Glenn Close

Glenn Close in 2023

**Glenn Close** is an American actress who portrayed Alex Forrest in the Paramount Pictures 1987 film *Fatal Attraction*.

## General overview

In a career spanning over four decades, she has garnered numerous accolades, including three Tony Awards, three Emmy Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards. She has been nominated eight times for an Academy Award, sharing the record for most nominations in acting categories without a win with Peter O'Toole. In 2016, she was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame, and in 2019, *Time* magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

Close began her professional career on the stage in 1974 with *Love for Love*. She received her first Tony Award nomination for her role in Barnum and later went on to win three competitive Tony Awards for her roles in the plays *The Real Thing* (1983), and *Death and the Maiden* (1992) and the musical *Sunset Boulevard* (1995). She returned to the Broadway stage in a 2014 revival of *A Delicate Balance*. She reprised her role as Norma Desmond in a West End and Broadway revival in 2016 and 2017 respectively. She has also hosted the Tony Awards twice in 1992 and 1995.

Often regarded as one of the greatest film actors never to have won an Academy Award, Close received eight such nominations for her roles in *The World According to Garp* (1982), *The Big Chill* (1983), *The Natural* (1984), *Dangerous Liaisons* (1988), *Albert Nobbs* (2011), *The Wife* (2017), and *Hillbilly Elegy* (2020). She has also starred in *Jagged Edge* (1985), *Reversal of Fortune* (1990), *Hamlet* (1990), *The House of the Spirits* (1993), *The Paper* (1994), *Mars Attacks!* (1996), and *Air Force One* (1997). She also portrayed Cruella de Vil in *101 Dalmatians* (1996) and its sequel *102 Dalmatians* (2000).

For her work on television she won her first Primetime Emmy Award for her performance in the television film *Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story* (1995). For her portrayal of Eleanor of Aquitaine in the Showtime television film *The Lion in Winter* (2003) she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film. From 2007 to 2012, Close starred as Patty Hewes in the drama series *Damages*, for which she received two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series.

In 2021, Close served as an executive producer alongside Emma Stone for *Cruella*, a Disney live-action spin-off/prequel of *One Hundred and One Dalmatians*, directed by Craig Gillespie. Stone plays the younger version of Cruella de Vil (the titular character whom Close portrayed in the 1996 live-action adaptation and its 2000 sequel).

Close keeps all of her costumes after completing films and rents them out to exhibits. She lent one of the dresses she wore in *Dangerous Liaisons* to Madonna for her 1990 VMA performance of "Vogue". In 2017, she donated her entire costume collection to Indiana University Bloomington.

## Promotional

Fatal Attraction Reunion Interview'Fatal Attraction' Reunion ft. Michael Douglas and Glenn Close (2017) - PEOPLEGlenn Close - Full Address and Q&A - Oxford Union
## External links

* Glenn Close on the Internet Movie Database
* Glenn Close on Wikipedia
* Glenn Close (@glennclose) on Instagram

## References

1. ↑ Disney’s Live-Action ‘Cruella’ Finds Director - Hollywood Reporter
2. ↑ Muscarelle Museum announces Glenn Close costume exhibition - WM
3. ↑ 'The Art of the Character': Actress Glenn Close visits IU exhibit of her costumes - Herald Times Online