Glenn Close

Career timeline

1. 1947 · Born

   Born in Greenwich, Connecticut, USA

2. 1951 · Screen debut

   Hallmark Hall of Fame (TV)

3. 1989 · Breakthrough

   The Simpsons (TV)

4. 2011 · Writing debut

   Albert Nobbs (Movie)

5. 2011 · First production

   Albert Nobbs (Movie)

6. 2026 · Latest release

   LA BOLA NEGRA (Movie)

Career in numbers

2 1950s

9 1980s

15 1990s

14 2000s

18 2010s

15 2020s

• Drama40
• Comedy31
• Romance11
• Thriller10
• Crime9
• Family9

Highest-rated title The West Wing 1999 8.3 Most popular title The Simpsons 1989 8.0

Frequent collaborators

People who appear most often alongside Glenn Close in our catalogue.

Lance Henriksen

3 titles together

Martin Short

3 titles together

Stephen Dillane

2 titles together

Naomi Watts

2 titles together

Timothy Olyphant

2 titles together

Andy Dick

2 titles together

Franco Zeffirelli

2 titles together

Cory Edwards

2 titles together

Ralph Fiennes

2 titles together

David Tennant

2 titles together

1. — Standing By Upcoming TV
2. — Encore Upcoming as Marie Movie
3. 2026 The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping Upcoming as Drusilla Sickle Movie
4. 2026 LA BOLA NEGRA as Isabelle Durand 8.0 Movie
5. 2026 Animal Farm as Frieda Pilkington (voice) 6.3 Movie
6. 2025 Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery as Martha Delacroix 7.2 Movie
7. 2025 All's Fair as Dina Standish 5.0 TV
8. 2025 The Summer Book as Grandmother 7.0 Movie
9. 2025 Back in Action as Ginny 6.4 Movie
10. 2024 Brothers as Cath Munger 5.9 Movie
11. 2024 The Deliverance as Alberta Jackson 6.0 Movie
12. 2023 Heart of Stone as King of Diamonds 6.7 Movie
13. 2022 The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window as The Woman in Seat 2A (uncredited) 6.5 TV
14. 2021 Swan Song as Dr. Eve Scott 7.1 Movie
15. 2021 Four Good Days as Deb 6.8 Movie
16. 2020 Hillbilly Elegy as Mamaw 6.7 Movie
17. 2020 Tehran as Marjan Montazeri 7.5 TV
18. 2018 3Below: Tales of Arcadia as Mother (voice) 7.5 TV
19. 2017 Father Figures as Helen Baxter 5.8 Movie
20. 2017 Sea Oak as Aunt Bernie TV
21. 2017 The Wilde Wedding as Eve Wilde 5.1 Movie
22. 2017 Crooked House as Lady Edith de Haviland 6.4 Movie
23. 2017 What Happened to Monday as Nicolette Cayman 7.1 Movie
24. 2017 The Wife as Joan Castleman 7.1 Movie
25. 2016 The Girl with All the Gifts as Dr. Caroline Caldwell 6.6 Movie
26. 2016 Anesthesia as Marcia Zarrow 5.7 Movie
27. 2015 The Great Gilly Hopkins as Nonnie Hopkins 6.6 Movie
28. 2014 Guardians of the Galaxy as Nova Prime 7.9 Movie
29. 2014 5 to 7 as Arlene Bloom 7.1 Movie
30. 2014 Low Down as Gram 5.6 Movie
31. 2012 Casting By as Self 6.9 Movie
32. 2012 Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage) 7.5 Movie
33. 2011 Albert Nobbs as Albert Nobbs 6.3 Movie
34. 2011 Discovering Hamlet as Gertrude (archive footage) Movie
35. 2011 Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil as Granny (voice) 5.2 Movie
36. 2007 Damages as Patty Hewes 7.5 TV
37. 2007 Evening as Mrs. Wittenborn 5.8 Movie
38. 2007 The Graham Norton Show as Self 7.2 TV
39. 2005 Hoodwinked! as Granny (voice) 6.3 Movie
40. 2005 Nine Lives as Maggie 6.1 Movie
41. 2005 Heights as Diana 6.3 Movie
42. 2005 Tarzan II as Kala (voice) 6.1 Movie
43. 2005 The Chumscrubber as Carrie Johnson 6.5 Movie
44. 2004 The Stepford Wives as Claire Wellington 5.7 Movie
45. 2003 Le Divorce as Olivia Pace 4.9 Movie
46. 2002 The Safety of Objects as Esther Gold 6.5 Movie
47. 2002 The Shield as Captain Monica Rawling 8.2 TV
48. 2000 102 Dalmatians as Cruella de Vil 5.5 Movie
49. 2000 Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her as Dr. Elaine Keener (segments "This is Dr. Keener" and "Fantasies about Rebecca") 5.8 Movie
50. 1999 The West Wing as Evelyn Baker Lang 8.3 TV
51. 1999 Tarzan as Kala (voice) 7.4 Movie
52. 1999 Cookie's Fortune as Camille Dixon 6.4 Movie
53. 1998 Will & Grace as Fannie Lieber 6.9 TV
54. 1997 In & Out as Glenn Close (uncredited) 6.5 Movie
55. 1997 Air Force One as Kathryn Bennett 6.5 Movie
56. 1997 Paradise Road as Adrienne Pargiter 6.3 Movie
57. 1996 Mars Attacks! as Marsha Dale 6.4 Movie
58. 1996 101 Dalmatians as Cruella de Vil 5.9 Movie
59. 1996 Mary Reilly as Mrs. Farraday 5.8 Movie
60. 1995 Serving in Silence - The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story as Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer Movie
61. 1994 The Paper as Alicia Clark 6.6 Movie
62. 1993 The House of the Spirits as Ferula Trueba 6.9 Movie
63. 1990 Hamlet as Gertrude 6.6 Movie
64. 1990 Reversal of Fortune as Sunny von Bülow / Narrator 6.7 Movie
65. 1989 The Simpsons as Mona Simpson (voice) 8.0 TV
66. 1988 Dangerous Liaisons as Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil 7.2 Movie
67. 1988 American Experience as Self - Narrator (voice) 6.5 TV
68. 1987 Fatal Attraction as Alex Forrest 6.8 Movie
69. 1985 Jagged Edge as Teddy Barnes 6.3 Movie
70. 1984 The Natural as Iris Gaines 6.9 Movie
71. 1984 Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes as Miss Jane Porter (voice) (uncredited) 6.4 Movie
72. 1983 The Big Chill as Sarah Cooper 6.8 Movie
73. 1982 The World According to Garp as Jenny Fields 6.7 Movie
74. 1956 Tony Awards as Hillary Clinton TV
75. 1951 Hallmark Hall of Fame as Sara Everton TV

1. 2025 The Summer Book 7.0 Movie
2. 2021 Cruella 8.0 Movie
3. 2017 Sea Oak TV
4. 2011 Albert Nobbs 6.3 Movie

1. 2017 The Wilde Wedding 5.1 Movie
2. 1995 Serving in Silence - The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story Movie

1. 2011 Albert Nobbs 6.3 Movie

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