Glenn Close Bio, Age, Spouse, Daughter, Net Worth, Oscar & Wiki

About Glenn Close

Glenn Close is an American stage and film actress renowned for her characters as a psychotic stalker in the movie ‘Fatal Attraction’ and the smart and manipulative ‘Marquise de Merteuil’ in ‘Dangerous Liaisons’. She is one of the most talented actresses and is incredibly acclaimed for her choice of unorthodox appearances. Good looking with a high forehead and outstanding cheekbones, she has the classy looks to perform an evil seductress or a deranged aristocrat with the same elan. She started her acting career with a Broadway production and has functioned in a number of major shows and musicals.

She performed the character of Norma Desmond, a vanished actress of the silent film era, in the Andrew Lloyd Webber production of Sunset Boulevard winning the prestigious Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical. She made an easy progression to movies deriving an Academy Award nomination for her portrayal in her debut ‘The World According to Garp’. She quickly settled herself as a character actress and rose to fame with her portrait of the deranged ex-lover Alex Forrest in ‘Fatal Attraction’, an appearance for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She is also a crusader for social change and campaigns to wipe out the stigma surrounding mental illnesses.

Bio/Wiki

Birth Name	Glenda Veronica Close
Nick Name	Glennie
Age	(as in 2022) 75 Years
Religion	She is Non religious.
Sun Sign/Zodiac Sign	Pisces
Birth Place	Greenwich, Connecticut, United States
Date of Birth	19 March 1947 [1]wikipedia
Nationality	American
Residence	Bedford Hills, New York, United States
Home Town	Greenwich, Connecticut
Hobbies	Not Available

Physical  Stats

Height (Approx.)	in centimeters- 165 cm in meters- 1.65 m in feet inches- 5’5”
Weight (Approx.)	in kilograms- 58 kg in pounds- 128 lbs
Figure Measurements
Breast Size	35 Inches
Hips Size	36 Inches
Waist Size	25 Inches
Extra Ordinary Features
Race / Ethnicity	White (English, distant Scottish, German, Dutch, French, Welsh, and Swiss-German ancestry)
Hair Color	Blonde
Eye Color	Green
S*xual Orientation	Straight
Dress Size	Not Available
Shoe Size	Not Available

Family

Mother’s Name	Bettine Moore Close (Socialite)
Father’s Name	William Taliaferro Close (Ran a Clinic in the Belgian Congo and was a personal physician of Zaire’s ruler Mobutu Sese Seko)
Brother	Alexander Close
Sister	• Tina Close • Jessie Close
Others	• Tambu Misoki (Adopted brother from Africa) • Brooke Shields (Second Cousin) (Actress) • Edward Bennett Close (Paternal Grandfather) • Elizabeth Taliaferro (Paternal Grandmother) • Charles Arthur Moore, Jr. (Maternal Grandfather ) • Elizabeth Hyde (Maternal Grandmother) • Catherine Parr (Half First Cousin) (She was the Queen of England and Ireland (1543-1547) as the last and 6th wife of King Henry VIII)

Husband/Spouse	• David Evans Shaw (m. 2006, div. 2015) • James Marlas (m. 1984, div. 1987) • Cabot Wade (m. 1969, div. 1971) • Jack Roose (m. 1965, div. 1968)
Children	Son- None Daughter- Annie Starke (b. April 26, 1988)

Personal Life

School	• St. George’s School in Switzerland • Rosemary Hall (now Choate Rosemary Hall) in Wallingford, Connecticut
College/University	William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia
Educational Qualification	Graduated and double major in theater and anthropology
Profession	Actress, Singer, Producer
Brands Endorsed	• Amnesty International USA • Bring Change to Mind Public Service Announcement • Glenn Close Scotch • America’s Milk Processors
Career Manager	• Kevin Huvane, Agent, Creative Artists Agency, Los Angeles, California, United States • Catherine Olim, Publicist, PMK/HBH Public Relations, West Hollywood, California, United States • Loeb & Loeb, Legal Representative, Los Angeles, California, United States • Trillium Productions, Production Company, New Canaan, Connecticut, United States • MGMT Entertainment, Talent Management Company, West Hollywood, California, United States

