Glenn Close's biography

Glenn Close is 75 years old film actor born at Greenwich. She was born on Wednesday 19th of March 1947. She is often nicknamed as Glennie. According to year of birth 1947 she belongs to Boomers. Birthday on 19th of March means she is Pisces. Pisces is a Watery Sign. They are very intuitive people. They are empathic, emotional and highly spiritual in nature.

She is native english speaker. She is citizen of United States of America. Her primary profession is to be film actor. You can know her also as voice actor, film director, screenwriter, stage actor, television actor, actor. She is recently known as film producer.

Glenn Close's dad

Glenn Close's father's name is William Close. He is known as medical writer. Her father was born on Saturday 7th of June 1924 in Greenwich. Her father died on Thursday 15th of January 2009 in Big Piney. William Close was 62 years old, when this happened.

Glenn Close's mom

Glenn Close's mother's name is Bettine Moore Close.

Glenn Close's family

Glenn Close's spouse

Glenn Close's ex spouse

She has 1 daughter.

Glenn Close's daughter: Annie Starke

Glenn Close's daughter's name is Annie Starke. She is known as actor. Her daughter was born on Tuesday 26th of April 1988 in Bedford.

Glenn Close's schools

We found 3 schools She attended. Complete list of schools: College of William & Mary, Choate Rosemary Hall, St George's School in Switzerland.

Detailed informations about her schools

Graduated from the College of William and Mary with a BA in drama and anthropology, in 1974.

Glenn Close's career

Her main focus is to be film actor. You could see her also in Damages, Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story, The Wife and many more. She is also a member of Phi Beta Kappa Society.

Awards and competitions

Glenn Close's Awards

She received award for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for work Damages in 2008
She received award for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for work Damages in 2009
She received award for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for work Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story in 1995
She received award for Independent Spirit Award for work The Wife in 2018

Glenn Close's Rankings

Her chilling performance as Alex Forrest in Fatal Attraction (1987) was ranked #7 on the American Film Institute's villains list of the 100 years of The Greatest Screen Heroes and Villains.
Her performance as Alex Forrest in Fatal Attraction (1987) is ranked #36 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.

Glenn Close's Nominations

She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for work The World According to Garp in 1982
She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress
She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress
She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress
She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress

What Glenn Close has done for a first time

Is a half-first cousin many times removed of Catherine Parr, who was Queen of England and Ireland (1543-47), the last of King Henry VIII's six wives.
Her grandfather Edward Bennett Close was the first husband of Marjorie Merriweather Post, she thus has links to Dina Merrill .
In December 2019 Glenn moved to Bozeman (Montana) to be close to her three siblings. According to Glenn, it's the first time she's been in one place long enough to see the changing of the seasons over the course of a full year.

Glenn Close's Donations

On June 16, 2016, Close donated $75,000 to the Mental Health Association of Central Florida, in order to give counselling and help to victims of the Orlando nightclub shooting.

