Glenn Close
Best known as a Leading Actress based on credits in that role in 16 films, with $918,854,349 worldwide aggregate box office (rank #272) |
Best-known acting roles: Irani Rael (Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2), Nova Prime (Guardians of the Galaxy), Kala (Tarzan), Vice President Kathryn Bennett (Air Force One), Cruella De Vil (101 Dalmatians) |
Best-known technical roles: Cruella (Executive Producer), Albert Nobbs (Screenwriter) |
Most productive collaborators: Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel, Kevin Feige |
Born: March 19, 1947 (77 years old) |
Career Summary
Movies | Domestic Box Office | International Box Office | Worldwide Box Office | ||
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As an Actor | Leading | 16 | $502,426,467 | $416,427,882 | $918,854,349 |
Supporting | 10 | $1,035,457,582 | $1,242,020,368 | $2,277,477,950 | |
Lead Ensemble Member | 9 | $413,365,431 | $401,864,639 | $815,230,070 | |
Narrator | 2 | $0 | $0 | $0 | |
Cameo | 1 | $63,826,569 | $19,400,000 | $83,226,569 | |
Inverviewee | 1 | $16,164 | $0 | $16,164 | |
(Unclassified) | 15 | $176,379,486 | $39,103,845 | $215,483,331 | |
In Technical Roles | Executive Producer | 1 | $86,103,234 | $139,706,829 | $225,810,063 |
Screenwriter | 1 | $3,014,696 | $5,524,307 | $8,539,003 |
Career Trend
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2018 Awards Season: Oscars: And the Winner is... Green Book for Best Picture
February 24th, 2019
It’s Oscar night and we will be live blogging the show. We will announce the winners and have our reactions as they happen, while keeping track of how our readers did in predicting the outcomes.
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Oscar Predictions: Roma Slight Favorite for Best Picture
February 24th, 2019
Voting has finished in our annual Predict the Academy Awards contest, and we can reveal who you, our readers, expect to win at the Oscars tonight. Roma tops the polls, both in the number of Oscars it’s expected to win, and as the favorite for Best Picture, but its win is far from a sure thing. It gets 67% of the vote for Best Picture, well ahead of any other film, but not enough for us to call the race at this point. Green Book is the second-favorite for Best Picture, with about 15% of the vote, and Black Panther third with 6%. Bohemian Rhapsody is favored by 5% of voters, and the list is rounded out with the true longshots: A Star is Born, The Favourite, BlacKkKlansman, and Vice, in that order, with those last four all getting less than 3% of the votes.
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2018 Awards Season: Oscars Nominations: Final Look
February 24th, 2019
It’s Oscar Day, and we will be live blogging the show. Before that, let’s take a last look at the nominations with a few annotations. in Italics are those that have received the most votes from our readers so far in our Oscar contest (which is open to new entries until noon, Pacific, today—enter now!). Bold films are those films I think will win. Meanwhile, those that are Underlined are those I want to win. Not all categories have underlined nominees, because not all categories have someone I’m cheering for, or because there are two nominees I couldn’t pick between. For example, I would be happy with half of the Best Picture nominees winning.
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2018 - Awards Season: Independent Spirit Awards - Winners
February 23rd, 2019
The Independent Spirit Awards nominations kicked off the 2018 Awards Season and the winners are announced just before the end. If Beale Street Could Talk only had three nominations, but it won all three awards. This could be a good Omen for tomorrow’s Oscar ceremony.
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2018 Awards Season: Oscar Highlight: Best Leading Actress
February 14th, 2019
With our annual Oscar Prediction contest underway, now is the best time to look at the nominees and try and figure out who the favorites are and which films should just feel honored to be nominated. This week we look at the four acting categories, ending with Best Lead Actress. In this category, there is an overwhelming favorite without an obvious runner up.
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Home Market Releases for January 29th, 2019
January 30th, 2019
We are still stuck in the dead zone on the home market, as it is too late for summer blockbusters, but too early for the major fall hits. The biggest first-run release of the week is The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, which says a lot. The best is The Wife, which earns our Pick of the Week. However, The Night is Short, Walk on Girl was a close competitor.
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2018 - Awards Season: SAG - Winners
January 28th, 2019
The Screen Actors Guild announced their winners on Sunday, and there are some surprises to talk about.
