Glenn Close Bio | Wiki
Glenn Close is an American actress. Throughout her career spanning over four decades, she has garnered numerous accolades, including two Screen Actors Guild Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and three Tony Awards.
Additionally, Glenn has been nominated eight times for an Academy Award, holding the record for the most nominations in an acting category without a win. 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.
Glenn Close Age
Glenn was born on March 19, 1947, in Greenwich, Connecticut, United States. She is 75 years old.
Glenn Close Height
She is a woman of average stature and stands at a height of 5 ft 5 in (Approx. 1.65 m).
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Glenn Close Family
She was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, to her parents socialite Elizabeth Mary Hester “Bettine” and William Taliaferro Close. Glenn’s father was a doctor who operated a clinic in the Belgian Congo and served as a personal physician to its dictator Mobutu Sese Seko.
She has two sisters, Tina and Jessie, and two brothers, Alexander and Tambu Misoki, whom Glenn’s parents adopted while living in the Congo. During her childhood, Glenn lived with her parents in a stone cottage on her maternal grandfather’s estate in Greenwich.
Glenn Close Spouse
Glenn has been married three times, with each marriage ending in divorce. She first got married at the age of 22 and ended up before she attended college. This marriage from 1969 to 1971 was to Cabot Wade, a guitarist and songwriter.
She was married to businessman James Marlas from 1984 to 1987. Later, Glenn began a relationship with producer John Starke, whom she had met on the set of The World According to Garp.
Their daughter, Annie Starke, was born in 1988 and is an actress. They separated in 1991. In 1995, Glenn was engaged to carpenter Steve Beers, the two never married, and their relationship ended in 1999. In February 2006, she married executive and venture capitalist David Evans Shaw in Maine, but they divorced in August 2015.
Glenn Close Education
She spent time in Switzerland while studying at St. George’s School, and attended Rosemary Hall graduating in 1965. Glenn attended The College of William & Mary, double majoring in theater and anthropology.
During her senior year of college, Close became inspired to pursue a career in acting after watching an interview with Katharine Hepburn on The Dick Cavett Show. It was in the college’s theater department that Close began to train as a serious actor under Howard Scammon, William and Mary’s long-time professor of theater.
Glenn Close Movies | Tv Shows
2015 Louie
2016 Family Guy
2017 Sea Oak
2018–2019 3Below: Tales of Arcadia
2020 Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time
2022 The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window
2022 Tehran
2017 Crooked House
2017 Father Figures
2020 Four Good Days
2020 Hillbilly Elegy
2021 Cruella
2021 Swan Song
Glenn Close In Hook
Glenn had a cameo appearance as a pirate in Steven Spielberg’s Hook, a 1991 American adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by James V. Hart and Malia Scotch Marmo. It stars Robin Williams as Peter Banning / Peter Pan, Dustin Hoffman as Captain Hook, Julia Roberts as Tinker Bell, Bob Hoskins as Mr. Smee, and Maggie Smith as Granny Wendy.
Glenn Close Fatal Attraction
In 1987, Glenn played the disturbed book editor Alex Forrest in Fatal Attraction. The movie became a huge box-office success, the highest-grossing film worldwide of that year. The film propelled Glenn to international stardom and the character of Alex Forrest is considered one of her most iconic roles; the phrase “bunny boiler” has even been added to the dictionary, referring to a scene from the movie.
During the re-shoot of the ending, she suffered a concussion from one of the takes when her head smashed against a mirror. After being rushed to the hospital, she discovered, much to her horror, that she was actually a few weeks pregnant with her daughter.
Glenn Close Cruella | 101 Dalmatians
She portrayed the sinister Cruella de Vil in the Disney live-action hit 101 Dalmatians. Glenn’s role as Cruella de Vil was universally praised and earned her a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a comedy. The film was also a commercial success, grossing $320.6 million in theaters against a $75 million budget. As per Close’s contract, she is allowed to keep any costumes from her films.
Glenn Close Tehran
In 2022, Glenn starred in season two of the Apple TV+ thriller series Tehran, an Israeli spy thriller television series created by Moshe Zonder for the Israeli public channel Kan 11.
Written by Zonder and Omri Shenhar and directed by Daniel Syrkin, the series premiered in Israel on June 22, 2020, and on September 25 internationally on Apple TV+. Featuring dialogue in Hebrew, Persian, and English, the series follows an Iranian-Jewish Mossad agent on her first mission in Iran’s capital, which is also the place of her birth.
Glenn Close Net Worth
She earns her wealth from her career, therefore, she has amassed a fortune over the years. Glenn’s estimated net worth is $50 million.
Who Is Glenn Close
Glenn is a 75-year-old-old American actress. Throughout her career spanning over four decades, she has garnered numerous accolades, including two Screen Actors Guild Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and three Tony Awards.