Glenn Close's quotes

I've often been mistaken for Meryl Streep, although never on Oscar night.
I never wanted to be a man. I feel sorry for them.
It's gotten out of control. It's taking bigger and bigger names to make smaller and smaller films. I worry that important films without a big name attached won't get made at all.
[on her 1984 Tony win for playing Annie in "The Real Thing"] It was the cherry on the cake for one of the great experiences of my career.
When I hear that somebody's difficult, I think, Oh, I can't wait to work with them.
Celebrity is death - celebrity - that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor.
The best thing I have is the knife from Fatal Attraction (1987). I hung it in my kitchen. It's my way of saying, Don't mess with me.
It is very difficult for girls. They're told to look one way, but to act another way.
It always amazes me to think that every house on every street is full of so many stories; so many triumphs and tragedies, and all we see are yards and driveways.
All great art comes from a sense of outrage.
What's so fascinating about people is what they don't show. People are masters at it; usually actors show too much.
Good live theater disturbs molecules. You create an energy source around yourself and it alternates between you and the audience. Anybody who sees live theater should come out a little rearranged.
I am extremely shy. I am not happy in crowds of people.
You have to love the characters you play, even if no one else does.
As an actor, I go where the good writing is. That's the bottom line.
Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That's basically what we do.
The word diva has a negative connotation. My definition of a diva is somebody whose talent does not match what they're trying to play, so all this temperament comes out.
We have to be vulnerable as actors, but we have to protect ourselves.
I get bored talking about myself, but I can talk about the work.
Good roles are hard to find no matter what age.
I think there are certain actors that have that kind of energy about them, that taking over a room energy.
I've been sacrificing my life for my work for 30 years, and now I want it the other way around. I want to find work that fits into my life and that would be based here.
[on Bette Davis] She wasn't trying to please people. She didn't say, "Love me." She had the courage to play unattractive characters with only the hope that people understand them in the end.
I don't have the body or the face for romantic comedies, so I've never been offered those. The challenge is that a lot of people see you only as your last character, so you're constantly competing with whatever your last movie was.
With the hugely talented women I've worked with or observed, it's not a question about temperament or ego; it's a question about getting it right. If they've got a reputation for being difficult it's usually because they just don't suffer fools.
I'm an actor, that's my contribution.
It puts you in a kind of a strange situation where everybody is looking at every little thing you do.
There's something about a catharsis that is very important.
[on the stigma of mental illness] Change a mind and you can change a life.
What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.
All your life you think 60 is ancient, and all of a sudden you find you're 60 and you don't really feel that different. I feel stronger and more engaged. This is the best time of my life.
A person can never really fail unless they give up.
It's not good to be in a situation where people don't want to direct you or don't want to question something.
Listen to that little voice that says, 'Mmm, I don't think so.' Because when you override that, you basically override who you are.
I don't live in Hollywood. I try to live a quiet life. I don't go out to a lot of events, and I don't go out buying a lot of clothes.
In some ways, gender should be irrelevant. It shouldn't matter who someone is connected to and finds love and a life with. I hope [full federal equality] will come to be a reality for the LGBT world.
I find it quite amusing that I can frighten children by just saying, 'puppies.' Usually they're disappointed I don't actually have black and white hair.
I love that I'm an honorary Doctor of Laws having just played a lawyer for five years.
My dad was a surgeon and a very high achiever, and being an actress probably isn't a career that he had thought for me. So he actually told me that I'd better learn shorthand as a backup. I took such a course during college and I was really bad at it.
Love makes no sense at all. But it's the most powerful and amazing force in the entire universe.
[on the process of making a good movie] Start with great writing, then surround yourself with people worth spending time with.
It makes me sad that I'll never play Juliet. But I don't spend much time thinking about it.
[on Fatal Attraction (1987)] People still come up to me and say, "You scared the shit out of me."
I always thought I was overweight. I look back and think I was a totally unfinished, insecure person. I was always morbidly shy outside of my family, and it's still pretty much my idea of hell to go into a room full of people holding cocktail glasses.
Without forgiveness, you just perpetuate what has been there before.
As an actress I've terrified men. And I've certainly terrified children. But I've yet to terrify women.
[on acting on stage] I inhale the audience and then I begin.
[on her character on Damages (2007)] Even though there is a huge entertainment quotient in the character of Patty Hewes, I am very psyched to play a woman who is unapologetic about her power and success.
It's best to not compare your career to anyone else's. You can put yourself through agony comparing yourself to someone else. You have to ultimately own your choices and know that that's your life and those are your choices.
You can't develop unless you take a risk. It's very healthy to be scared, I think you should do things that scare you on a regular basis.
Acting is something I always knew I could do. I always lived in a world of pretend as a child.
There's so many women in the world who feel powerless. So if you play a character who embraces power, as a woman, it's effective and I think for some people quite frightening!
I have known many gay people and they're some of my best friends. We all went through the AIDS scourge, I've lost many friends and I've always been highly sympathetic to the plights of the gay community.
Six degrees of separation, it's more like two in New York city.
[on playing Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard] I always felt like I was the weakest singer. I didn't have the fabulous voice that Elaine Page or Betty Buckley had, so it was daunting but I worked really really hard for this role.
[on marriage] Too many women define themselves in terms of a man. I think of men and women as two different species. Katharine Hepburn said they should live next door and visit each other once in a while. Not a bad idea.
When I did TV as a young actor, people said it would kill my movie career. But if it's great writing, why not do it?
An actor's goal is not to be interesting. That is the script's goal! Yours is to be truthful.
[on the lack of roles for older women in movies] It's definitely an aspect of Hollywood. Everyone wants f - -able women in their movies. In this culture, f - -able women are young and thin and up to maybe 34 or 35.
I think life is a series of difficult choices, and then life throws the inevitable curveball. I think more and more, getting through life is finding a sense of humor and being this wise person who laughs at everything.
[When asked if she's worried about getting good parts as she ages] No, because I am privileged, and I'm also working my ass off now. There's also so many other things I'm interested in right now.
I am really loving getting to the age where I have earned some gravitas in my profession, where I have learned my craft, and I am respected for that.
Oreos are my favorite. I pry them apart and scrape the cream out with my teeth and then eat the chocolate. I've loved them my entire life.
[when asked if there was a rivalry between her and Meryl Streep] Who can compete with 17 Oscar nominations? You've got to let it go. If I didn't, I would have combusted long ago.
[Asked if she regrets not having more children] I never thought about it much; I have a magnificent daughter. Having more would have been more of a challenge, and I wouldn't have wanted to be a single parent with more children.
Actors must maintain a child's appetite for mimicry, for demanding attention, and above all, for playing.
I've wanted to do a movie with Disney since I was seven years old. I was convinced that if I presented myself to Walt Disney and knocked on his front door that he would immediately put me in his movies.
TV and film used to be very different. I think the influence of the BBC and the emergence of HBO has certainly changed the landscape of American television and has pushed for higher quality programs.
We're all very good at survival. But many times, we sacrifice important parts of what it is to be human just to endure.
[on Katharine Hepburn] I had always admired her because she seemed to know who she was. In a profession where that's uncommon.
[on Jonathan Pryce] I was thrilled to work with Jonathan and I was very grateful he supported me in a movie called The Wife. We couldn't find an American actor who would do that.
I've played a number of characters that only reveal themselves when in full drag.

Glenn Close's body shape

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Glenn Close