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2018 Awards Season: Oscar Nominations
January 23rd, 2019
The Oscar nominations were announced yesterday starting at just after 5 am Pacific time. They do this every year for reasons no one has been able to adequately explain to me. Because it was the day after a long weekend, it took a bit of time to get all the normal work done and digest the results. And there were some interesting results to digest. No one film led the way with total nominations, as two films, The Favourite and Roma tied with 10 nominations each.
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2018 - Awards Season: BAFTA - Nominations
January 12th, 2019
The BAFTA nominations were announced and The Favorite led the way with 12 nominations. Sometimes the BAFTAs are a really good indicator for who will do well on Oscar night. Other times their bias to British films is too much. I think this year will be an example of the latter and I don't think The Favourite is suddenly an Oscar favorite. That said, there’s still some things you can learn here.
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2018 - Awards Season: Golden Globes - Winners
January 7th, 2019
The Golden Globes were the first major Awards Season ceremony this year handing out the hardware on Sunday night. Are last night’s events a strong indicator for the Oscars? I hope not! Certainly not in all categories, as there were some puzzling results last night.
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The Wife Trailer
January 7th, 2019
Drama starring Golden Globe-winner Glenn Close will be released on video on January 29 ... Full Movie Details.
Joan Castleman is a highly intelligent and still-striking beauty—the perfect devoted wife. Forty years spent sacrificing her own talent, dreams and ambitions to fan the flames of her charismatic husband Joe and his skyrocketing literary career. Ignoring his infidelities and excuses because of his “art” with grace and humor. Their fateful pact has built a marriage upon uneven compromises and Joan’s reached her breaking point. On the eve of Joe's Nobel Prize for Literature, the crown jewel in a spectacular body of work, Joan’s coup de grace is to confront the biggest sacrifice of her life and secret of his career.
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2018 - Awards Season: SAG - Nominations
December 12th, 2018
The Screen Actors Guild were the third group to announce their nominations for this awards season. There’s not a lot of surprises on this week’s list. A Star is Born led the way with four nominations, while The Favourite was right behind with three.
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2018 - Awards Season: Golden Globes - Nominations
December 6th, 2018
The Golden Globes nominations are the second major Awards Season set to come out. It is still very early in the year and the predictive value of the Golden Globes is a little suspect, but there are still some things to learn here. For example Vice led the way with six nominations, so its Oscar chances have gone up, but don’t expect it to lead the way when the Oscars nominations are announced.
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2018 - Awards Season: Independent Spirit Awards - Nominations
November 17th, 2018
The Independent Spirit Awards nominations were announced on Friday and thus the 2018 Awards Season begins. We The Animals topped the list with five nominations, while A24 earned 12 as a studio.
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Theater Averages: Wife has a Blazing Hot Start
August 22nd, 2018
The Wife topped the theater average chart over the weekend with an average of $27,071 in four theaters. The film’s reviews are amazing and Glenn Close is earning some Oscar buzz, so perhaps it will stick around for a while. We the Animals was next with an average of $21,119 in three theaters. Blaze was also playing in three theaters earning an average of $14,750.
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Limited and VOD Releases: Dark Days for Limited Releases
August 17th, 2018
It’s a short week for limited releases, as it is an awkward time of year to release a film. It’s too late to take advantage of the summer holidays, while it is far too soon for Awards Season buzz. That doesn’t mean there are no films earning amazing reviews. In fact, there are several: Blaze, Minding the Gap, We The Animals, The Wife, and The Wild Boys. Hopefully at least one of them will find an audience in theaters.
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2017 Preview: December
December 1st, 2017
The box office was mostly as expected during November. Granted, Thor: Ragnarok over-performed and Justice League underperformed, but overall there were no real surprises. This means the month started slow, but we got a couple of wins in the end and that bodes well going into the final month of the year. That said, December is a weird month. There are five weekends, but only seven films that I’m sure are opening truly wide. Additionally, five of those seven films are opening Christmas weekend. I’ve never seen a month this lop-sided. There are no real wide releases the first two weeks of the month, so we will likely start slow again, but when The Last Jedi debuts, we should see explosive growth at the box office. It will open with more than any film last December made and that should help 2017 cut into 2016’s lead. 2017 won’t be able to close the gap entirely, but the month could do well enough to cut 2016’s lead to under $250 million. That’s my goal. If that happens, I will be happy.
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Featured Blu-ray Review: Tarzan
August 10th, 2014
By the time Tarzan came out, Disney's animation studio was off its recent peak and had been overtaken by Pixar as the king of animated films. Tarzan did manage to open in first place, but it was the most expensive animated film of all time when it came out, while its box office numbers were only good in comparison. Now that the film is coming out on Blu-ray, is it worth picking up?