Awards

N/A

Relationship & more

Affairs/Boyfriends

• Mark Metcalf • William Hurt • Kevin Kline (1970) • Len Cariou (1979-1983) • John Starke (1987–1991) • Woody Harrelson (1991) • Cam Neely (1992) • Steve Beers (1995-1999)

Favorite Things

Favorite Actress	Katharine Hepburn
Favorite Films	To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), A Man for All Seasons (1966)
Favorite Actors	Gregory Peck, Daniel Day-Lewis, Javier Bardem
Favorite Food	Chips
Favorite Color	Black
Controversies	None

Life Journey

Glenn Close was born on March 19, 1947, in Greenwich, Connecticut, into an upper-class family with a great history in the northeastern United States. She raised up with one brother, Sandy, and two sisters, Jessie and Tina.

Although her father, Dr. William Close, and mother Bettine Moore Close, were both born into elite societies, they did not raise Close and her siblings in that world. “My parents were real black sheep in Greenwich,” Close once disclosed. “The milieu was hugely social and very elite, and we had that as our tradition – my grandparents begun Round Hill Country Club. But we never raised in that kind of life. I’ve always been a little bit proud of that fact.”

In 1954, Close’s parents followed Moral Rearmament (MRA), a group with cult-like trappings that sent its members out into the world to change people to its brand of spirituality. When Close was 13, her parents shifted the family to the Belgian Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) to spread the word; Dr. Close also handled a clinic there.

Glenn Close rift her time in those years between Africa and boarding schools in Switzerland. She later joined the prep school Rosemary Hall back in Greenwich before attending the MRA-associated singing group Up With People, with which she traveled throughout Europe and the United States for four years.

Close broke away from the group at age 22 in order to attend the College of William and Mary, where she studied drama and anthropology.

Money Factor

Glenn Close has a net worth of $50 million dollars.

Estimated Net Worth in 2022 (Approx)	$50 million
Estimated Net Worth in 2021 (Approx)	Under Review
Annual Salary	Under Review
Income Source	Actress, Singer, Producer

On “Damages” Glenn earned $200,000 per episode. She appeared in 59 episodes which works out to around $12 million.

In 2020 Glenn sold a farmhouse property in upstate New York for $2.75 million. She had at one point been seeking $3.6 million for the property.

Movies And TV Shows

• After college, she shifted to New York and joined the Phoenix Theatre Company. She began her acting career with the Broadway play, ‘Love for Love’ in 1974. Initially, she liked doing the theatre so much that she did not think about going into movies, which she ultimately did.
• She made her Hollywood debut in 1982 with the comedy-drama ‘The World According to Garp’. She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role.
• She acted in ‘The Big Chill’ in 1983 and followed it with ‘The Natural’ in 1984 and ‘Maxie’ in 1985.
• In 1987, she was offered the role of Alex Forrest in ‘Fatal Attraction’ which was to become the first of the highly unconventional roles she often portrays.
• The highly acclaimed ‘Dangerous Liaisons’ followed in 1988 which established her talent for playing on-screen vamps.
• The decade of the 1990s proved very productive for her with movies like ‘Hamlet’ (1990), ‘Meeting Venus’ (1991), ‘The Paper’ (1994), and ‘Mars Attacks!’ (1996). Her most memorable role was as Cruella De Vil, the evil fashionista in ‘101 Dalmatians’ in 1996.
• Throughout the 1990s, she was also active in television, making appearances in shows like ‘Sarah, Plain and Tall’ (1991), ‘Skylark’ (1993), and ‘In the Gloaming’ (1997).
• She began the new millennium with ‘102 Dalmatians’ in which she reprised the role of Cruella De Vil. Her other movies for the decade include: ‘South Pacific’ (2001), ‘Le Divorce’ (2003), ‘Heights’ (2004), ‘Nine lives’ (2005), and ‘Evening’ (2007).
• Her television career in the decade was also very impressive. She appeared in ‘The Lion in Winter’ in 2004 and played the role of Patty Hewes in the highly successful series ‘Damages’ which ran for five seasons from 2007 till 2012.
• In 2011, she starred as a woman living as a man in ‘Albert Nobbs’, a drama film, reaffirming her penchant for choosing unconventional roles.

