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->''"Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That's basically what we do."''

Glenda Veronica Close (born March 19, 1947), better known as Glenn Close, is an American film, television and stage actor.

Throughout her long and varied career, she has been consistently acclaimed for her versatility and is considered by many to be one of the greatest actors of all-time.

She has won two MediaNotes/{{Golden Globe Award}}s, three MediaNotes/{{Emmy Award}}s, and three [[MediaNotes/TonyAwardWinners Tony Awards]], and received eight MediaNotes/AcademyAward nominations, making her the most-nominated living actor who has never won an Oscar.
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!!She appeared in:
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[[folder: Film]]
* ''Literature/TheWorldAccordingToGarp''
* ''Film/TheBigChill''
* ''Film/TheNatural''
* ''{{Film/Maxie}}''
* ''Film/FatalAttraction''
* ''Literature/DangerousLiaisons''
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gandahar}}''
* ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}''
* ''Film/ReversalOfFortune''
* ''Film/{{Hook}}''
* ''Film/JaggedEdge''
* ''Film/ThePaper''
* ''Film/AnneFrankRemembered'' (documentary, narrator)
* ''Film/MarsAttacks''
* ''[[Film/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians1996 101 Dalmatians]]''
** ''Film/OneHundredAndTwoDalmatians''
* ''Film/AirForceOne''
* ''Film/ParadiseRoad''
* ''Film/CookiesFortune''
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}''
** ''WesternAnimation/TarzanII''
* ''Film/{{Pinocchio|2002}}'' (English dub)
* ''Theatre/TheLionInWinter''
* ''Literature/TheStepfordWives''
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hoodwinked}}''
** ''WesternAnimation/HoodwinkedTooHoodVersusEvil''
* ''Film/AlbertNobbs''
* ''Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy|2014}}''
* ''[[Film/WarCraft2016 WarCraft]]''
* ''Film/TheWife''
* ''Film/CrookedHouse''
* ''Film/FatherFigures''
* ''Film/FourGoodDays''
* ''Literature/HillbillyElegy''
* ''Film/HeartOfStone''
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[[folder: TV]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', as Homer's mother, Mona, who abandoned her husband and son after a chemical warfare protest gone wrong. In most episodes (including an early one where Grampa Simpson tells Homer about how he knocked up a carnival worker before he married Mona), Maggie Roswell voices Homer's mother, and in "D'Oh-in In the Wind," Creator/TressMacNeille voiced her in the flashback of Mona taking Homer to Woodstock.
* ''Series/WillAndGrace''
* ''Series/TheWestWing''
* ''Series/TheShield''
* ''Series/{{Damages}}''
* ''WesternAnimation/ThreeBelow''
* ''Series/FindingYourRoots''
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[[folder: Theater]]
* ''Film/DeathAndTheMaiden''
* ''Film/SunsetBoulevard''
* ''Theatre/IntoTheWoods''
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!!Tropes associated with her work include:
* AndStarring: She's credited this way for ''Film/MaryReilly''.
* AssumedWin: The 2019 Academy Awards was seen as Close's absolutely "for sure" Oscar coronation. Her turn in ''Film/TheWife'' had won her a Golden Globe, Critic's Choice and Screen Actor's Guild award and over 90 percent of Oscar procrastinators picked her as the solid victor. Instead, in a stunning upset, Creator/OliviaColman took the Oscar for ''Film/TheFavourite'', who even apologized to Close during her speech. Even worse, Close was wearing a golden dress that night, which many believe was intentionally meant to make her look like an Oscar.
* AwesomeDearBoy:[[invoked]]
** She jumped at the chance to play a "Disney witch" when ''Film/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians1996'' came along.
** She signed on to do ''Film/MarsAttacks'' when she heard Jack Nicholson would be her husband, and she'd get killed by the falling Nancy Regan chandelier.
* CastTheRunnerUp:[[invoked]] She really wanted to play Meg in ''Film/TheBigChill'', but was offered the role of Sarah instead.
* CoolOldLady: In many of her later roles, she plays steely, tough but witty and charming older women. She's also very much this in real life as well.
* CreatorBacklash:
** Reporters at media junkets are told not to ask her about her time with the travelling singing group ''Up With People''.
** She's also not particularly happy about stigmatising mental illness with her role in ''Film/FatalAttraction'', and later helped set up a mental health charity. In fact, she's spoken about how she'd like to see a remake from Alex's perspective, and feels that she would not be seen as a villain.
* FakeBrit:[[invoked]] As both Cruella de Ville in ''Film/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians1996'' (where she patterned her voice off Joanna Lumley in ''Series/AbsolutelyFabulous'') and ''Film/MaryReilly''.
* LanternJawOfJustice: One of the few women in the entirety of the acting industry who has one...and pulls it off astoundingly well.
* LargeHam: She can ''really'' overact if she needs to and will gleefully leave teeth marks in the scenery when the opportunity presents itself, most notable in her role as [[Film/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians1996 Cruella De Vil]].
* MoneyDearBoy: Her on-the-record reason for playing Nova Prime in ''Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy|2014}}'', although she also said that [[AwesomeDearBoy she had fun]] with the role as well.
* PlayingAgainstType:[[invoked]] ''Film/FatalAttraction'' marked a departure for her, as most of her characters beforehand had been warm, motherly figures. Afterwards, she was often typecast as villains.
* UncreditedRole: Had a brief, uncredited cameo in ''Film/{{Hook}}''.
* WagTheDirector: A scene in ''Film/AirForceOne'' had Kathryn breaking down crying at one point. Glenn however felt that "my vice president" wouldn't, and would instead play the IronLady, so it was changed.
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