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All Acting Credits
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Release Date | Title | Role | Domestic Box Office | International Box Office | Worldwide Box Office |
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2024 | Back in Action | ||||
Apr 30, 2021 | Four Good Days | Deb | $837,849 | $6,119 | $843,968 |
Nov 24, 2020 | Hillbilly Elegy | Mamaw | $38,852 | $38,852 | |
Jun 7, 2019 | The Lavender Scare | Narrator | |||
Aug 17, 2018 | The Wife | Joan Castleman | $9,599,982 | $9,131,427 | $18,731,409 |
Dec 22, 2017 | Crooked House | Lady Edith de Hav… | $3,286,395 | $3,286,395 | |
Dec 22, 2017 | Father Figures | Helen Baxter | $17,501,244 | $3,537,197 | $21,038,441 |
May 5, 2017 | Guardians of the Galax… | Irani Rael | $389,813,101 | $479,274,862 | $869,087,963 |
Feb 24, 2017 | The Girl with all the … | Dr. Caroline Cald… | $4,801,837 | $4,801,837 | |
Oct 7, 2016 | The Great Gilly Hopkins | Nonnie Hopkins | $67,054 | $67,054 | |
Jan 8, 2016 | Anesthesia | Maria | $26,799 | $35,121 | $61,920 |
Apr 3, 2015 | 5 to 7 | Arlene Bloom | $137,112 | $451,230 | $588,342 |
Oct 24, 2014 | Low Down | Gram | $52,337 | $52,337 | |
Aug 1, 2014 | Guardians of the Galaxy | Nova Prime | $333,714,112 | $437,168,283 | $770,882,395 |
Apr 5, 2013 | Love, Marilyn | Herself | $16,164 | $16,164 | |
Dec 21, 2011 | Albert Nobbs | Albert Nobbs | $3,014,696 | $5,524,307 | $8,539,003 |
Apr 29, 2011 | Hoodwinked Too: Hood v… | Granny | $10,143,779 | $13,209,332 | $23,353,111 |
Jun 5, 2009 | Home | Narrator | |||
Jun 29, 2007 | Evening | Mrs. Wittenborn | $12,406,646 | $478,928 | $12,885,574 |
Jan 13, 2006 | Hoodwinked | Granny | $51,386,611 | $58,456,779 | $109,843,390 |
Oct 14, 2005 | Nine Lives | Maggie | $478,830 | $1,100,000 | $1,578,830 |
Aug 5, 2005 | The Chumscrubber | Mrs. Johnson | $49,526 | $49,526 | |
Jun 17, 2005 | Heights | Diana | $1,158,405 | $10,000 | $1,168,405 |
Jun 11, 2004 | The Stepford Wives | Mrs. Wellington | $59,475,623 | $36,674,859 | $96,150,482 |
Aug 8, 2003 | Le Divorce | Olivia Pace | $9,074,550 | $3,910,939 | $12,985,489 |
Mar 7, 2003 | The Safety of Objects | Esther Gold | $319,125 | $319,125 | |
Dec 25, 2002 | Pinocchio | (voice - US version) | $3,681,811 | $28,000,000 | $31,681,811 |
Unknown | The Ballad of Lucy Whi… | ||||
Nov 22, 2000 | 102 Dalmatians | Cruella De Vil | $66,941,559 | $66,941,559 | |
Jun 16, 1999 | Tarzan | Kala | $171,091,819 | $277,100,000 | $448,191,819 |
Apr 2, 1999 | Cookie's Fortune | Camille Orcutt | $10,920,544 | $10,920,544 | |
Sep 19, 1997 | In & Out | Herself | $63,826,569 | $19,400,000 | $83,226,569 |
Jul 25, 1997 | Air Force One | Vice President Ka… | $172,956,409 | $142,311,944 | $315,268,353 |
Apr 11, 1997 | Paradise Road | Adrienne Pargiter | $1,990,257 | $1,990,257 | |
Dec 13, 1996 | Mars Attacks! | Marsha Dale | $37,771,017 | $63,600,000 | $101,371,017 |
Nov 27, 1996 | 101 Dalmatians | Cruella De Vil | $136,189,294 | $168,010,706 | $304,200,000 |
Feb 23, 1996 | Mary Reilly | Mrs. Farraday | $5,707,094 | $7,192,906 | $12,900,000 |
Feb 22, 1996 | Anne Frank Remembered | Diary Readings (v… | $606,713 | $606,713 | |
Apr 1, 1994 | The House of the Spirits | Ferula | $6,217,413 | $6,217,413 | |