Movies List [2]IMDB
1982	The World According to Garp
1983	The Big Chill
1984	The Natural The Stone Boy Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
1985	Jagged Edge Maxie
1987	Fatal Attraction
1988	Dangerous Liaisons Light Years
1989	Immediate Family
1990	Reversal of Fortune Hamlet
1991	Hook Meeting Venus
1993	The House of the Spirits
1994	The Paper
1996	Mars Attacks! 101 Dalmatians Mary Reilly
1997	Paradise Road Air Force One
1999	Cookie’s Fortune Tarzan
2000	102 Dalmatians Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
2001	The Safety of Objects
2003	Le Divorce Pinocchio
2004	Heights The Stepford Wives
2005	Tarzan II The Chumscrubber Nine Lives
2006	Hoodwinked!
2007	Evening
2011	Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil Albert Nobbs
2014	Low Down Guardians of the Galaxy
2015	5 to 7 Anesthesia The Great Gilly Hopkins
2016	Warcraft The Girl with All the Gifts
2017	What Happened to Monday The Wilde Wedding The Wife Crooked House Father Figures
2020	Four Good Days
2021	Cruella
Yet To Be Released	Hillbilly Elegy Sunset Boulevard
TV Shows & Serials List
1975	Great Performances
1979	Too Far To Go Orphan Train
1982	The Elephant Man
1984	Something About Amelia
1988	Stones for Ibarra
1989–1992	Saturday Night Live
1991	Sarah, Plain and Tall
1993	Skylark
1995	Serving in Silence Inside the Actors Studio
1995–2019	The Simpsons
1997	In the Gloaming
1999	Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter’s End
2000	Baby
2001	The Ballad of Lucy Whipple South Pacific
2002	Will & Grace
2003	Brush with Fate The Lion in Winter
2004	The West Wing Strip Search
2005	The Shield
2007–2012	Damages
2015	Louie
2016	Family Guy
2017	Sea Oak
2018–2019	3Below
2020	Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time
Documentaries List
1988	American Experience
1990	Divine Garbo
1992	Broken Hearts, Broken Homes
1999	The Lady with the Torch
2003	In Search of the Jaguar What I Want My Words to Do to You A Closer Walk
2007	Gabon: The Last Eden
2009	Home
2010	Pax
2011	Not My Life
2012	Love, Marilyn
2015	Mind/Game: The Unquiet Journey of Chamique Holdsclaw
2016	Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
Stage Shows List
1974	Love for Love The Rules of the Game The Member of the Wedding
1976	Rex
1977	The Crazy Locomotive Uncommon Women and Others
1978	The Crucifer of Blood
1979	Wine Untouched The Winter Dancers
1980	Barnum
1981	Uncle Vanya
1982	The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs
1983	The Real Thing
1985	For No Good Reason/Childhood Joan of Arc at the Stake Benefactors
1991	Brooklyn Laundry
1992	Death and the Maiden
1993	Sunset Boulevard
1994	Sunset Boulevard
2002	A Streetcar Named Desire
2003	The Play What I Wrote
2006	Busker Alley
2010	The Normal Heart
2012	Into the Woods
2014	A Delicate Balance
2016	Sunset Boulevard
2017	Sunset Boulevard
2018	Mother of the Maid

