Glenn Close made her film debut in 1982 as Jenny Fields in John Irving’s The World According to Garp, for which she received an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress, followed by further Best Supporting Oscar nominations for The Big Chill and The Natural. She then starred opposite Jeff Bridges in Jagged Edge, and in 1987 played Alex Forrest in Fatal Attraction, a role which garnered her a fourth Academy Award nomination this time for Best Actress. The following year, Ms. Close received another Oscar nomination for Best Actress in recognition of her subtly crafted characterization of the Marquise de Merteuil in Dangerous Liaisons. Her other films include: Hamlet; Reversal of Fortune; The House of the Spirits; The Stone Boy; Meeting Venus; The Paper; Mars Attacks!; Paradise Road; Air Force One; Cookie’s Fortune; Things You Can Tell Just By Looking at Her; Maxie; Immediate Family; The Safety of Objects; Tarzan; Le Divorce; 101 Dalmations (Golden Globe ; The Chumscrubber; Nine Lives, and Heights.
 
Ms. Close’s latest role on the big screen is in Evening (June 2007), an ensemble drama co-starring Meryl Streep and Toni Collette.

In fall 2007, Ms. Close returns to television in her new f/x original series Damages. She portrays Patty Hewes, a powerful litigator who tries high-stake cases in New York. Damages will premiere on f/x on July 24. In 2005, Ms. Close joined the cast of FX’s groundbreaking TV drama The Shield as Captain Monica Rawling, and received an Emmy® Nomination for her work. In 2003, Ms. Close starred with Patrick Stewart in The Lion in Winter, a special miniseries presentation by director Andrei Konchalovsky for Showtime / Hallmark Entertainment. For her performance as Eleanor of Aquitaine in the miniseries, she was nominated for an Emmy® and won both a SAG Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. Close served as executive producer and won an Emmy Award for her 1995 performance as Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer in Serving in Silence, which also garnered her a Peabody Award and Golden Globe nomination. She has received five additional Emmy nominations for roles in the telefilms In the Gloaming, directed by Christopher Reeve (for which she also earned a Screen Actors’ Guild Award nomination and a Cable Ace Award); Something About Amelia; Sarah, Plain and Tall (as executive producer, she also received Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for Best Made for Television Movie); Skylark – the second telefilm in the Sarah trilogy, which she also executive produced – and for a guest-starring role in the comedy series Will and Grace. Other television starring/executive producer credits include Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific and The Ballad of Lucy Whipple. Ms. Close served as executive producer on Journey, for Hallmark Hall of Fame, and Baby, for TNT. She associate produced: Broken Hearts, for Lifetime, and Do You Mean There Are Still Cowboys? for The American Experience on PBS. Other TV appearances include Stones of Ibarra, Brush With Fate, and Andrew Llyod Webber: The Royal Albert Hall Celebration, in which she was featured. She has also made guest appearances on Ellen and on The Simpsons, as Homer’s mom. Ms Close was recently seen in HBO’s Strip Search, directed by Sidney Lumet.

Glenn Close made her professional theater and Broadway debut with the New Phoenix Repertory Company in Love for Love in 1974. In 1980 she was first nominated for a Tony Award for her role in the Broadway musical Barnum, and went on to win Tonys for performances in The Real Thing and Death and the Maiden, both directed by Mike Nichols. She also won a Tony, a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award, and a Drama-Logue Award for her performance as Norma Desmond in Andrew Lloyd Weber’s Sunset Boulevard. Her other theatre work includes: The Singular Life of Albert Knobbs (for which she won an Obie); Childhood; Joan of Arc at the Stake; Benefactors; Brooklyn Laundry; Uncommon Women and Others; Rex; Uncle Vanya; The Member of the Wedding; Rules of the Game; King Lear; The Crucifer of Blood; and The Rose Tatoo. In 2002, Ms. Close appeared as Blanche DuBois in Trevor Nunn’s production of A Streetcar Named Desire at the Royal National Theater in London.

Ms. Close received a Crystal Award for Women in Film in 2001 for her distinguished acting career. In 2003, she received an IFP Gotham Award for her significant contributions to the New York independent filmmaking community. Ms. Close is a Trustee of The Sundance Institute, a position she has held for 15 years. She is on the Board of Trustees of the Wildlife Conservation Society, and actively supports the Riverkeeper Alliance.

Awards & Honors:

Academy Award Nominations
Best Actress — Dangerous Liaisons
Best Actress — Fatal Attraction
Best Supporting Actress — The Natural
Best Supporting Actress — The Big Chill
Best Supporting Actress — The World According to Garp

Emmy Award
1995 Emmy Award: Lead Actress/ Miniseries — Serving in Silence

Golden Globe
2005 Golden Globe Award: Best Actress/ Miniseries — The Lion in Winter

Tony Awards
1984 Best Actress/ Play — The Real Thing
1992 Best Actress/ Play — Death and the Maiden
1995 Best Actress/ Musical — Sunset Boulevard

Other Awards
1988 Peoples Choice Award — Favorite Motion Picture Actress
1992 Golden Camera/ Germany — Best International Actress
2005 Screen Actors Guild Award/ Oustanding Actress, Television — The Lion in Winter