Mar 18, 1994 | The Paper | Alicia Clark | $36,768,310 | $9,600,000 | $46,368,310 |
Dec 11, 1991 | Hook | Gutless | $119,654,823 | $181,200,000 | $300,854,823 |
1991 | Meeting Venus | $1,000,348 | $1,000,348 | ||
Dec 19, 1990 | Hamlet | Gertrude | $20,710,451 | $1,783,276 | $22,493,727 |
Oct 17, 1990 | Reversal of Fortune | Sunny von Bülow/N… | $15,445,131 | $15,445,131 | |
Oct 27, 1989 | Immediate Family | Linda Spector | $5,841,286 | $5,841,286 | |
Dec 21, 1988 | Dangerous Liaisons | Marquise Isabelle… | $34,700,000 | $34,700,000 | |
Jan 28, 1988 | Gandahar | $370,698 | $370,698 | ||
Sep 18, 1987 | Fatal Attraction | Alex Forrest | $156,645,693 | $163,454,304 | $320,099,997 |
Oct 4, 1985 | Jagged Edge | Teddy Barnes | $40,491,165 | $40,491,165 | |
Sep 27, 1985 | Maxie | Jan/Maxie | $2,600,000 | $2,600,000 | |
May 11, 1984 | The Natural | Iris Gaines | $47,951,979 | $47,951,979 | |
Mar 30, 1984 | Greystoke: The Legend … | Voice of Jane Porter | $45,900,000 | $45,900,000 | |
Sep 28, 1983 | The Big Chill | Sarah Cooper | $56,077,501 | $77 | $56,077,578 |
Jul 23, 1982 | The World According to… | Jenny Fields | $30,207,324 | $30,207,324 | |
Averages | $47,640,689 | $68,348,927 | $86,205,769 | ||
Totals | 54 | $2,191,471,699 | $2,118,816,734 | $4,310,288,433 |
Leading or Lead Ensemble Roles
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Release Date | Title | Opening Weekend | Maximum Theaters | Domestic Box Office | Worldwide Box Office | Domestic Share |
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Apr 30, 2021 | Four Good Days | $298,358 | 489 | $837,849 | $843,968 | 99.3% |
Nov 24, 2020 | Hillbilly Elegy | $38,852 | ||||
Aug 17, 2018 | The Wife | $108,284 | 541 | $9,599,982 | $18,731,409 | 51.3% |
Dec 22, 2017 | Father Figures | $3,287,451 | 2,902 | $17,501,244 | $21,038,441 | 83.2% |
Dec 22, 2017 | Crooked House | $3,286,395 | ||||
Feb 24, 2017 | The Girl with all the … | $4,801,837 | ||||
Oct 7, 2016 | The Great Gilly Hopkins | $67,054 | ||||
Dec 21, 2011 | Albert Nobbs | 245 | $3,014,696 | $8,539,003 | 35.3% | |
Apr 29, 2011 | Hoodwinked Too: Hood v… | $4,108,630 | 2,505 | $10,143,779 | $23,353,111 | 43.4% |
Jan 13, 2006 | Hoodwinked | $12,401,900 | 3,020 | $51,386,611 | $109,843,390 | 46.8% |
Jun 17, 2005 | Heights | $52,885 | 66 | $1,158,405 | $1,168,405 | 99.1% |
Jun 11, 2004 | The Stepford Wives | $21,406,781 | 3,057 | $59,475,623 | $96,150,482 | 61.9% |
Mar 7, 2003 | The Safety of Objects | $86,250 | 43 | $319,125 | $319,125 | 100.0% |
Nov 22, 2000 | 102 Dalmatians | $19,883,351 | 2,704 | $66,941,559 | $66,941,559 | 100.0% |
Jun 16, 1999 | Tarzan | $34,221,968 | 3,131 | $171,091,819 | $448,191,819 | 38.2% |
Apr 2, 1999 | Cookie's Fortune | $186,828 | 559 | $10,920,544 | $10,920,544 | 100.0% |
Dec 13, 1996 | Mars Attacks! | $9,384,272 | 1,955 | $37,771,017 | $101,371,017 | 37.3% |
Nov 27, 1996 | 101 Dalmatians | $33,504,025 | 2,901 | $136,189,294 | $304,200,000 | 44.8% |
Mar 18, 1994 | The Paper | 1,577 | $36,768,310 | $46,368,310 | 79.3% | |
Dec 19, 1990 | Hamlet | 525 | $20,710,451 | $22,493,727 | 92.1% | |
Oct 17, 1990 | Reversal of Fortune | 661 | $15,445,131 | $15,445,131 | 100.0% | |
Oct 27, 1989 | Immediate Family | $1,675,344 | 836 | $5,841,286 | $5,841,286 | 100.0% |
