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Glenn Close on screen and stage

Glenn Close is an American actress, screenwriter and film producer with an extensive career in film, television, and stage work. She began her professional career in 1974 with a role in the stage play Love for Love and was mostly a stage actress in New York until the early 1980s. Her work included Broadway productions of Barnum in 1980 and The Real Thing in 1983, for which she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play.

Her film debut came in The World According to Garp (1982), which was followed by supporting roles in the films The Big Chill (1983) and The Natural (1984); all three earned her nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Close went on to establish herself as a Hollywood leading lady with roles in Fatal Attraction (1987) and Dangerous Liaisons (1988), both of which earned her nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

Close won two more Tony Awards for Death and the Maiden in 1992 and Sunset Boulevard in 1995. She won her first Primetime Emmy Award for the 1995 television drama film Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story, and she continued a successful film career with starring roles in Reversal of Fortune (1990) and Air Force One (1997), among others, and became even more widely known as a result of her portrayal as the villainous Cruella de Vil in 101 Dalmatians (1996) and its sequel 102 Dalmatians (2000). In 2003, Close portrayed Eleanor of Aquitaine in the television film The Lion in Winter, which earned her a Golden Globe Award. From 2007 to 2012 she starred as Patty Hewes in the television drama series Damages, which won her a Golden Globe Award and two Primetime Emmy Awards. In 2014, she returned to the Broadway stage, appearing in a revival of A Delicate Balance.^[1] During this period, she received two additional Best Actress Academy Award nominations for Albert Nobbs (2011) and The Wife (2017). She also won her third Golden Globe for her performance in The Wife. In 2020, she starred in Hillbilly Elegy earning her a fourth Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress (her eighth nomination in any category), making her one of the five most-nominated actresses in Academy history.

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