Some unknown facts about

1. At the age of 7, her whole family joined a religious faith called “Moral Re-Armament” (MRA) which jolted her life till age 22, and after that, she broke free from the faith.
2. After 1960, her parents shifted to Africa for 16 years.
3. Growing up, Glenn spent her time alternatively between Africa where her father pursued and a boarding school in Switzerland.
4. The time of her birth is 2:12 PM EST.
5. Being in Greenwich for 12 originations, her family was one of the founders of the town in the late 17th century.
6. She was influenced in becoming an actress after watching Katharine Hepburn’s interview on The Dick Cavett Show.
7. She keeps all her costumes after the finishing of shooting and rents them for auction later on.
8. Her first Broadway work was Congrieve’s production “Love for Love” at The Phoenix Theatre.
9. All of Andie MacDowell’s dialogue in Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984), was dubbed by Glenn, as Andie had a heavy southern accent.
10. American Film Institute classified her as the #7 greatest villain for her work as Alex Forrest in Fatal
11. Her movie Attraction (1987) in the “100 years of The Greatest Screen Heroes and Villains” list.
12. Director Andrew Lloyd Webber restored Patti LuPone with Glenn in Sunset Boulevard before it made its introduction in Broadway in 1994.
13. Premiere Magazine listed her at #36 for her appearance as Alex Forrest in Fatal Attraction (1987) on their list of “100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time”.
14. She has been mistaken for actress Meryl Streep several times.
15. She is a enormous fan of the New York Mets and sang the national anthem at the Mets’ game in 2006 which also spot the 20th anniversary of Mets’ 1986 World Series win.
16. Her father was the chief doctor of the national army in Zaire and was actively engaged during the Ebola epidemic that troubled the country in 1976.
17. As a dog lover, she delivered as a periodic writer to Fetchdog.com, while, at home, she owns two Montana terriers named Bill and Jake.
18. Just 2 months after giving birth to her daughter Annie Starke, she came back to work so they could begin shooting Dangerous Liaisons (1988).
19. She initiated her film career much later, at the age of 35, her debut film being The World According to Garp (1982).
20. Glenn noticed her pregnancy when she was taken to a hospital for suffering a concussion after her head was smashed against a mirror during a re-shoot of Fatal Attraction (1987).
21. She is good friends with actress Rose Byrne with whom she acted in the series Damages (2007-2012).
22. On January 12, 2009, she gained a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
23. On June 13, 2013, she was certified with an honorary doctor of laws degree from Queen’s University.
24. Glenn is only 9 years older than Mel Gibson, yet, she performed his mother in Hamlet (1990).
25. She has a personal wig-maker named Martial Corneville, who has been around for more than 20 years.
26. She is a good friend with billionaire investor Warren Buffett, who is an avid fan of the drama series Damages (2007-2012).
27. Glenn disclosed that her audition for American Gigolo (1980) was her worst audition experience.
28. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).
29. Glenn has colluded with Disney Pictures numerous times including Hook (1991), Tarzan (1999), 101 Dalmatians (1996), 102 Dalmatians (2000), and Guardians of the Galaxy (2014).
30. She is allergic to tobacco.
31. During the filming of 101 Dalmatians, she smoked over 200 herbal cigarettes.
32. She is a spokesperson for the “Puppies Behind Bars” program, an organization where convicts train young dogs.
33. Glenn is the founder and chairperson for a US campaign regarding mental illness stigma named BringChange2Mind.
34. In 2009, she emerged in a commercial for BringChange2Mind.org with her sister Jessie Close who is bipolar.
35. Glenn donated $75,000 to the Mental Health Association of Central Florida to deliver counseling and help victims of the Orlando nightclub shooting that took place on June 16, 2016.
36. She is also an avid LGBT activist.
37. She also subsidized as a necktie designer for Stonehenge, Ltd‘s “Christopher Reeve Collection” where 4 percent of sales went to the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation.
38. Glenn has also performed as a producer and executive producer in films and TV movies like Sea Oak (2017), Albert Nobbs (2011), South Pacific (2001), The Ballad of Lucy Whipple (2001), and others.