Glenn Close

Coming from a wealthy background, Glenn Close grew up in Greenwich. His father, a renowned doctor, is the personal doctor of the President of Zaire, Mobutu Sese Seko. After a childhood obscured by her parents' membership in a sect, Glenn Close took refuge in the theater at the boarding school where she founded a troupe. At the age of 22, she decided to move away from her family and joined The College of William and Mary , a university where she continued her drama classes in parallel with her studies in anthropology. In 1974, having graduated, she moved to New York and made her television debut in 1975 in The rules of the game. Playing a lot in the theater,, then got his first Tony Award nomination thanks to the musical Barnum . She eventually won the Award in 1984 for her performance in The Real Things alongside Jeremy Irons. Subsequently, she won two more, in 1992 for Death and the Maiden , as well as in 1994 for Sunset Boulevard .

Glenn Close made a remarkable film debut in 1982 in The World According to Garp, for which she was directly cited for the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. The projects are then done more and more and she appears in particular in The Friends First, for which she is again nominated for the Oscars, and The Best, by Barry Levinson. But it is as unbalanced lover of Michael Douglas that she reveals herself to the general public in 1987 in Fatal Liaison by Adrian Lyne. Her performance is ranked seventh in the American Film Institute's villains list. She then continued with the no less striking role of the most famous of manipulators, Mme de Merteuil, in Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Stephen Frears, alongside John Malkovich in the role of Valmont, before turning in Le Mystère von Bulow by Barbet Schroeder. , for which she reunites with Jeremy Irons.

Chosen especially to embody serious characters, even dark, as in The House of the Spirits, or Mary Reilly, film where she finds Stephen Frears and John Malkovich, Glenn Close surprises by its comic potential in 1996 in Mars Attacks! by Tim Burton. And if the reaction is mixed for the film adaptation of 101 Dalmatians, all agree to salute the performance of the actress in Cruella, who has shown great creativity in the development of her character. But the dramatic register is still dominant, ranging from her role as an upstart niece in Robert Altman's Cookie's Fortune to that of a misunderstood mother in The Safety of Objects, including that of a female doctor taking stock of her life in What I know about her ... with a simple glance. During his career,

Since 2007, Glenn Close has played the title role of unscrupulous lawyer Patty Hewes in the hit series Damages, alongside Australian Rose Byrne. The program lasts until 2012. In 2009, she provides narration for the environmentalist documentary Home, before lending her voice the following year to the character of Granny Pucket in the animated film The Revenge of Little Red Riding Hood. In 2012, ironically, the one who recently declared: "I never wanted to be a man"stars as Albert Nobbs, in the role of ... Albert Brooks! Also a screenwriter and producer of the film, she actually plays a woman forced to disguise herself to be taken seriously in the still very patriarchal society of 19th century Ireland. For the occasion, she meets the director Rodrigo Garcia, under whose direction she had already shot in 2005 in Nine Lives.

On the bill of the unknowns Low Down, The Diplomat's Wife and Anesthesia, Glenn Close then plays Nonnie Hopkins in the family comedy The Fabulous Gilly Hopkins and slips into the skin of the main antagonist of the SF film Seven Sisters carried by Noomi Rapace . At the same time, she plays Nova Prime Irani Rael, leader of the NOVA Cohorts, in the two films devoted to the Guardians of the Galaxy.

Recognized actress, Glenn Close, since the beginning of her career, collected many honors: she has five Oscar nominations, nine Emmy Awards and nine Golden Globes. She has received two Emmy Awards, three Tony Awards and two Golden Globes. On January 12, 2009, she was even awarded the 2378th star of the famous Hollywood "Walk of Fame".