Close, Glenn (1947- )

US film and stage actor. She received Academy Award nominations for her roles as the embittered ‘other woman’ in Fatal Attraction (1987) and as the scheming antiheroine of Dangerous Liaisons (1988). She played Gertrude in Franco Zeffirelli's film of Hamlet (1990), an opera star in Meeting Venus (1991), and Cruella DeVil in 101 Dalmatians (1996) and 102 Dalmatians (2000).

Her first film was The World According to Garp (1982). Other screen appearances include The Big Chill (1983), Jagged Edge (1985), Reversal of Fortune (1990), and The Paper (1994). In the 1990s she also enjoyed a successful career on the stage appearing in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing, Michael Frayn's Benefactors, Ariel Dorffman's Death and the Maiden, and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Sunset Boulevard.