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Over her lengthy prolific career she has received numerous accolades for acting including three Primetime Emmy Awards, three Tony Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards as well as nominations for two BAFTA Awards, three Grammy Awards and a Laurence Olivier Award.
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Academy Awards, USA. 2021 Nominee Oscar. Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role. Hillbilly Elegy. 2019 Nominee Oscar. Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role. The Wife. 2012 Nominee Oscar. Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role.
- The World According to Garp
- The Big Chill
- The Natural
- Fatal Attraction
- Dangerous Liaisons
- Albert Nobbs
- The Wife
- Hillbilly Elegy
Few actors garner Oscar recognition for their breakthrough roles, but Glenn Close did, with a Best Supporting Actress nomination for The World According to Garp. At age 35, Close co-starred as Robin Williams's mother, though she was only four years older than him. The movie offers interesting insights into two sides of the same coin: the perspectiv...
One year after The World According to Garp, Glenn Close joined The Big Chill's cast in what would be one of her most popular roles: Sarah Cooper, a sensitive young woman who let the past get over her head. In the film, seven college friends reunite after the funeral of Alex Marshall, whom Sarah had an affair with. Of all the talented actors in the ...
The Natural is a heavy drama based on the fictional life of Roy Hobbs, a mysterious baseball player who changes the game. The movie received four Oscar nominations, including Best Supporting Actress for Glenn Close, her third one in three consecutive Oscar ceremonies. The Natural would be just another movie about fictional baseball playersif weren'...
Close was 40 years old when she received her first Oscar nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role, for one of the year's most controversial contenders. In Fatal Attraction, Close plays a character considered one of the greatest villains in movie history: Alex Forrest, an unpredictable psychopath who turns her married lover's ...
Dangerous Liaisons delivered another twist in Glenn Close's career. She went from a dangerous stalker to a seductive marquise in a period drama. Different from her other movies, Dangerous Liaisons was designed entirely around her performance. Her character, the Marquise de Merteuil, pulls every string in the narrative, a self-contained woman who gr...
Twenty years after Glenn Close's nomination for Dangerous Liaisons, she returned to the awards game with a role playing a woman playing a man. In Albert Nobbs, Close is an Irish woman who decides to pose as a man to break free from the shackles of a conservative 19th-century society. Close nailed all the flaws and controversial idiosyncrasies of he...
With The Wife, Glenn Close again delivered an outstanding performance in a weak movie, being the primary reason why the movie received any attention at all. Because critics weren't head over heels for the film, there was a debate going on about whether Close would make it to the Oscars or not, but her SAG Award win sealed the deal for her, ensuring...
Glenn Close's career took a turn in the 2010s. While she remained an incredible actress, she took part in many projects that, unfortunately, weren't on her level, which explains why she would get nominated but never win. With her nomination for Best Supporting Actress for Hillbilly Elegy, Close became the most overdue actress in the Academy's histo...
Among her numerous accolades for her acting work, Close has earned three Primetime Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Tony Awards as well as nominations for eight Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, three Grammy Awards, and Laurence Olivier Awards.
Mar 15, 2021 · Long considered one of Oscar’s most overdue actresses, Glenn Close received her eighth career nomination on March 15, 2021. This bid marked her fourth for Best Supporting Actress, while the...
Close is a six-time Academy Award nominee, tying the record for being the actress with the most nominations never to have won. In addition, her work has earned her three Tonys, an Obie, three Emmys, two Golden Globes, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.