stage play "The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs"