Glenn Close

Born on March 19, 1947, American talent Glenn Close is known as one of the unforgettable faces of the silver screen and stage. He managed to capture the hearts of the audience with the impressive performances he displayed throughout his artistic life.

Close's nomination journey to the Academy Awards is quite remarkable. She had a special place in the history of cinema by being nominated in the Best Supporting Actress category three times in a row in 1982, 1983 and 1984. He received these nominations with important productions such as "The World According to Garp", "The Big Chill" and "The Natural".

Then, in 1987 and 1988, she reinforced her success by being nominated in the Best Actress category for the films "Fatal Attraction" and "Dangerous Liaisons".

Glenn Close was born on March 19, 1947 in Greenwich, Connecticut, USA. The daughter of a surgeon father and a high-society mother, Close spent part of her childhood in the Belgian Congo and Switzerland due to her father's work. Although he joined a conservative group called "Moral Re-Armament" with his family in his youth, he left the group at the age of 22 and gained his freedom and studied theater and anthropology at the College of William & Mary.

Close, who started her professional career on the Broadway stage in 1974, quickly won the Tony Award with her outstanding performances in the theater.

His entry into the world of cinema was quite spectacular; She was directly nominated for an Oscar in the Best Supporting Actress category for her first film, "The World According to Garp" (1982), directed by George Roy Hill. This success was followed by the films "The Big Chill" (1983) and "The Natural" (1984), thus becoming one of the rare actors to be nominated for an Oscar three years in a row with the first three films of his career.

However, it was the 1987 film "Fatal Attraction" that took Glenn Close away from her "good-hearted woman" roles and turned her into a worldwide phenomenon. The character of obsessed lover Alex Forrest, played in this film, has become one of the most iconic "evil woman" figures in cinema history. She demonstrated her dramatic depth and versatility with her role as the scheming Marquise de Merteuil in the period drama Dangerous Liaisons (1988).

Close, who also appeared in productions that appealed to mass audiences in the 1990s, left an indelible mark on popular culture with her exaggerated and stylized performance as Cruella de Vil in Disney's "101 Dalmatians" (1996) and its sequel. The master actress, who took the television world by storm in the 2000s, won two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe for her role as the ruthless lawyer Patty Hewes in the legal thriller "Damages" (2007-2012), in which she starred after the detective series "The Shield".

Close, who made strong returns to cinema later in her career, played a woman disguised as a man in 19th century Ireland in her passion project "Albert Nobbs" (2011), for which she also wrote and produced the script. She won a Golden Globe and came very close to an Oscar for her performance in the critically acclaimed "The Wife" (2017).

Glenn Close, who was nominated for the Academy Award for the eighth time for her role in "Hillbilly Elegy" (2020), currently holds the record for the living actress with the most nominations in Oscar history without winning the award. In addition to his acting, he is the founder of the non-profit organization "Bring Change to Mind" and an active activist, fighting prejudices about mental health.

Productions in which he took part

He took part in a total of 198 productions; 12 of the most well-known are listed.

• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2015) — Self - Guest
• Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (2009) — Self - Guest
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2014)
• The Simpsons (1989) — Mona Simpson (voice)
• Late Night with Seth Meyers (2014)
• Family Guy (1999) — Glenn Close (voice)
• The View (1997)
• Saturday Night Live (1975) — Self - Host
• The Graham Norton Show (2007)
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993) — Self - Guest
• The West Wing (1999) — Evelyn Baker Lang
• Leute heute (1997)

Production and imprint information was taken from TMDB.