Sep 18, 1987 | Fatal Attraction | $7,602,740 | 1,401 | $156,645,693 | $320,099,997 | 48.9% |
May 11, 1984 | The Natural | $5,088,381 | 1,012 | $47,951,979 | $47,951,979 | 100.0% |
Sep 28, 1983 | The Big Chill | $3,662,152 | 832 | $56,077,501 | $56,077,578 | 100.0% |
Averages | $9,232,918 | 1,474 | $43,609,138 | $69,363,377 | 74.3% | |
Totals | 25 | $915,791,898 | $1,734,084,419 |
Supporting Roles
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Release Date | Title | Opening Weekend | Maximum Theaters | Domestic Box Office | Worldwide Box Office | Domestic Share |
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May 5, 2017 | Guardians of the Galax… | $146,510,104 | 4,347 | $389,813,101 | $869,087,963 | 44.9% |
Jan 8, 2016 | Anesthesia | $6,747 | 7 | $26,799 | $61,920 | 43.3% |
Apr 3, 2015 | 5 to 7 | $18,006 | 27 | $137,112 | $588,342 | 23.3% |
Oct 24, 2014 | Low Down | $7,000 | 8 | $52,337 | $52,337 | 100.0% |
Aug 1, 2014 | Guardians of the Galaxy | $94,320,883 | 4,088 | $333,714,112 | $770,882,395 | 43.3% |
Jun 29, 2007 | Evening | $3,501,971 | 979 | $12,406,646 | $12,885,574 | 96.3% |
Oct 14, 2005 | Nine Lives | $28,387 | 33 | $478,830 | $1,578,830 | 30.3% |
Jul 25, 1997 | Air Force One | $37,132,505 | 2,981 | $172,956,409 | $315,268,353 | 54.9% |
Apr 1, 1994 | The House of the Spirits | $6,217,413 | $6,217,413 | 100.0% | ||
Dec 11, 1991 | Hook | $13,522,535 | 2,254 | $119,654,823 | $300,854,823 | 39.8% |
Averages | $32,783,126 | 1,636 | $103,545,758 | $227,747,795 | 57.6% | |
Totals | 10 | $1,035,457,582 | $2,277,477,950 |
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All Technical Credits
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Release Date | Title | Role | Domestic Box Office | International Box Office | Worldwide Box Office |
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May 28, 2021 | Cruella | Executive Producer | $86,103,234 | $139,706,829 | $225,810,063 |
Dec 21, 2011 | Albert Nobbs | Screenwriter | $3,014,696 | $5,524,307 | $8,539,003 |
Averages | $44,558,965 | $72,615,568 | $117,174,533 | ||
Totals | 2 | $89,117,930 | $145,231,136 | $234,349,066 |
Writer Credits
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Release Date | Title | Opening Weekend | Maximum Theaters | Domestic Box Office | Worldwide Box Office | Domestic Share |
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Dec 21, 2011 | Albert Nobbs | 245 | $3,014,696 | $8,539,003 | 35.3% | |
Averages | n/a | 245 | $3,014,696 | $8,539,003 | 35.3% | |
Totals | 1 | $3,014,696 | $8,539,003 |
Latest Ranking on All Technical Box Office Record Lists
Record | Rank | Amount |
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Top Grossing Executive Producer at the Domestic Box Office (Rank 1,501-1,600) | 1,593 | $86,103,234 |
Top Grossing Screenwriter at the Domestic Box Office (Rank 5,101-5,200) | 5,131 | $3,014,696 |
Top Grossing Executive Producer at the International Box Office (Rank 1,201-1,300) | 1,245 | $139,706,829 |
Top Grossing Screenwriter at the International Box Office (Rank 3,601-3,700) | 3,645 | $5,524,307 |
Top Grossing Executive Producer at the Worldwide Box Office (Rank 1,301-1,400) | 1,362 | $225,810,063 |
Top Grossing Screenwriter at the Worldwide Box Office (Rank 4,901-5,000) | 5,000 | $8,539,003 |