Glenn Close

Close, an eight-time Academy Award nominee made her feature film debut in George Roy Hill’s The World According to Garp, earning her awards from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the National Board of Review as well as her first Academy Award nomination. She was subsequently Oscar-nominated for The Big Chill, The Natural, Fatal Attraction (also a Golden Globe nomination), Stephen Frears’ Dangerous Liaisons (for which she was also a BAFTA nominee), Albert Nobbs, The Wife and Hillbilly Elegy.

Close most recently appeared in Rian Johnson’s Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery and Ryan Murphy’s All’s Fair and will next be seen in The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, La Bola Negra directed by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, and Playground’s Eight Part Limited Series Up To No Good. Additional recent works include the Apple TV+ series The New Look, Lee Daniels’ The Deliverance; Seth Gordon’s Back in Action; and Max Barbakow’s Brothers. She starred in season 2 of the Apple TV+ espionage thriller series Tehran and in the 2021 Apple Original film Swan Song opposite Mahershala Ali for director Benjamin Cleary.

For her performance in the title role of The Wife, Close won 2019 Golden Globe, SAG, Independent Spirit, and Critics Choice Awards as “Best Actress,” as well as nominations from BAFTA, the Gotham Awards, and the London Film Critics, along with her seventh Oscar nomination.

For her performance in the title role of Albert Nobbs, Close received her sixth Academy Award nomination along with Golden Globe and SAG nominations. Additionally, she wrote the screenplay with (Man Booker prize-winning novelist) John Banville; was a producer on the film; and composed the lyrics for the Golden Globe and World Soundtrack-nominated song, “Lay Your Head Down.” Internationally, for Albert Nobbs, she received the Irish Film and Television Award (IFTA) as “Best Foreign Actress,” was voted “Best Actress” at the 2011 Tokyo International Film Festival and was honored for her performance by the San Sebastian Film Festival (Donostia Award), Hollywood Film Festival, Mill Valley Film Festival and the Palm Springs Film Festival.

Her additional film credits include Richard Marquand’s Jagged Edge, Barbet Schroeder’s Reversal of Fortune, Franco Zeffirelli’s Hamlet, István Szabó’s Meeting Venus, Maxie (Golden Globe nomination), Ron Howard’s The Paper, Stephen Herek’s 101 Dalmatians (Golden Globe Nomination), Kevin Lima’s 102 Dalmatians, Wolfgang Petersen’s Air Force One, Robert Altman’s Cookie’s Fortune, Rose Troche’s The Safety of Objects, Merchant Ivory’s Le Divorce, Chris Terrio’s Heights, Rodrigo García’s Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her and Nine Lives, Evening, Low Down, 5 to 7, Anesthesia, The Great Gilly

Hopkins, James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy, Julian Fellow’s adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Crooked House, What Happened to Monday, The Girl With All the Gifts and Four Good Days with co-star Mila Kunis, for frequent collaborator, writer/director Rodrigo Garcia.

From 2008 through 2012, Close headlined the critically acclaimed original legal thriller, Damages. For her riveting portrayal of high-stakes litigator ‘Patty Hewes’ Close won two consecutive Emmys (2008 and 2009), two subsequent Emmy nominations, a Golden Globe Award (2008) and three SAG Award nominations, all as “Best Actress in a Drama Series”.

Close has a total of 16 Golden Globe nominations and 3 wins among her film and television performances. Close has a total of 14 Emmy nominations and 3 wins. Her third Emmy win was “Outstanding

Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Special” for Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story. As Executive Producer, she also received an “Outstanding Made For Television Movie”. Emmy nomination, and the prestigious Peabody Award.

Other television credits include The Shield (Emmy and Golden Globe nominations), The Lion in Winter (Golden Globe Award, SAG Award, Emmy nomination), The Elephant Man, Something About Amelia (Emmy and Golden Globe nominations), Stones for Ibarra, The Ballad of Lucy Whipple and In the Gloaming (Emmy nomination, CableACE Award). She executive produced and starred in Richard Pearce’s musical remake of South Pacific for ABC TV . She also executive produced the Sarah, Plain and Tall trilogy for the Hallmark Hall of Fame, starring in all three opposite Christopher Walken. For the trilogy she received both “Lead Actress” and “Outstanding Drama” Emmy nominations as well as a Golden Globe nomination for Sarah, Plain and Tall and a “Lead Actress” Emmy nomination for Skylark.

Close made her theatre, and Broadway, debut in Harold Prince’s revival of Love for Love. Her theater credits include The Crucifer of Blood, The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs (Obie Award), Barnum (Tony nomination) and Tony Awards for her performances in The Real Thing and Death and the Maiden, both directed by Mike Nichols, and Sunset Boulevard (also Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards). In London, she reteamed with the director of the original Sunset Boulevard stage production, Trevor Nunn, in his Royal National Theatre revival of A Streetcar Named Desire. She returned to Broadway for the 2014 revival production of Edward Albee’s A Delicate Balance.

In 2017, Close reprised the role that won her the 1995 Tony Award: Norma Desmond in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Sunset Boulevard, in a newly-conceived and mounted production that premiered at the London Coliseum in the Spring of 2016 (prior to a Broadway run). For that performance she won a London Evening Standard Award and an Olivier nomination.

In 2010, Close co-founded Bring Change to Mind, a charity dedicated to ending the systemic stigma and discrimination around mental illness. The organization’s top priority is the establishment of stigma-free Bring Change To Mind High School clubs around the nation, and they are on track to have clubs in 550 high schools by fall of this year. The idea for the organization came about following Close’s first-hand observation of battles with mental illness within her family. For more information, please visit www.Bringchange2mind.org.

Close actively supports Puppies Behind Bars. She is a trustee emeritus of The Sundance Institute, having served as a board member for 16 years.