Resurging in film, Close portrayed Cruella de Vil in 101 Dalmatians (1996) and its 2000 sequel, and voiced Kala in Tarzan (1999) and Granny in Hoodwinked! (2005) and its 2011 sequel. She received three additional Oscar nominations for her roles in Albert Nobbs (2011), The Wife (2017), and Hillbilly Elegy.
In 1987 Close was cast in the box office hit Fatal Attraction (1987) for which she portrayed deranged stalker Alex Forrest alongside costars Michael Douglas and Anne Archer.
She has appeared on Broadway with great success, both in musicals (Rex 1976, Barnum 1980, Sunset Boulevard 1994) and non-musicals (The Real Thing 1983, Benefactors 1985, Death and the Maiden 1992), garnering three Tony Awards®.
Close had her claim to fame in the 1980s. Close starred on the hit Drama series Damages (2007) for which she has won a Golden Globe Award and two Emmy Awards. In her career Close has been Oscar nominated eight times, won three Tonys, an Obie, three Emmys, two Golden Globes and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Meet Annie Starke, Glenn Close's lookalike TV chef daughter: the actress is besties with JFK's great-niece and Bruce Willis' daughter, starred on Netflix's Ratched, and hosts a cooking show in Montana.
What movie did Glenn Close play in with Michael Douglas?
Fatal Attraction is a 1987 American romantic psychological thriller film directed by Adrian Lyne from a screenplay by James Dearden, based on his 1980 short film Diversion. It stars Michael Douglas, Glenn Close, and Anne Archer.
"She always had a reputation as being able to sing," Vaccari said. "People have said that about Glenn Close, as well. People in the industry know they can sing.
Glenn Close holds the unfortunate record of being the actress with the most nominations and no wins. She has been nominated eight times since 1983; four were for supporting roles in The World According to Garp, The Big Chill, The Natural, and Hillbilly Elegy.
Catherine, princess of Wales (born January 9, 1982, Reading, Berkshire, England) is the consort (2011– ) of William, prince of Wales and heir apparent to the British throne. In 2022 Catherine became the princess of Wales, a title previously held by her mother-in-law, the late Princess Diana.
Is Glenn Close related to Marjorie Merriweather Post?
Close's grandfather, Edward Bennett Close, was once married to Marjorie Merriweather Post, heiress to the Post cereal fortune and mother to actress Dina Merrill.
Close was also paid handsomely for her TV work. She made $200,000 per episode on Damages, according to Celebrity Net Worth. Damages ran for five seasons, and nabbed Close an Emmy for her starring role.
In 1987 Close was cast in the box office hit Fatal Attraction (1987) for which she portrayed deranged stalker Alex Forrest alongside costars Michael Douglas and Anne Archer. For this role she was nominated for the Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Actress.
Close's engrossing portrayal of Alex Forrest, a suave single urbanite who by degrees descends ever deeper into full-on jilted-lover's madness, has become the stuff of horror-movie legend in the decades since Fatal Attraction first traumatized audiences in 1987.
The celebrated star paid tribute to someone very special on social media as he wished his good friend and Fatal Attraction co-star, Glenn Close, a happy birthday. In one throwback image, Michael had his arm draped around her as they appeared on set of the famous movie.
Glenn Close is Brooke Shields' second cousin once removed. Brooke's great-grandmother Mary Elsie Moore is the sister of Glenn's maternal grandfather Charles Arthur Moore Jr.
In the episode "This Sorrowful Life," Glenn asks Hershel for his permission to marry Maggie, and Hershel gives Glenn his blessing. Glenn then asks Maggie to marry him, and she says yes.
Calle Walton, a 24-year-old actress who has been Blind since she was 8 years old after being diagnosed with a rare and hard-to-detect cancer called germinoma, read Doerr's book and hoped it someday would get the Hollywood treatment.
