Glenn Close Highlights

  • 2009: Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (January)
  • 2007: Cast as ruthless litigator Patty Hewes in the FX legal drama, "Damages"; earned a 2008 SAG nomination for Best Actress in a Drama Series
  • 2005: Joined the cast of FX's "The Shield" in season four, playing the new captain of the Farmington precinct; earned Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for Best Actress in a Drama Series
  • 2005: Appeared in Rodrigo Garcia's "Nine Lives," an ensemble feature about nine short, loosely intertwining tales
  • 2004: Guest starring role as a potential Supreme Court justice on the NBC drama "The West Wing"
  • 2004: Cast opposite Nicole Kidman and Bette Midler in the remake of ''The Stepford Wives,'' Bryan Forbes' 1975 cult classic about upper-crust women being replaced by robots with sunny dispositions
  • 2003: Cast opposite Timothy Olyphant in "The Safety of Objects"; screened at Toronto Film Festival
  • 2003: Co-starred with Patrick Stewart in Showtime's remake of "A Lion in Winter," story by James Goldman; received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Actress in a Miniseries or Movie
  • 2002: Produced and starred in the TNT original movie "Rachel Carson's Silent Spring"
  • 2001: Portrayed Nelly Forbush in the small screen remake of "South Pacific" (ABC)
  • 2000: Reprised role of Cruella de Vil in "102 Dalmatians"
  • 1999: Starred as an eccentric Southerner in Robert Altman's "Cookie's Fortune"
  • 1999: Reprised role of Sarah in "Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End," the third installment for CBS and "Hallmark Hall of Fame"
  • 1997: Played the US Vice President coping with a hostage crisis involving the First Family in "Air Force One"
  • 1997: Delivered a delicately nuanced turn as a mother whose son has returned home to die in the HBO movie "In the Gloaming"; directed by Christopher Reeve; received another Emmy nomination
  • 1996: Portrayed Cruella de Vil in the live-action Disney film, "101 Dalmatians"
  • 1996: Cast as First Lady to Jack Nicholson's President in "Mars Attacks!"
  • 1995: Earned a Best Actress Emmy playing Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer who disclosed her lesbianism in NBC's "Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story"; also executive produced
  • 1994: Returned to the musical stage as Norma Desmond in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical version of "Sunset Boulevard"; first played the role in the L.A. production; chosen by Lloyd Webber to star in the Broadway version instead of Patti LuPone who originated the role in London; garnered third Tony Award
  • 1993: Reprised the role of Sarah in the sequel "Skylark" (CBS)
  • 1992: First Broadway role in six years, "Death and the Maiden"; co-starred with Richard Dreyfuss and Gene Hackman; won second Tony Award
  • 1991: Made cameo appearance as a male pirate in Steven Spielberg's "Hook"
  • 1991: First TV-movie as executive producer (also starred in the title role), "Sarah, Plain and Tall" on "Hallmark Hall of Fame"; received Emmy nomination
  • 1990: Cast opposite Jeremy Irons as Sunny von Bulow in "Reversal of Fortune"
  • 1990: Played Gertrude to Mel Gibson's "Hamlet"; directed by Franco Zeffirelli
  • 1988: Received fifth Oscar nomination and second as Best Actress playing the manipulative Marquise de Merteuil in "Dangerous Liaisons"
  • 1988: Associate produced first project (a documentary; also narrated), "Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?" for PBS, the "American Experience" series
  • 1987: Changed image by playing the psychotic Alex in "Fatal Attraction"; earned first Best Actress Academy Award nomination
  • 1985: First leading film roles, "Jagged Edge" and "Maxie"
  • 1985: Co-starred with William Hurt in the staging of the oratorio "Joan of Arc at the Stake" in NYC
  • 1985: Appeared on Broadway opposite Sam Waterston in "Benefactors"
  • 1984: Co-starred with Ted Danson in the ground-breaking ABC TV-movie about incest "Something About Amelia"
  • 1984: Returned to Broadway as co-star of Tom Stoppard's "The Real Thing"; directed by Mike Nichols and co-starred Jeremy Irons; won first of three Tony Awards
  • 1984: Dubbed Andie MacDowell's dialogue in "Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes"
  • 1984: Earned third Oscar nomination for her turn as Robert Redford's girlfriend in "The Natural"
  • 1983: Garnered second Academy Award nomination for "The Big Chill"
  • 1982: Played lead role in the Off-Broadway production "The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs"
  • 1982: Screen acting debut in "The World According to Garp"; received first of three consecutive Oscar nominations as Best Supporting Actress
  • 1980: Portrayed Charity Barnum in the stage musical biography "Barnum"; earned first Tony Award nomination; also appeared in the show's national tour
  • 1979: TV-movie debut in "Too Far to Go" (NBC)
  • 1976: Broadway musical debut as Mary Tudor in the Richard Rodgers-Sheldon Harnick show "Rex"
  • 1974: Joined Phoenix Theatre Company in NYC and made Broadway debut in their production of "Love for Love"
  • Father left to run medical clinics in the Congo (later Zaire) for Moral Rearmament when Close was 13
  • Recreated her Off-Broadway role in "Albert Nobbs" (lensed 2001); director Istvan Szabo's adaptation of the one-person stage play "The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs"
  • Began performing with repertory group, Fingernails, then toured country with conservative folk-singing group, Up With People for five years before college

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