Biography
Seemingly born atop the Hollywood A-list, actress Glenn Close established herself as one of the finest performers of her generation - or any other, for that matter - with her first film, "The World According to Garp" (1982), for which she earned the first of several Oscar nominations. For the rest of the 1980s, Close quickly became a top leading lady who eventually achieved infamy with her portrayal of a psychotic woman avenging a lost affair …
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Career Milestones
2012 | Co-wrote and starred in the period drama "Albert Nobbs," based on the short story by George Moore; also produced | |
2011 | Reprised role of Granny Puckett in "Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil" | |
2011 | Nominated for the 2011 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series ("Damages") | |
| Nominated for the 2010 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in Drama Series | ||
2009 | Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (January) | |
2007 | Cast as ruthless litigator Patty Hewes in the FX legal drama, "Damages"; earned SAG (2007, 2009), Golden Globe (2009), and Emmy (2010) nominations for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series | |
2006 | Lent her voice to the animated feature, "Hoodwinked!" | |
2005 | Appeared in Rodrigo Garcia's "Nine Lives," an ensemble feature about nine short, loosely intertwining tales | |
2005 | 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 | |
2004 | 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 | |
2004 | Guest starring role as a potential Supreme Court justice on the NBC drama "The West Wing" | |
2003 | 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 | |
2003 | Cast opposite Timothy Olyphant in "The Safety of Objects"; screened at Toronto Film Festival | |
2002 | Produced and starred in the TNT original movie "Rachel Carson's Silent Spring" | |
| 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" | ||
2001 | Portrayed Nelly Forbush in the small screen remake of "South Pacific" (ABC) | |
2000 | Reprised role of Cruella de Vil in "102 Dalmatians" | |
1999 | Reprised role of Sarah in "Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End," the third installment for CBS and "Hallmark Hall of Fame" | |
1999 | Starred as an eccentric Southerner in Robert Altman's "Cookie's Fortune" | |
1997 | Played the US Vice President coping with a hostage crisis involving the First Family in "Air Force One" | |
1997 | 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 | |
1996 | Portrayed Cruella de Vil in the live-action Disney film, "101 Dalmatians" | |
1996 | Cast as First Lady to Jack Nicholson's President in "Mars Attacks!" | |
1995 | 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 | |
1994 | 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 | |
1993 | Reprised the role of Sarah in the sequel "Skylark" (CBS) | |
1992 | First Broadway role in six years, "Death and the Maiden"; co-starred with Richard Dreyfuss and Gene Hackman; won second Tony Award | |
1991 | Made cameo appearance as a male pirate in Steven Spielberg's "Hook" | |
1991 | First TV-movie as executive producer (also starred in the title role), "Sarah, Plain and Tall" on "Hallmark Hall of Fame"; received Emmy nomination | |
1990 | Played Gertrude to Mel Gibson's "Hamlet"; directed by Franco Zeffirelli | |
1990 | Cast opposite Jeremy Irons as Sunny von Bulow in "Reversal of Fortune" | |
1988 | Received fifth Oscar nomination and second as Best Actress playing the manipulative Marquise de Merteuil in "Dangerous Liaisons" | |
1988 | Associate produced first project (a documentary; also narrated), "Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?" for PBS, the "American Experience" series | |
1987 | Changed image by playing the psychotic Alex in "Fatal Attraction"; earned first Best Actress Academy Award nomination | |
1985 | Appeared on Broadway opposite Sam Waterston in "Benefactors" | |
1985 | Co-starred with William Hurt in the staging of the oratorio "Joan of Arc at the Stake" in NYC | |
1985 | First leading film roles, "Jagged Edge" and "Maxie" | |
1984 | 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 | |
1984 | Dubbed Andie MacDowell's dialogue in "Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes" | |
1984 | Earned third Oscar nomination for her turn as Robert Redford's girlfriend in "The Natural" | |
1984 | Co-starred with Ted Danson in the ground-breaking ABC TV-movie about incest "Something About Amelia" | |
1983 | Garnered second Academy Award nomination for "The Big Chill" | |
1982 | Played lead role in the off-Broadway production of "The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs" | |
1982 | Screen acting debut in "The World According to Garp"; received first of three consecutive Oscar nominations as Best Supporting Actress | |
1980 | Portrayed Charity Barnum in the stage musical biography "Barnum"; earned first Tony Award nomination; also appeared in the show's national tour | |
1979 | TV-movie debut in "Too Far to Go" (NBC) | |
1976 | Broadway musical debut as Mary Tudor in the Richard Rodgers-Sheldon Harnick show "Rex" | |
1974 | 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 | ||
Awards
2012 | Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Drama in Damages |
2012 | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in Damages |
2011 | Academy Award for Actress In a Leading Role in Albert Nobbs |
2011 | Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song - Motion Picture in Albert Nobbs |
2011 | Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama in Albert Nobbs |
2011 | Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role in Albert Nobbs |
2011 | Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series in Damages |
2010 | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in Damages |
2010 | Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series in Damages |
2009 | Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Drama in Damages |
2009 | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in Damages |
2008 | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in Damages |
2008 | Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series in Damages |
2007 | Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Drama in Damages |
2005 | Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries in The Lion in Winter |
2005 | Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Drama in The Shield |
2005 | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in The Shield |
2004 | Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television in The Lion in Winter |
2004 | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie in The Lion in Winter |
2002 | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress In a Comedy Series in Will & Grace |
1998 | Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries in In the Gloaming |
1997 | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress In a Miniseries or Special in In the Gloaming |
1996 | Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy Or Musical in 101 Dalmatians |
1996 | Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries in Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story |
1995 | Tony Award for Actress (Musical) |
1995 | Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television in Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story |
1995 | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress In a Miniseries or Special in Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story |
1995 | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Made For Television Movie in Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story |
1993 | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress In a Miniseries or Special in Skylark |
1992 | Tony Award for Actress (Play) |
1991 | Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television in Sarah, Plain and Tall |
1991 | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama/Comedy Special and Miniseries in Sarah, Plain and Tall |
1991 | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress In a Miniseries or Special in Sarah, Plain and Tall |
1989 | BAFTA Award for Actress In a Leading Role in Dangerous Liaisons |
1988 | Academy Award for Actress In a Leading Role in Dangerous Liaisons |
1987 | Academy Award for Actress In a Leading Role in Fatal Attraction |
1987 | Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama in Fatal Attraction |
1985 | Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy Or Musical in Maxie |
1984 | Tony Award for Actress (Play) |
1984 | Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television in Something About Amelia |
1984 | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress In a Limited Series or a Special in Something About Amelia |
1984 | Academy Award for Actress In a Supporting Role in The Natural |
1983 | Academy Award for Actress In a Supporting Role in The Big Chill |
1982 | Academy Award for Actress In a Supporting Role in The World According to Garp |
1982 | Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress in The World According to Garp |
1982 | National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress in The World According to Garp |